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Volume 21 - October 1977

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Mary Cathcart Borer, Willingly to school. A history of women's education, Guildford and London, Lutterworth, 1976, 8vo, pp. 319, illus., £5.95.

Luisa Cogliati Arano, The medieval health handbook “Tacuinum sanitatis”, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1976, 8vo, pp. 153, illus., £10.00.

J. M. Ziman, Public knowledge. An essay concerning the social dimension of science, Cambridge University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xii, 154, £1.40 (paperback).

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MDH volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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David M. Vess, Medical revolution in France 1789–1796, Gainsville, Fla., University Press of Florida, 1975, 8vo, pp. [2 11.], 216, $12.00.

Lester D. Stephens (compiler), Historiography; a bibiography, Metuchen, N. J., Scarecrow Press, (Folkestone, Kent, Bailey Bros. & Swinfen), 1976, 8vo, pp. iv, 271, £7.65.

W. R. Merrington, University College Hospital and its Medical School; a history, London, Heinemann, 1976, 8vo, pp. xvii, 301, illus., £7.50.

Gwynne Vevers (compiler), London's Zoo. An anthology to celebrate 150 years of the Zoological Society of London, London, Bodley Head, 1976, 8vo, pp. 159, illus., £4.95.

Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Donald Phillip Verene (editors), Giambattista Vico's science of humanity, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxix, 496, £13.30.

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MDH volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Robert Bartlett Haas, Muybridge. Man in motion, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1976, 4to, pp. xi, 207, illus., £12.00.

P. J. Perry, A geography of nineteenth-century Britain, London, Batsford, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 187, illus., £3.20 (paperback).

Arthur Kleinman, Peter Kunstadter, E. Russell Alexander, James L. Gale (editors), Medicine in Chinese cultures; comparative studies of health care in Chinese and other societies, Bethesda, Md., National Institutes of Health (Fogarty International Center), [1975], 8vo, pp. xvi, 803, $11.00.

Derek J. Oddy and Derek S. Miller (editors), The making of the modern British diet, London, Croom Helm, 1976, 8vo, pp. 235, £6.95.

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Edward Kremers and George Urdang, History of pharmacy, fourth edition, revised by Glenn Sonnedecker, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, (Oxford, Blackwell), 1976, 4to, pp. xv, 571, illus., £19.20.

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