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Volume 27 - 1983

Book Review

James R. Jacob, Henry Stubbe, radical Protestantism and the early Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 222, £19.50.

P. Wright and A. Treacher (editors), The problem of medical knowledge. Examining the social construction of medicine, Edinburgh University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 232, £ 12.00 (paperback).

Nancy Stepan, The idea ofrace in science: Great Britain, 1800–1960, London, Macmillan, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxi, 230, £20.00.

Francis Schiller, A Möbius strip. Fin-de-siècle neuropsychiatry and Paul Möbius, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. [viii], 134, front., £12.00.

Janet Browne, The secular ark. Studies in the history of biogeography, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 273, illus., £21.00.

Richard Y. Meier (compiler), The Joseph H. Kiefer catalog of history of urology and medicine, Chicago, Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 207, illus., $25.00 ($ 10.00 paperback).

Dieter Oldenburg, Romantische Naturphilosophie und Arzneimittellehre 1800–1840, (Veroffentlichungen aus dem Pharmaziegeschichtlichen Seminar der Technischen Universitiit Braunschweig, Bd. 20), Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag, 1979, 8vo, pp. 267, DM. 30.00 (paperback).

Arthur Rook and Rodney Dawber, Diseases of the hair and scalp, Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1982, 8vo, pp. ix, 571, illus., [no price stated].

La médecine hospitaliére francaise au XVIIIe siècle, (Colloque de l'Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Pharmacie de l'Université René Descartes, Paris, 5 octobre 1977), Strasbourg, Universite Louis Pasteur, 1980, 4to, pp. [iv], 213, [no price stated].

Felix Klein-Franke, Vorlesungen über die Medizin im Islam, (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 23), Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 161, DM. 52.00 (paperback).

Wolf Zuelzer, The Nicolai case. A biography, Detroit, Mich., Wayne State University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 463, illus., $30.00.

John C. Sheehan, The enchanted ring. The untold story of penicillin, Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xvi, 224, illus., £10.50.

John S. Hallerjr., American medicine in transition 1840–1910, Urbana, Chicago, and London, University of Illinois Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xii, 457, illus., $17.50.

Deborah Gorham, The Victorian girl and the feminine ideal, London, Croom Helm, 1982, 8vo, pp. [x], 223, £11.95.

Wolfgang Schneider, Paracelsus – Autor der Archidoxis Magica? (Veröffentlichungen aus dem pharmaziegeschichtlichen Seminar der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 23), Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1982, 8vo, pp. 30 + facsimile, DM. 15.00 (paperback).

Cornelia D. Sonntag, Zur Geschichte der Apothekenprivilegien, Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1982, 8vo, pp. xviii, 267, DM. 28.00.

Brian Easlea, Witch-hunting, magic and the new philosophy. An introduction to the debates of the scientific revolution 1450–1750, Brighton, Harvester Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xii, 283, [no price stated].

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