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Volume 21 - October 1977

Book Reviews

Vanne Goodall (editor), The quest for man, London, Phaidon, 1975, 4 to, pp. 140, illus., £6.95.

Michael E. Hoare, The tactless philosopher, Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–98), Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xvi, x, 419, illus, Aus. $15.95.

G. A. Lindeboom (editor), A classified bibliography of the history of Dutch medicine 1900–1974, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxv, 663, illus., DFI.100.00.

Charles Leslie (editor), Asian medical systems; a comparative study, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 419, illus., £13.20.

Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey, Bibliography of the philosophy of technology, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1973, 8vo, pp. xvii, 205, £5.45.

J. Lawrence Pool, The Neurological Institute of New York 1909-1974, with personal anecdotes, Lakeville, Conn., Pocket Knife Press for the author, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 154, illus., $5.00 (Copies available from the author, Box 31, West Cornwall, Conn. 06796, U.S.A.)

E. J. Burford, Bawds and lodgings. A history of the London bankside brothels c.100–1675, London, Peter Owen, 1976, 8vo, 206, illus., £5.25.

Thomas Mckeown, The modern rise of population, London, Edward Arnold, 1976, 8vo, [3 11.], pp. 168, illus., £7.95.

Joseph Meites, Bernard T. Donovan and Samuel M. McCann (editors), Pioneers in neuroendocrinology, London, Plenum Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. viii, 327, illus., £11.90.

John Cottingham, Descartes' conversation with Burman, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xl, 133, £6.50.

Owen Hannaway, The chemists and the word. The didactic origins of chemistry, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. [xv], 165, illus., £6.50.

Rudolph E. Siegel, Galen on the affected parts. Translation from the Greek text with explanatory notes, Basle, Karger, 1976, 8vo, pp. x, 233, S.Fr.90, $34.75 (paperback).

Vivian Nuiton, Karl Gottlob Kühn and his edition of the works of Galen, Oxford, Oxford Microfilm Publications, 1976, 8vo, 2 11., pp. 34, £2.80.

Michael Gelfand, A service to the sick. A history of the health services for Africans in Southern Rhodesia (1890–1953), Gwelo, Rhodesia, Mambo Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. 187, illus., [no price stated].

Fernand Braudel, Capitalism and material life 1400–1800, translated by Miriam Kothan, London, Fontana, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiii, 462, £1.75 (paperback).

Frederic G. Worden, Judith P. Swazey, and George Adelman (editors), The neurosciences; paths of discovery, Cambridge,Mass., and London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1975, 4to, pp. xxi, 622, illus., £26.20.

Gilbert Lewis, Knowledge of illness in a Sepik society. A study of the Gnau, New Guinea, London, Athlone Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 379, illus., £12.50.

Silvano Arieti (editor), American handbook of psychiatry, second edition, volume 1, Thefoundations of psychiatry, New York, Basic Books, (London, Harper & Row), 1974, 4to, pp. xiii, 1270, £22.15.

James Brabazon, Albert Schweitzer. A biography, London, Gollancz, 1976, 8vo, pp. 509, illus., £6.95.

G. A. Lindeboom (editor), The letters of Jan Swammerdam to Melchisedec Thévenot, Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1975, pp. x, 190, illus., D.F1.80.00.

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