22 August 2024: Due to technical disruption, we are experiencing some delays to publication. We are working to restore services and apologise for the inconvenience. For further updates please visit our website: https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/about-us/news-and-blogs/cambridge-university-press-publishing-update-following-technical-disruption

Skip to main content Accessibility help

Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Journal Home

Only show content I have access to (263)

Over 3 years (263)

Book reviews (215)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Medical History
ISSN: 0025-7273

EISSN: 2048-8343

URL: /core/journals/medical-history
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 21 - October 1977

Book Reviews

Andrew Woodfield, Teleology, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 232, £6.50.

Ann Mozley Moyal (editor), Scientists in nineteenth century Australia. A documentary history, Stanmore, N.S.W., Cassell (Australia), 1976, 8vo, pp. [4 1 1.], 280, [no price stated].

Friedrich Solmsen, Aristotle's system of the physical world. A comparison with his predecessors, [Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1960] New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970, 8vo, pp. xiv, 468, [no price stated].

Magda Whitrow (editor), Isis cumulative bibliography. A bibliography of the history of science formed from Isis Critical Bibliographies 1–90, 1913–1965, vol. HI: subjects, London, Mansell, 1976, 4to, pp. xviv, 678, £28.00.

Donald J. D'Elia, Benjamin Rush: philosopher of the American Revolution, from Trans. Amer. philosoph. Soc., 1974, New Series, vol. 64, part 5, 4to, pp. 113, $5.00.

Ronald L. Numbers, Prophetess ofhealth: a study of Ellen G. White, New York, Harper & Row, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 271, illus., $10.00

Richard Ashley, Heroin. The myths and the facts, London, St. James Press, 1972, 8vo, pp. xi, 276, £3.50.

[Marsilio Ficino], The ketters of Marsilio Ficino, volume I, London, Shepheard-Walwyn, 1975, 8vo, pp. 248, £6.00.

E. A. E. Reymond (editor), From the contents of the libraries of the Suchos Temples in the Fayyum. Part 1. A medical book from Crocodilopolis. P. Vindob. D. 6257, Vienna, Brüder Hollinek, 1976, 4to, pp. 304, illus., [no price stated].

Margery G. Blackie, The patient not the cure. The challenge of homoeopathy, London, Macdonald & Jane's, 1976, 8vo, pp. [7 11.], 247, illus., £4.95

Michael Hunter, John Aubrey and the realm of learning, London, Duckworth, 1975, 8vo, pp. 256, illus., £12.50.

Deno John Geanakoplos, Byzantium and the Renaissance. Greek scholars in Venice. Studies in the dissemination of Greek learning from Byzantium to Western Europe, Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press (Archon Books), 1973, 8vo, pp. xvi, 348, $13.50.

Fred Rosner, Sex ethics in the writings of Moses Maimonides, New York, Bloch, 1974, 8vo, pp. x, 129, $7.95.

Diana Crane, Invisible colleges. Diffusion of knowledge in scientific communities, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1972, 8vo, pp. x, 213, £7.15 (£2.00 paperback)

Roger Manvell, The trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, London, Elek, 1976, 8vo, pp. xi, 182, £5.95.

Marie Barovic Rosenberg and Len V. Bergstrom (compilers), Women and society. A critical review of the literature with a selected annotated bibliography, Beverly Hills and London, Sage Publications, 1975, 8vo, pp. [3. 11],354, £11.00.

George Ordish, The constant pest. A short history of pests and their control, London, Peter Davies, 1976, 8vo, [5 11.], pp. 240, illus., £6.50.

Book Notices

Book Notices

Book Reviews

Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 21 - October 1977

Book Reviews

Book Notices

Book Reviews