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Volume 25 - December 1992

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Maila L. Walter. Science and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. x + 362. ISBN 0-8047-1796-6. $42.50.

Marina Benjamin (ed.). Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780–1945. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. x + 295. ISBN 0-631-16649-1. £35.00.

P. R. Morris. A History of the World Semiconductor Industry. IEE History of Technology Series 12. London: Peter Peregrinus on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1990. Pp. 171. ISBN 0-86341-227-0. £32.

Elizabeth Garber (ed.). Beyond History of Science: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Schofield. Bethlehem: Lehig University Press, and London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990. Pp. 325. ISBN 0-934223-11-4.

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BJH volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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Tom Wilkie. British Science and Politics since 1945. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. x + 142. ISBN 0-631-16849-4, £24.95 (hardback); 0-631-16851-6, £8.95 (paperback).

Steve J. Heims, The Cybernetics Group. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press. 1991. Pp. xii + 334. ISBN 0-262-08200-4. £22.50.

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Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson and John H. Palmer. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. vii + 819. ISBN 0-262-16123-0. £33.75.

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Pamela E. Mack. Viewing the Earth: The Social Construction of the Landsat Satellite System. Cambridge Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 270. ISBN 0-262-13259-1. £24.75.

Evelleen Richards. Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics?Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xiv + 269. ISBN 0-333-44419-1. £35.00.

Mirko D. Grmek. History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 279. $29.95.

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Index of Authors

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Report of Council

Report of Council for the period May–December 1991

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