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Volume 20 - October 1976

Book Reviews

R. Theodore Beck, The Cutting edge. Early history of the surgeons of London, London, Lund Humphries, 1974, 8vo, pp. xvi, 216, illus., £6.00.

K. Bryn Thomas, The development of anaesthetic apparatus. A history based on the Charles King Collection of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications for the Association, 1975, 4to, pp. x, 268, illus., £12.00.

John Reidy (editor), Thomas Norton's Ordinal of alchemy, London, Oxford University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. lxxv, 125, illus., £3.00.

Max Byrd, Visits to Bedlam. Madness and literature in the eighteenth century, Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xvii, 200, illus., $9.95.

Marjorie Grene, The understanding of nature. Essays in the philosophy of biology, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1974, 8vo, pp. xii, 374, $32.00 ($17.50 paperback).

Lloyd C. Taylorjr., The medical profession and social reform, 1885–1945, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. [vii], 168, $12.95.

Patrick Roberts, The psychology of tragic drama, London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. [ix], 234, £5.95.

Pierre Huard, Zensetson Ohya and Ming Wong, La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours, Paris, Roger Dacosta, 1974, 4to, pp. [413], illus., Fr. 180.00.

Philip Roberts (editor), The diary of Sir David Hamilton, 1709–1714, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xlviii, 138, £10.00.

R. Harré, (editor), Problems of scientific revolution. Progress and obstacles to progress in the sciences, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. vii, 104, £1.75.

Jon Wynne-Tyson, Foodfor a future; the ecological priority of a humane diet, London, Davis-Poynter, 1975, 8vo, pp. 183, £3.50.

Nakayama Shigeru, David L. Swain and Yagi Eri (editors), Science and society in modern Japan. Selected historical sources, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 337, £10.00.

Lisa Jardine, Francis Bacon. Discovery and the art of discourse, London, Cambridge University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. viii, 267, £4.90 ($15.50).

Janet Barkas, The vegetable passion. A history of the vegetarian state of mind, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. xi, 224, illus., £3.95 (£1.95 paperback).

C. D. Rogers, The Lancashire population crisis of 1623, Manchester, Manchester University Extra Mural Department, 1975, 8vo, pp. 34, 60p.

Arthur J. Taylor (editor), The standard of living in Britain in the Industrial Revolution, London, Methuen, 1975, 8vo, pp. lv, 216, £5.40 (£2.90 paperback).

Nicholas H. Steneck (editor), Science and society. Past, present, and future, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. viii, 412, illus., $15.00.

L. L. Langley (editor), Homeostasis. Origins of the concept, Stroudsburg, Penn., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1973, 8vo, pp. xi, 362, illus., £11.40.

Elisabeth Finckh, Grundlagen tibetischer Heilkunde, Band 1. Uelzen, Medizinisch Literarische Verlagsgemeinschaft, 1975, 8vo, pp. 107, illus., DM.60.00.

Ernest A. Moody, Studies in medieval philosophy, science, and logic. Collected papers 1933–1969, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1975, 8vo. pp. xix, 453, £11.00.

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