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Volume 23 - December 1990

Book Reviews

Roger Cooter. (ed.). Studies in the History of Alternative Medicine. Oxford: Macmillan Press in association with St Anthony's College, Oxford, 1988. Pp. xx + 180. ISBN 0-333-46213-0. £29.50 (cloth).

C. Stewart Gillmor (ed.). History of Geophysics. Volume 2. Pp. vi + 191. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 1986.

David Rapport Lachterman. The Ethics of Geometry. A Genealogy of Modernity. New York and London: Routledge, 1989. Pp. xvi + 255. ISBN 0-415-90053-0. £25.00.

David B. Ruderman. Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenthcentury Jewish Physician. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 232. ISBN 0-674-49660-4. No price given.

John Christie & Sally Shuttleworth (eds). Nature Transfigured: Science and Literature, 1700–1900. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. 223. ISBN 0-7190-2567-2. £29.95.

Donald S. L. Cardwell. James Joule: A Biography. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. x + 333. ISBN 0-7190-3025-0. £35.00.

Penelope Murray (ed). Genius: The History of an Idea. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. ix + 235. ISBN 0-631-15785-9. £25.00.

Stephen Trombley. Sir Frederick Treves: the extra-ordinary Edwardian. London: Routledge, 1989. Pp. x + 218. ISBN 0-415-03423-X. £19.95.

Walter Moore. Schrödinger. Life and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 513. ISBN 0-521-35434-X. £25.00, $39.50.

Julian B. Barbour. Absolute or Relative Motion: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the Discovery and Structure of Dynamical Theories. Volume 1: The Discovery of Dynamics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 746. ISBN 0-521-32467X. £60.00, $95.00.

James R. Bartholomew. The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. vii + 371. ISBN 0-300-04261-2. £25.00, $36.00.

Colin Chant (ed.). Science and Technology in Everyday Life. London: Routledge in association with the Open University, 1989. Pp. 391. (Hardback). ISBN 0-415-00037-8. £40.00. (Paperback) 0-415-03557-0. £14.95.

Michael Shortland & Andrew Warwick (eds). Teaching the History of Science. Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell (in conjunction with the British Society for the History of Science), 1989. Pp. viii + 281. ISBN 0-631-16977-6 and 0-631-16978-4 (paperback). £29.50 (hardback) and £9.95 (paperback).

R. Rubinger. An American Scientist in Early Meiji Japan: The Autobiographical Notes of Thomas C. Mendenhall. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. Pp. xvii + 89. ISBN 0-8248-1177-1. £8.80 (paper).

Paul Weindling. Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 641. ISBN 0-521-36381-0. £55.00, $69.50.

H. E. Le Grand. Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. vi.+ 313. ISBN 0-521-32210-3, £30.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-521-31105-5, £10.95 (paper).

George Molland. Thomas Bradwardine, Geometrica speculative. Latin Text and English Translation with an Introduction and Commentary. Volume XVIII in the seris Boethius. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1989. Pp. 176. ISBN 3-515-05020-5. DM48 (paper).

J. Worth Estes. The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt. Canton: Science History Publications, 1989. Pp. xii + 196. ISBN 0-88135-099-0. Illus. $16.95 (hardback), $10.95 (paperback).

Ruth Harris. Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. x + 366. ISBN 0-19-8822991-7. £30.00.

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