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Volume 31 - January 1987

Book Review

Joan Busfield, Managing madness: changing ideas and practice, London, Hutchinson, 1986, 8vo, pp. 406, £25.00.

Roger French and Frank Greenaway (editors), Science in the early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, his sources and influence, London, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. [viii], 287, £19.95.

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Phil Brown, The transfer of care. Psychiatric deinstitutionalization and its afiermath, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 275, £19.95.

Wilfred Trotter, Instincts of the herd in peace and war 1916–1919, with introduction by Douglas Holdstock, London, Keynes Press, 1985, 4to, pp. xxviii, 202, £45.00.

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Greta Jones, Social hygiene in twentieth-century BritainLondon, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. 180, £25.00.

Bill Luckin, Pollution and control: a social history of the Thames in the nineteenth century, Bristol and Boston, Adam Hilger, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 198, £22 50.

James C. Riley, The eighteenith-century campaign to avoid disease, London, Macmillan, 1987, 8vo, pp. xvii, 213, £29.50.

Jane Lewis, What price community medicine? The philosophy, practice and politics ofpublic health since 1919, Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books, 1986, 8vo, pp. vii, 172, £9.95.

Walter B. Cannon, The mechanical factors of digestion, reprint of 1911 ed., with introduction by Horace W. Davenport, Canton, Mass., Science History Publications, 1986, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 195, illus., $20.00.

W. F. Bynum, C. Lawrence and V. Nutton, (editors), The emergence of modern cardiology (Medical History, Suplement no. 5), London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1985, 8vo, pp. x, 178, illus., £12.00 (UK)/£16.00 (overseas).

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Thomas Rogers Forbes, Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xiii, 255, illus., £20.00.

Monica E. Baly. Florence Nightingale and the nursing legacy, London, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. vi, 237, £22.50.

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Katharine Park, Doctors and medicine in early renaissance Florence, Princeton University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xii, 298, £33.40.

Colin A. Russell, Lancastrian chemist. The early years of Sir Edward Frankland, Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1986, 4to, pp.ix, 187, illus., £30.00.

Sander L. Gilman, Difference and pathology: stereotypes of sexuality, race, and madness, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. 292, illus., $38.45 ($14.25 paperback)

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Peter Murray Jones, Medieval medical miniatures, London, The British Library in association with the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984, 4to, pp. 144, illus., £12.95.

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A. Mcgehee Harvey ans Susan L. Abrams, “For the welfare of mankind”. The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xiii, 696, £26.50.

Ilo Kabin, Die medizinische Forschung und Lehre an der Universität Dorpat/Tartu 1802–1940, Luneborg, Verlag Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1986, 8vo, pp. 628, DM.40.00 (paperback).

Oliver R. Impey and A. G. Macgregor, The origins of museums, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985, 4to, pp. xiii, illus., £60.00.

Alexander Kohn, False prophets. Fraud and error in science and medicine, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 226, £14.95.

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