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Volume 39 - April 1995

Essay Reviews

Sensibility reconsidered - G J Barker-Benfield, The culture of sensibility: sex and society in eighteenth century Britain, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. xxxiv, 520, illus., $49.95 (0-226-03713-4).

The Letters

Supplementary Text 2: Miscellaneous Documents

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Mark S Micale (ed.), Beyond the unconscious: essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the history of psychiatry, transl. by Françoise Dubor and Mark S Micale, Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. xii, 416, £32.50, $49.50 (0–691–08550–1).

Dora B Weiner, The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. xvi, 444, illus., £40.00 (0-8018-4483-5).

Adrian Desmond, Huxley: the devil's disciple, London, Michael Joseph, 1994, pp. xvii, 475, illus., £20.00 (0-7181-3641-1).

Ann F La Berge, Mission and method: the early-nineteenth-century French public health movement, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xviii, 376, illus., £45.00, $69.95 (0-521-40406-1).

Paul Crook, Darwinism, war and history: the debate over the biology of war from the –Origin of species— to the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xii, 306, £45.00, $64.95 (hardback 0-521-44465-9), £18.95, $27.95 (paperback 0-5214 6645-8).

Roger French, William Harvey's natural philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xii, 393, £40.00, $64.95 (0-521-45535-9).

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Supplementary Text 3: Press Cuttings

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John S HallerJr, Medical protestants: the eclectics in American medicine, 1825–1939, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1994, pp. xix, 340, illus., $49.95 (0–8093–1894–6).

W F Bynum, Science and the practice of medicine in the nineteenth century, Cambridge History of Science series, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xvi, 283, illus., £40.00, $54.95 (hardback 0-521-25109-5), £12.95, $15.95 (paperback 0-521-27205-X).

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Chronology of Laycock's Life

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André Pichot, Histoire de la notion de vie, Paris, Gallimard, 1993, pp. 973, FF 89.00 (2-07-073136-7).

Katherine Arnup, Education for motherhood: advice for mothers in twentieth century Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. xiii, 251, illus., UK £32.00, USA $50.00, Europe $60.00 (hardback 0-8020-2861-6), UK £12.00, USA $18.95, Europe $23.00 (paperback 0-8020-7361-1).

Khaled J Bloom, The Mississippi Valley's great yellow fever epidemic of 1878, Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1993, pp. x, 290, £28.50, (0–8071–1824–9).

Lara V Marks, Model mothers: Jewish mothers and maternity provision in east London, 1870–1939, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. xxi, 320, £35.00 (0-19-820454-X).

William H Brock, The Fontana history of chemistry, London, Fontana Press, 1993, pp. 744, £8.99 (00–0215–319–X).

Albert Dietrich (ed.), Die Ergänzung Ibn Ğulğul's zur Materia medica des Dioskurides, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Dritte Folge, Nr 202, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1993, pp. 86 (German), 37 (Arabic), DM 70.00 (ISBN 3-525-82589-7).

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Biographical List of Significant Edinburgh Medical Men referred to in the Main Text

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Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks, and Hilary Marland (eds), Women and children first: international maternal and infant welfare, 1870–1945, London, Routledge, 1992, pp. xxiii, 311, illus., £45.00 (0-415-08090-8).

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