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Volume 27 - Issue 3 - July 1983

Book Review

Patricia O'Brien, The promise of punishment. Prisons in nineteenth-century France, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiii, 330, illus., £21.20.

Kenneth F. Kiple and Virginia H. King, Another dimension to the black Diaspora. Diet, disease, and racism, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xix, 295, £20.00.

Nancy Stepan, The idea ofrace in science: Great Britain, 1800–1960, London, Macmillan, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxi, 230, £20.00.

Felix Klein-Franke, Vorlesungen über die Medizin im Islam, (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 23), Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 161, DM. 52.00 (paperback).

Wolf Zuelzer, The Nicolai case. A biography, Detroit, Mich., Wayne State University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 463, illus., $30.00.

Wolfgang Schneider, Paracelsus – Autor der Archidoxis Magica? (Veröffentlichungen aus dem pharmaziegeschichtlichen Seminar der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 23), Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1982, 8vo, pp. 30 + facsimile, DM. 15.00 (paperback).

Cornelia D. Sonntag, Zur Geschichte der Apothekenprivilegien, Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1982, 8vo, pp. xviii, 267, DM. 28.00.

Kurt Hofius, Rezeptjournale der Ratsapotheke Lehrte von 1899 und 1930, (Veröffentlichungen aus dem Pharmaziegeschichtlichen Seminar der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 24), Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 65, DM. 10.00 (paperback).

Iris Renner, Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Pharmakognosie, Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1982, 8vo, pp. 377, [no price stated].

Augustin Albarracin, Santiago Ramón y Cajal o la pasión España, 2nd ed., with introduction by P. Lain Entralgo, Barcelona, Editorial Labor, 1982, 4to, pp. 311, illus., [no price stated], (paperback).

Helen Swick Perry, Psychiatrist of America. The life of Harry Stack Sullivan. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 462, illus., £14.00.

William Schupbach, The paradox of Rembrandt's ‘Anatomy of Dr Tuip’, (Medical History, Supplement No. 2), London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1982, 4to, pp. xiv, 110, illus., £9.00.

Lester S. King, Medical Thinking. A historical preface, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 336, £13.80.

Olivier Faure, Genèse de l'hôpital moderne. Les hospices civils de Lyon de 1802 à 1845, Lyons, Presses Universitaires de Lyon; Paris, Editions du CNRS, 1982, 8vo, pp. 269, Fr. 90.00 (paperback).

G. N. Cantor and M. J. S. Hodge (editors), Conceptions of ether. Studies in the history of ether theories 1840–1900, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. x, 351, £30.00.

Laennec 1781–1826, Colloque organisé au Collège de France 1981, Revue du Palais de la Découverte, Special No. 22, August 1981, 8vo, pp. 343, illus., Fr. 45.00 (paperback).

V. C. Medvei, A history of endocrinology, London, Boston, and The Hague, MTP Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xviii, 913, illus., £49.95.

Michael J. Lepore, Death of the clinician: requiem or reveille?, Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1982, 8vo, pp. xviii, 359, $27.50.

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