Book reviewed in this article:Blood and Nerves: An Ethnographic Focus on Menopause. Dona Lee Davis.Handbook of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Lorraine Dennerstein and Graham D. BurrowsThe Young Woman: Psychosomatic Aspects of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Lorraine Dennerstein and Myriam De SenarclensBeyond Sixty‐Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past. Carol Haber.Age or Need?: Public Policies for Older People. Bernice L NeugartenChronic Pain: Its Social Dimensions. Joseph A. Kotarba.Women and the Psychiatric Paradox. P. Susan Penfold and Gillian A. Walker.Sorcerers and Healing Spirits: Continuity and Change in an Aboriginal Medical System. Janice Reid.Having Epilepsy: The Experience and Control of Illness. Joseph W. Schneider and Peter Conrad.Mental Health and Aging: Programs and Evaluations. Michael A. Smyer and Margaret GatzHealth in the Guatemalan Highlands. Ulli Steltzer.Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria. Michael Watts.Poppies, Pipes, and People: Opium and Its Uses in Laos. Joseph Westermeyer.