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Volume 37 - October 1993

Book Reviews

Nancy Leys Stepan, “The Hour of Eugenics”: race, gender, and nation in Latin America, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1991, pp. x, 210, $31.50 (0-8014-2569-7).

Jacques Jouanna, Hippocrate, Paris, Fayard, 1992, pp. 648 (2-213-02861-3).

Philip R. Reilly, The surgical solution: a history of involuntary sterilization in the United States, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, pp. xvi, 190, $19.95, £14.50 (0-8018-4096-1).

Jody Rubin Pinault, Hippocratic lives and legends, Studies in Ancient Medicine 4, Leiden and New York, E. J. Brill, 1992, pp. x, 159, GId 100, $57.25 (90-04-09574-8).

Ada Romaine-Davis, John Gibbon and his heart-lung machine, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, pp. xxii, 251, illus., £35.00 (0-8122-3073-6).

Pauline M. H. Mazumdar, Eugenics, human genetics and human failings: The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. x, 373, illus., £40.00 (0-415-04424-3).

José Luis Peset and Diego Gracia (eds), The ethics of diagnosis, Philosophy and Medicine Series vol. 40, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992, pp. viii, 312, £62.00, Dfl. 180.00, $89.00 (0-7923-1544-8).

Gerrit Bos(ed.) Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca: the Risāla fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj, Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, texts and Studies, vol. I 1, Leiden and New York, E. J. Brill, 1992. pp. 184, Gld 100.00. $57.25 (90-04-09541-1).

June Rose, Marie Stopes and the sexual revolution, London, Faber and Faber, 1992, pp. xiv, 272, £14.99 (0-571-1620-6).

K. H. Krishnamurthy, A source book of Indian medicine: an anthology, Delhi, B. R. Publishing Corporation, 1991, pp. xiii, 547. Rs 390 (81-7018-612-9).

Jan Golinski, Science as public culture: chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xii, 342, £32.50, $54.95 (0-521-39414-7).

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Albert Dietrich (ed.), Die Dioskurides-Erkiärung des Ibn al-Baitār, Göttingen, Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991, pp. 388, illus;, DM 216 (3-525-82478-5).

J. Miriam Benn, Predicaments of love, London, Pluto Press, 1992, pp. xiv, 304, £15.50 (0-7453-0529-6)

Charles G. Roland, Courage under siege: starvation, disease and death in the Warsaw ghetto, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. x, 310, illus., $30.00 (0-19-506285-X).

Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood (eds), The code of codes: scientific and social issues in the human genome project, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. x, 398, £23.95 (0-674-13645-4).

Adam Gacek, Arabic manuscripts in the libraries of McGill University: Union Catalogue, Fontanus Monograph series, Montreal, McGill University Libraries, 1991, pp. xviii, 291, illus., $56.00 (0-7717-0211-6).

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Frances Austin (ed.), The Clift family correspondence 1792–1846, CECTAL Occasional Publications No. 5, Sheffield, Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, University of Sheffield, 1991, pp. xxi, 265, illus., £25.00 (hardback, 0-907426-04-2), £8.50 (paperback, 0-907426-03-4).

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