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Volume 35 - 1991

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Colin Jones, The charitable imperative: hospitals and nursing in ancien regime and Revolutionary France, The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1989, pp. xiii, 317, £35.00 (0-415-02133-2).

Daniel Pick, Faces of degeneration: a European disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. viii, 275, illus., £27.50, $39.50.

Javier Defelipe and Edward G. Jones, Cajal on the cerebral cortex: an annotated translation of the complete writings, Oxford University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 654, illus., £50.00.

Brigitte Lohff, Die Suche nach der Wissenschaftlichkeit der Physiologie in der Zeit der Romantik: ein Beitrag zur Erkenntnisphilosophie der Medizin, Medizin in Geschichte und Kultur 17, Stuttgart and New York, Gustav Fischer, 1990, 8vo, pp. xii, 262, DM 78.00, (paperback).

Renato G. Mazzolini, Politisch-biologische Analogien im Fruhwerk Rudolf Virchows, transl. Klaus-Peter Tieck, Marburg, Basilisken-Presse, 1988, 8vo, pp. 176, illus., DM 45.00 (paperback).

John Wiltshire, Samuel Johnson in the medical world. the doctor and the patient, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. x, 293, £30.00, $39.50 (0-521-38326-9).

Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt, Science andmedicine in the Old South, Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 370, £33.75.

Carol Houlihan Flynn, The body in Swift and Defoe, Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-century English Literature and Thought 5, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. viii, £27.50, $39.50.

J. Worth Estes, Dictionary of protopharmacology. therapeutic practices, 1700–1850, Canton, Mass., Science History Publications USA, 1990, pp. xvii, 229, illus., $49.95 (0-88135-068-0).

James C. Riley, Sickness, recovery antd death: a history and forecast of ill health, Houndmills and London, Macmillan Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xvi, 295, £37.50.

Geoffrey Rice, Black November: the 1918 influenza epidemic in New Zealand, Wellington, Allen & Unwin and Historical Branch, New ZealandDepartment of Internal Affairs, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 230, NZ $29.95, (paperback).

Shirley Roberts, Sir James Paget: the rise of clinical surgery, Eponymists in Medicine, London, Royal Society of Medicine Services, 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 223, illus., £12.95, £7.95 (paperback).

Gunter Mann and Franz Dumont (eds), Die Natur des Menschen: Probleme der physischen Anthropologie und Rassenkunde (1750–1850), Soemmerring-Forschungen 6, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer, 1990, 8vo, pp. 457, DM 128.00.

Terra Ziporyn, Disease in the popular American press: the case of diptheria, typhoid fever, and syphilis, 1870–1920, Contributions in Medical Studies 24, New York, Westport, and London, Greenwood Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xi, 192, £37.95.

Jean-Charles Sournia, A history of alcoholism, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990, 8vo, pp. xix, 232, illus., £25.00.

Ornella Moscucci, The science of women: gynaecology and gender in England, 1800–1929, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. x, 278, illus., £35.00, $49.50.

Jules Kosky, Mutual friends: Charles Dickens and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 245, illus., £14.95.

Paul Weindling, Health, race and German politics between national unification and Nazism 1870–1945, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xi, 641, illus., £55.00, $69.50.

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