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An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 30 - 1986

Book Review

Ann-Louise Shapiro, Housing the poor of Paris 1850–1902, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, 8vo, pp.xx, 224, illus., £32.50.

Dean Keith Simonton, Genius, creativity, and leadership. Historiometric inquiries, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. ix, 231, £16.00.

G. G. Meynell, The two Sydenham Societies. A history and bibliography of the medical classics published by the Sydenham Society and the New Sydenham Society (1844–1911), Acrise, Kent, Winterdown Books, 1985, 4to, pp.viii, 192, illus. £13-00 (paperback).

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Harlan Lane (editor), The deaf experience. Classics in language and education, trans. by Franklin Philip, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. ix, 221, £16.00.

Ulrich Tröhler, Der Nobelpreisträger Theodor Kocher 1841–1917, Basle, Birkhauser, 1984, 8vo, pp. xvi, 238, SFr.38.80

Spencer L. Rogers, Primitive surgery. Skills before science. Springfield, Illinois, Charles C Thomas, 1985, 8vo, pp.x, 128, $19–75.

Roger Cooter, The cultural meaning of popular science. Phrenology and the organization of consent in nineteenth-century Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. xiv, 418, £25.00.

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Rima D. Apple (compiler), Illustrated catalogue of the slide archive of historical medical photographs at Stony Brook, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. xi, 442, illus., £49.95.

Elisabeth Finckh, Foundations of Tibetan medicine, vol. 2, London, Robinson Books (distribution: Shaftesbury, Element Books), 1985, 8vo, pp. 131, illus., £18O00.

Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke, Astrologisch-magische Theorie und Praxis in der Heilkunde der frühen Neuzeit, (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 25), Stuttgart, Steiner, 1985, 8vo, pp. 328, illus., DM.68.00.

Ming Wong, Les massages en médecine traditionelle chinoise, Paris, Masson, 1984, 8vo, pp. x,128, illus., £16.50.

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Book Notices

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Roderick E. Mcgrew, Encyclopaedia of medical history, London, Macmillan, 1985, 4to, pp. xiv, 400, £25.00.

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MDH volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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MDH volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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D. T. Bird (compiler), Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts (1491–1900) in the library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, 1984, 8vo, pp. 424, illus., £9.80.

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