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Volume 25 - 1981

Book Review

Phillip de Lacy (editor, translator, and commentator), Galeni De Placitis Hippocratis et Platonis Libri VI-IX, (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V 4, 1, 2), Berlin, DDR, Akademie Verlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. 250, M. 72.00.

I. G. Jones, Health, wealth and politics in Victorian Wales, University College of Swansea, 1979, 8vo, pp. 39, [no price stated], (paperback).

Jürgen Püschel, Die Geschichte des German Hospital in London (1845 bis 1948) (Studien zur Geschichte der Krankenhauswesens, vol. 14, edited by Axel Hinrich Murken), Münster, Murken-Altrogge, 1980, 8vo, pp. 207, illus., DM. 18.00 (paperback).

Arthur Donovan and Joseph Prentiss, James Hutton's medical dissertation. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 70, pt. 6), Philadelphia, 1980, 4to, pp. 57, $8.00 (paperback).

Luis S. Granjel, La medicina española renacentista, (Historia general de la medicina española, vol. II), Salamanca, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1980, 8vo., pp. 289, illus., 750 ptas. (paperback).

Godwin Jeschal, Politik und Wissenschaft deutscher Aerzte im Ersten Weltkrieg, (Würzburger Medizinhistorische Forschungen, Band 13), Pattensen/Han., Horst Wellm Verlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. 169, DM. 26.00 (paperback).

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Dieter Jetter, Geschichte des Hospitals, Band 4: Spanien von den Anfängen bis um 1500, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. viii, 239, illus., DM. 74.00 (paperback).

Martin S. Staum, Cabanis. Enlightenment and medical philosophy in the French Revolution, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1980, pp. xi, 430, £15.10.

P. H. Sydenham, Measuring instruments: tools of knowledge and control, London, Peter Peregrinus (in association with the Science Museum), 1979, 8vo, pp. xvii, 512, illus., £19.00 (overseas £22.00).

Dietrich Kurze (editor), Büchelin wye der Mensch bewar das Leben sein. Eine Mittelalterliche Gesundheitslehre in Lateinisch-Deutschen Versen, Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler, 1980, 8vo, pp. 173, illus., DM. 96.00.

G. L'E. Turner, Essays on the history of the microscope, Oxford, Senecio Publishing Co., 1980, 8vo, pp. [viii], 245, illus., £14.95 (paperback).

Esther Fischer-Homberger, Krankheit Frau und andere Arbeiten zur Medizingeschichte der Frau, Berne, Stuttgart, and Vienna, Huber, 1979, 8vo, pp. 160, illus., S.Fr. 34.00/DM. 38.00 (paperback).

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MDH volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Roger L. Williams, The horror of life, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980, 8vo, pp. xiv, 381, illus., £15.00.

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MDH volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: the metaethics of radical feminism, London, The Women's Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xviii, 485, £3.95 (paperback). - Janice C. Raymond, The transsexual empire, London, The Women's Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xxvii, 220, £2.95 (paperback).

Book Notices

Book Notices

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Axel Hinrich Murken, Joseph Beuys und die Medizin, Münster, F. Coppenrath, 1978, 8vo, pp. 160, illus., $20.00.

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