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Volume 25 - Issue 4 - October 1981

Book Review

G. L'E. Turner, Essays on the history of the microscope, Oxford, Senecio Publishing Co., 1980, 8vo, pp. [viii], 245, illus., £14.95 (paperback).

Roger L. Williams, The horror of life, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980, 8vo, pp. xiv, 381, illus., £15.00.

Morris J. Vogel, The invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870–1930, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. ix, 171, £9.30.

Josep Trueta, Trueta: surgeon in war and peace, translated by Amelia and Michael Stubell, London, Gollancz, 1980, 8vo, pp. 288, £9.95.

Edmund D. Pellegrino, Humanism and the physician, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xiii, 248, $15.50.

Michael Hunter, Science and society in Restoration England, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xii, 233, £18.50 (£5.95 paperback).

Norman Dain, Clifford W. Beers: advocatefor the insane, Pittsburg, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980, pp. xxix, 392, illus., $19.95.

D. P. Walker, Unclean spirits. Possession and exorcism in France and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, London, Scolar Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. 116, £9.95.

Aidan and Eve Cockburn, Mummies, disease and ancient cultures, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 4to, pp. x, 340, illus., £25.00.

Charles F. Merbs et al., Catalogue of the Hrdlicka paleopathology collection, San Diego Museum of Man, 1980, 4to, pp. xii, 359, illus., [no price stated], (paperback).

W. Wuttke-Groneberg, Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Ein Arbeitsbuch, Tübingen, Schwäbische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1980, 4to, pp. 440, illus., DM. 42.00. (paperback).

Alan Sheridan, Michel Foucault. The will to truth, London and New York, Tavistock Publications, 1980, 8vo, pp. x, 243, £10.50 (£4.50 paperback).

Lucile H. Brockway, Science and colonial expansion: the role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens, New York and London, Academic Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xvi, 215, illus., $21.00.

T. D. Whittet, Clerks, bedels and chemical operators of the Society of Apothecaries (The Gideon Delaune Lecture for 1977), London, Society of Apothecaries, 1981, 8vo, pp. 88, illus., £2.30 (inclusive of postage). (Copies available from Apothecaries' Hall, Black Friars Lane, London E.C.l.)

Howard F. Taylor, The IQ game. A methodological inquiry into the heredityenvironment controversy, Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xiii, 276, £18.50.

Maurice Goldsmith, Sage. A life of J. D. Bernal, London, Hutchinson, 1980, 8vo, pp. 256, illus., £8.95.

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