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Volume 30 - 1986

Book Review

Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of change. Five plants that transformed mankind, London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985, 8vo, pp. x, 245, illus., £15.00.

Juan A. Del Regato, Radiologicalphysicists, New York, American Institute of Physics for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 1985, 4to, pp. v, 188, illus., $25.00.

Gerlof Verwey, Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context: Philosophical presuppositions and implications of German psychiatry, 1820–1870.Dordrecht, Boston, and Lancaster, D. Reidel, 1984, 8vo, pp. xix, 316, £30.50.

Everett Mendelsohn (editor), Transformation and tradition in the sciences. Essays in honor of I.Bernard Cohen, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xiv, 578, £40.00.

D. Tutzke, K.-J. Burmeister, R. Lange-Pfautsch, and G. Brüschke, Charité 1710–1985, Berlin DDR, VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, 1985, 8vo, pp. 79, illus., M.25.00(paperback).

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (editor), The complete letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904, Cambridge Mass., and London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xv, 505, illus., £19.95.

Ronald Hamowy, Canadian medicine. A study in restricted entry, Vancouver, Frazer Institute, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 394, $15-95 (paperback).

A. Z. Iskandar, A descriptive list of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science at the University of California, Los Angeles, Leiden, Brill, 1984, 8vo, pp. xiv, 119 illus., DF1.48.00.

Arndt Fleischer, Patentgesetzgebung und Chemisch-Pharmazeutische Industrie im Deutschen Kaiserreich (1871–1918), Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1984, 8vo, pp.xix, 440, illus., DM.46.00.

Beat Rüttimann, Wilhelm Schulthess (1855–1917) und die Schweizer Orthopädie seinerZeit, Zurich, Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. xv, 272, illus. SFr.88.00.

Martin S. Pernick, A calculus of suffering. Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America, New York, Columbia University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xv, 421, illus., $45.50.

John G. Howells and M. Livia Osborn, A reference companion to the history of abnormal psychology, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1984, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xviii, 1141, £85-95 the set.

Lewis Thomas, The youngest science, Oxford University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 276, £3.95 (paperback).

Pierre Pichot, A century of psychiatry, Paris, Dacosta, 1984, 8vo, pp. 189, illus., [no price stated] (paperback).

John Wilds, Ochsner's. An informal history of the South's largest private medical center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1985, pp. x, 256, illus., £22–50.

William Budd, On the causes off evers (1839), edited by Dale C. Smith, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp.xii, 164, £9.55 (paperback).

Linda L. Clark, Social Darwinism in France, University of Alabama Press/London, Eurospan, 1984, 8vo, pp. xi, 261, [no price stated].

Teresa Santander, Escolares medicos en Salamanca (siglo XVI), Salamanca, Europa, 1984, 4to, pp. 443, [no price stated].

Joseph Kennedy, Coca Exotica. The illustrated story of cocaine, London, Associated University Presses, 1985, 4to, pp. 142, illus., £29–95.

Renate Simpson, How the PhD came to Britain. A century of struggle for postgraduate education, Guildford, Society for Research in to Higher Education, 1983, 8vo, pp.204, £9.75 (paperback).

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