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Volume 21 - December 1988

Book Reviews

Helge Kragh. An Introduction to the Historiography of Science. Translated by Jean Lundskjær-Nielsen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 235. ISBN 0-521-33360-1. £19.50, $32.50.

Peter J. Kuznick. Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. x + 363. ISBN 0-226-46583-7. £23.95, $35.95.

Tom Sorell. Descartes. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. [viii] + 120. ISBN 0-19-287636-8. £9.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-287635-X. £2.95 (paperback). (‘Past Masters’ series.)

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V.J. Phillips. Waveforms. A History of Early Oscillography. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. viii + 259. ISBN 0-85274-274-6. £35.00.

George D. Tselos & Colleen Wickey. A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Philadelphia: Center for History of Chemistry, 1987. Pp. viii–198. ISBN 0-941901-05-X. $7.50 (paperback).

Renato Mazzolini and Shirely A. Roe. Science Against the Unbelievers: the Correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760–1780. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution, 1986. Pp. xix + 409. ISBN 0435-2866. No price given.

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Loren R. Graham. Science, Philosophy, and Human Behaviour in the Soviet Union. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. XIV + 565. ISBN 0-231-06442-X. $45.00.

John Harley Warner. The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America 1820–1885. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. 367. ISBN 0-674-88330-6. £27.50.

Nathan Reingold & Marc Rothenberg (eds). Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 398. ISBN 0-87474-785-6.

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David Oldroyd. The Arch of Knowledge. An Introductory Study of the History of the Philosophy and Methodology of Science. New York and London: Methuen, 1986. Pp. 413. ISBN 0-416-01341-4. £9.95.

Kenneth J. Carpenter. The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 288. ISBN 0-521-32029-1. £27.50, $39.50.

Frederick Burkhardt & Sydney Smith (eds). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 2 (1837–1843). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-521-25588-0. £30.00/£37.50.

Ruth Richardson. Death, Dissection and the Destitute. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987. Pp. xviii + 426. ISBN 0-7102-0919-3. £19.95.

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Derek Gjertsen. The Newton Handbook. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. xiv + 665. ISBN 0-7102-0279-2. £25.00.

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