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Volume 21 - October 1977

Book Reviews

Gian-Paolo Biasin, Literary diseases. Theme and metaphor in the Italian novel, Austin and London, University of Texas Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. [5 11.], 178, £6.55.

Chandler Mcg. Brooks, Kiyomi Koizumi and James O. Pinkston (editors), The life and contributions of Walter Bradford Cannon 1871–1945, Albany, N. Y., State University of New York Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxii, 264, illus., $20.00.

Joseph Needham, Moulds of understanding. A pattern of natural philosophy, edited by Gary Werskey, London, Allen & Unwin, 1976, 8vo, pp. 320, £7.75.

David Wilson, Penicillin in perspective, London, Faber & Faber, 1976, 8vo, pp. x, 298, viii, £4.95.

Terry Nicholas Clark, Prophets and patrons; the French university and the emergence of the social sciences, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1973, 8vo, pp. x, 282, £8.15.

Patrick Collard, The development of microbiology, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. vii, 201, illus., £6.50.

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, The foundations of Newton's alchemy or “The hunting of the greene lyon”, Cambridge University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xv, 300, illus., £10.50.

Felix Platter, Tagebuch (Lebensschreibung) 1536–1567, edited by Valentin Lötscher, Basle, Schwabe, 1976, 8vo, pp. 579, illus., S.Fr.120.00.

Garland E. Allen, Life science in the twentieth century, New York and London, John Wiley, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxv, 258, illus., £6.30 (£3.55 paperback).

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, The formation of the American scientific community. The American Association for the Advancement of Science 1848–60, Urbana, Chicago and London, University of Illinois Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiii, 264, 32 11., illus., £7.70.

Leonard J. Goldwater, Mercury. A history of quicksilver, Baltimore Md., York Press, 1972, 8vo, pp. xi, 318, illus., $15.00.

Bernard Lewis, History remembered, recovered, invented, Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. [5 11.], 111, £4.05.

V. V. Kovanov, In the name of life. Reflections of a Soviet surgeon, Moscow, Progress Publishers, [London, Central Books], 1976, 8vo, pp. 327, illus., £1.50.

Charles E. Rosenberg, No other gods. On science and American social thought, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiii, 273, £9.45.

Robert Byck (editor), Cocaine papers by Sigmund Freud, New York, Stonehill, 1974, 8vo, pp. xxxix, 402, [7 11.], $14.95.

R. R. Bolgar (editor), Classical influences on European culture A.D. 1500–1700, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xviii, 383, illus., £12.50.

John Mcleish, Soviet psychology; history, theory, content, London, Methuen, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 308, £6.95.

George Rosen, Preventive medicine in the United States 1900–1975. Trends and interpretations, New York, Science History Publications, 1975, 8vo, pp. viii, 94, illus., [no price stated].

Arnold Toynbee, Arthur Koestler, et al., Life after death, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1976, 8vo, pp. vi, 272, £4.95.

T. E. Allibone, The Royal Society and its dining clubs, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xv, 457, illus., £16.50.

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