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Volume 30 - 1986

Front matter

MDH volume 30 supplement 6 front matter

Book Review

Christopher Brooke, A history of Gonville and Caius College, Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 354, illus., £19.50.

Willis J. Elwood And A. Félicité Tuxford (editors), Some Manchester doctors. A biographical collection to mark the 150th anniversary of the Manchester Medical Society 1834–1984, Manchester University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. xiv, 228, illus., £17.50.

J. K. Aronson, An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785–1985, Oxford University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. x, 399, £25.00.

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Timothy S. Miller, The birth ofthe hospital in the Byzantine Empire, Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 288, $19.95.

Book Review

Robert Austrian, Life with the pneumococcus. Notes from the bedside, laboratory, and library, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xi, 168, £25.00.

Fridolf Kudlien (editor), Ärzte im Nationalsozialismus, Cologne, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1985, 8vo, pp. 309, [no price stated]. - Georg Lilienthal, Der “Lebensborn e. V.” Ein Instrument nationalsozialistischer Rassenpolitik, Stuttgart and New York, Gustav Fischer, 1985, pp. vii, 264, DM.48.00.

Margarete Sandelowski, Pain, pleasure, and American childbirth. From the Twilight Sleep to the Read method, 1914–1960, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xix, 152, £31.50.

A. Hyatt Mayor, Artists and anatomists, Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1984, 4to, pp. vi, 132, illus., [no price stated].

Gladys L. Hobby, Penicillin: meeting the challenge, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxii, 319, illus., £30.00.

C. Stuart Houston (editor), Arctic ordeal. The journal of John Richardson, surgeonnaturalist with Franklin 1820–22, Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press; Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1985, 4to, pp. xxxiv, 349, illus., £16.50.

Thomas Palmer, The admirable secrets of physick and chyrurgery, edited by Thomas Rogers Forbes, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. x, 221, £25.00.

Glenn Gritzer and Arnold Arluke, The making of rehabilitation. A political economy ofmedical specialization, 1890–1980, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 214, £27.50.

Frederick Lawrence Holmes, Lavoisier and the chemistry of life. An exploration of scientific creativity, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 565, illus., £38.00.

Walter Pagel, Religion and Neoplatonism in Renaissance medicine, edited by Marianne Winder, London, Variorum Reprints, 1985, 8vo, pp. x, 346, £32.00.

Elizabeth Haigh, Xavier Bichat and the medical theory of the eighteenth century, (Medical History, supplement no. 4), London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984, 8vo, pp. 146, UK £11.00/overseas £15.00.

William Paton, Man and mouse. Animals in medical research, Oxford University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. xii, 174, illus., £9.95 (£2.95 paperback).

Guido Ruggiero, The boundaries of Eros: sex crime and sexuality in Renaissance Venice, Oxford University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. vii, 223, £25-00.

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