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Volume 35 - 1991

Book Reviews

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.

Yanninck Ripa, Women and madness: the incarceration of women in nineteenth-century France, transl. Catherine du Peloux Menage, Feminist Perspective Series, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1990, pp. 175, £29.50 (0-7456-0454-4).

Joseph S. Fruton, Contrasts in scientific style: research groups in the chemical and biochemical sciences, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 191, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1990, pp. xii, 473, $40.00 (0-87169-191-4).

John M. Macgregor, The discovery of the art of the insane, Princeton University Press, 1989, 4to, pp. xix, 390, illus., $49.50.

Sally G. Mcmillen, Motherhood in the Old South: pregnancy, childbirth, and infant rearing, Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xiii, 237, £23.70.

Richard A. Solway, Demography and degeneration: eugenics and the declining birthrate in twentieth-century Britain, Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xix, 443, $49.50.

Frank Honigsbaum, Health, happiness, and security: The creation of the National Health Service, London and New York, Routledge, 1989, 8vo, pp. xv, 286, £35.00.

Richard A. Meckel, Save the babies: American public health reform and the prevention of infant mortality, 1850–1929, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 302, illus., £30.50, $42.50.

L. J. Rather, A commentary on the medical writings of Rudolf Virchow: based on Schwalbe's ‘Virchow-Bibliographie’, 1843–1901, Norman Bibliography Series 3, San Francisco, Norman, 1990, pp. xi, 236, illus., $125.00 (0-930405-19-6).

James Harvey Young, Pure food: securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906, Princeton University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xiii, 312, $29.95.

John A. Ryle, The natural history of disease, 2nd ed., 1948, repr. ed. with an introduction by Michael Shepherd, London, The Keynes Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 427, £50.00, abroad £57.00, USA $95.00.

Pauline M. H. Mazumdar (ed.), Immunology 1930–1980: essays on the history of immunology, Toronto, Wall & Thompson, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 298, ilus., $39.95.

Carol L. Moberg and Zanvil A. Cohn (eds), Launching the antibiotic era: personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics, New York, The Rockefeller University Press, 1990, pp. xii, 97, illus., (0-87470-047-7).

Neil Weir, Otolaryngology: an illustrated history, London, Butterworth, 1990, 8vo, pp. 290, illus., £39.50.

Joan Austoker and Linda Bryder (eds.), Historical perspectives on the role of the MRC: essays on the history of the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and its predecessor, the Medical Research Committee, 1913–1953, Oxford University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xi, 259, £30.00.

Leonard F. Peltier, Fractures: a history and iconography of their treatment, Norman Orthopedic Series 1, Norman Surgery Series 3, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990, 4to, pp. xxiii, 273, $195.00.

Catriona Blake, The charge of the parasols: Women's entry to the medical profession, London, The Women's Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvii, 254, £6.95 (paperback).

Milton Wainwright, Miracle cure: the story of antibiotics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 196, illus., £16.95.

Vern Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, and Marietta P. Stanton (eds), Florence Nightingale and her era: a collection of new scholarship, New York and London, Garland, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi. 365, $50.00.

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