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Volume 20 - Issue 4 - October 1976

Book Reviews

John Emery Murdoch and Edith Dudley Sylla (editors), The cultural context of medieval learning, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 566, $49.00 ($28.00 paperback).

Otto Mazal, Eva Irblich and István Németh, Wissenschaft im Mittelalter: Austellung von Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, 1975, pp. 296, illus., [no price stated].

Karl E. Rothschuh (editor), Was ist Krankheit? Erscheinung, Erklarung, Sinnegebung, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1975, 8vo, pp. vii, 492, [no price stated].

Rowland Ryder, Edith Cavell, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 278, illus., £4.95.

Richard D. French, Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. [xiii], 452, illus., £10.50, (£4.95 paperback).

Owen Gingerich (editor), The nature of scientific discovery, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975, 8vo, pp.616, illus., $15.00.

Michael Sanderson (editor), The universities in the nineteenth century, London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 262, £5.25.

S. K. Hamarneh, Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine andpharmacy at the British Library, Cairo, Les Editions Universitaires d'Egypte, 1975, pp. I–XVI +pp. 1–276 +fig. 1–15 +pp. 1–16 (Arabic), $8.00.

John G. Howells (editor), World history of psychiatry, London, Bailliere Tindall, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxv, 770, illus., £14.50.

Shevawn Lynam, Humanity Dick. A biography of Richard Martin, M.P. 1754–1834, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975, 8vo, pp. xvii, 300, illus., £5.95.

Esther Fischer-Homberger, Geschichte der Medizin (Heidelberger Taschenbuicher,Basistext Medizin), Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, Springer-Verlag, 1975, pp. viii, 213, illus., [no price stated].

The influence of early Enlightenment thought upon German classical science and letters, New York, Science History Publications, 1972, pp. xii, 47, illus., $3.00.

Brian Watkin, Documents on health and social services, 1834 to the present day, London, Methuen, 1975, 8vo, pp. xi, 468, £10.00 (£5.50 paperback).

Walter I. Trattner, From Poor Law to welfare state; a history ofsocial welfare in America, London, Collier Macmillan, 1974, 8vo, pp. xii, 276, £4.50.

John D. Thompson and Grace Goldin, The hospital; a social and architectural history, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975, 4to, pp. xxviii, 349, illus., £13.75.

L. R. Lind, Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translations, documents, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1975, 4to, pp. [ix], 344, illus., $18.00.

Brian Inglis, The forbidden game. A social history of drugs, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1975, 8vo, pp. 256, illus., £4.95.

Hans A. Krebs and Julian H. Shelley, The creative process in science and medicine, Amsterdam, Excerpta Medica; New York, American Elsevier, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 138, $21.75 (paperback).

Mary P. Weideman (editor), Microcirculation, Stroudsburg, Penn., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1974, 4to, pp. xi, 429, illus., £13.90.

James V. Warren (editor), Cardiovascular physiology, Stroudsburg, Penn., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1975, 8vo, pp. xviii, 441, illus., £17.45.

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