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Volume 22 - October 1978

Book Reviews

F. F. Cartwright, A social history of medicine, London and New York, Longman, 1977, 8vo, pp. 209, £2.95 (paperback).

Steven R. Hirsch and Michael Shepherd (editors), Themes and variations in European psychiatry. An anthology, Bristol, John Wright, 1974, 8vo, pp. xii, 456, illus., [no price stated].

Robert I. Watson, sr. (editor), Eminent contributors to psychology, volume I: A bibliography of primary references, New York, Springer, 1974, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 470, $29.50.

Peter Richards, The medieval leper and his northern heirs, Ipswich, D. S. Brewer, 1977, 8vo, pp. xvi, 178, illus., £6.00.

Felix Gilbert, History: choice and commitment, Cambridge, Mass., and London. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. viii, 549, £12.65.

John Woodward and David Richards (editors), Health care and popular medicine in nineteenth century England. Essays in the social history of medicine, London, Croom Helm, 1977, 8vo, pp. [vi], 195, £7.95.

Everett Mendelsohn, Peter Weingart and Richard Whitley (editors), The social production of scientific knowledge, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1977, 8vo, pp. vii, 294, [no price stated].

Mark D. Altschule, The development of traditional psychopathology. A sourcebook, Washington, D.C., and London, Hemisphere, 1976, 8vo, pp. v, 330, £14.70.

John Farley, The spontaneous generation controversy. From Descartes to Oparin, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. xiv, 225, £10.25.

Sydney Anglo (editor), The damned art. Essays in the literature of witchcraft, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977, 8vo, pp. viii, 258, £8.50.

Folie et déraison à la Renaissance, Brussels, Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1976, 8vo, pp. 234, illus., 525 FB. (paperback).

R. H. Ward and K. M. Weiss (editors), The demographic evolution of human populations, London, Academic Press, 1976, 4to, pp. xii, 158, illus., £4.50.

C. R. Searle, Eugenics and politics in Britain 1900–1914, Leyden, Noordhof International Publishing, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 147, Dfl. 45.00.

June Goodfield, Playing God. Genetic engineering and the manipulation of life, London, Hutchinson, 1977, 8vo, pp. xv, 218, £5.95.

J. J. Cobben, Jan Wier, devils, witches and magic, translated by S. A. Prins, Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 218, ilus., $8.95.

Herbert Stanley Matsen, Alessandro Achillini (1463–1512) and his doctrine of ‘Universals’ and ‘Transcendentals’. A study in Renaissance Ockhamism, Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, (London, Associated University Presses), 1974, 8vo, pp. 332, £11.00 ($27.50).

Alan D. Gilbert, Religion and society in industrial England. Church, chapel and social change, 1740–1914, London, Longman, 1976, 8vo, pp. x, 251, £3.50 (paperback).

Richard Cavendish, A history of magic, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977, 4to, pp. [vi], 180, illus., £4.95.

Arnaldo Momigliano, Essays in ancient and modern historiography, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1977, 8vo, pp. [x], 387, £12.00.

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