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Volume 27 - 1983

Book Review

Geoffrey Holmes, Augustan England. Professions, state, and society, 1680–1730, London, Allen & Unwin, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 332, £18.50.

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Robert Castel, Francoise Castel, and Anne Lovell, The psychiatric society, trans. by A. Goldhammer, New York, and Guildford, Surrey, Columbia University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 358, $32.40.

Eric Harth, Windows on the mind. Reflections on the physical basis of consciousness, Brighton, Harvester Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. 285, illus., £9.95.

Lydie Boulle M.D. Grmek Catherine Lupovici, and Janine Samioncontet, Laennec. Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques, Paris, Masson, 1982, 4to, pp. vi, 316, Fr. 200.00.

James C. Whorton, Crusaders for fitness. The history of American health reformers, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1982, (reprint of 1942 ed.), 8vo, pp. xi, 359, illus., £14.60.

L. Szyfman, Lamarck et son époque, Paris, Masson, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 449, Fr. 150.00.

Reinhard Spree, Soziale Ungleichheit vor Krankheit und Tod. Zur Socialgeschichte des Gesundheitsbereichs im Deutschen Kaiserreich, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981, 8vo, pp. 208, DM. 17.80 (paperback).

Murray Levine, The history and politics of community mental health, Oxford University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. 232, £11.00.

J. M. Tanner, A history of the study ofhuman growth, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 499, £30.00.

K. David Patterson. Health in Colonial Ghana: disease, medicine, and socio-economic change, 1900–1955, Waltham, Mass., Crossroads Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xiv, 187, [no price stated].

George Qvist, John Hunter 1728–1793, London, Heinemann Medical Books, 1981, 8vo, pp. xvi, 216, front., £8.50.

Peta Allan and Moya Jolley (editors), Nursing, midwifery and health visiting since 1900, London, Faber & Faber, 1982, 8vo, pp. 316, £7.95 (£4.95 paperback).

L. C. Palm and H. A. M. Snelders (editors), Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1982, 8vo, pp. 212, illus., Dfl. 50.00 (paperback).

Georges Didi-Huberman, Invention de l'hystiérie. Charcot et l'iconographie photographique de la Salpêtriiere, Paris, Editions Macula, 1982, 8vo, pp. 303, illus., Fr. 1 10.00 (paperback).

F. B. Smith, Florence Nightingale. Reputation and power, London, Croom Helm, 1982, 8vo, pp. 216, £12.95.

Lloyd G. Stevenson (editor), A celebration of medical history, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. vi, 228, illus., £12.75.

William B. Bean, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95.

Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine, Three hundred years of psychiatry 1535–1860, [reprint], Hartsdale, NY, Carlisle Publishing Inc., 1982, 8vo, pp. xxvi, 1107, illus., $95.00.

W. D. A. Smith, Under the influence. A history of nitrous oxide and oxygen anaesthesia, London, Macmillan, 1982, 4to, pp. xxix, 188, illus., £12.00.

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