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Volume 25 - 1981

Book Review

John D. Spillane, The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology, Oxford University Press, 1981, 4to, pp. xii, 467, illus., £25.00.

Enid Rhodes Peschel (editor), Medicine and literature, New York, Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1980, 8vo, pp. xix, 204, $15.00.

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John Forrester, Language and the origins of psychoanalysis. London, Macmillan, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvi, 285, £15.00.

Jean-Louis Flandrin, Families in former times. Kinship, household, and sexuality, translated by Richard Southern, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xi, 265, £14.50 (£4.50 paperback).

Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Persian medical manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. A descriptive catalogue, Malibu, Calif., 1978, 4to, pp. xxii, 297, [no price stated].

Richard S. Westfall, Never at rest. A biography of Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 908, illus., £25.00.

Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian society: women, class, and state, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. ix, 347, £15.00.

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Peter Homans, Jung in context. Modernity and the making of a psychology, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. ix, 234, £9.00.

Audrey Leathard, The fight for family planning, London, Macmillan, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 293, illus., £15.00.

Macdonald Critchley, The divine banquet of the brain and other essays, New York, Raven Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. viii, 267, illus., $20.40.

Herculine Barbin. Being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century hermaphrodite, introduced by Michel Foucault, translated by Richard McDougall, Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvii, 199, £7.95.

Saul Jarcho, The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Albertini, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1980, 4to, pp. xiii, 407, £27.00.

Arthur Kleinman, Patients and healers in the context of culture. An exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvi, 427, illus., £15.00.

John T. Alexander, Bubonic Plague in early modern Russia: public health and urban disaster, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvii, 385, illus., £1 5.50.

C. G. Phillips (editor), Selected papers of Gordon Holmes, Oxford University Press, 1979, 4to, pp. xi, 488, illus., £20.00.

Elizabeth Smith, A woman with a purpose. The diaries of Elizabeth Smith 1872–1884, edited by Veronica Strong-Boag, Toronto and London, University of Toronto Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xxxviii, 298, illus., $25.00 ($10.00 paperback).

John M. Eyler, Victorian social medicine. The ideas and methods of William Farr, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. x, 262, front, £11.75.

Innes H. Pearse, The quality of life. The Peckham approach to human ethology. Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xvi, 194, illus., £6.50.

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