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Volume 28 - 1984

Book Review

Harry F. Dowling, City hospitals: the undercare of the underprivileged, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 245, £18.00.

Ronald L. Numbers (editor), Compulsory health insurance. The continuing American debate, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xv, 172, £21.95.

Joel Mokyr, Why Ireland starved: a quantitative and analytical history of the Irish economy, 1800–1850, London, Allen & Unwin, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 330, £22.50.

Frances Finnegan, Poverty and prejudice. A study of Irish immigrants in York 1840-1875, Cork University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 209, illus., Ir£ 15.00.

Richard Palmer, The Studio of Venice and its graduates in the sixteenth century, Trieste, Edizioni Lint, 1983, 8vo, pp. xi, 204, L.20,000 (paperback).

Esther Fischer-Homberger, Medizin vor Gericht. Gerichismedizin von der Renaissance bis zur Aufklärung, Berne, Stuttgart, and Vienna, Hans Huber, 1983, 8vo, pp. 487, illus., SFr. 83.00/DM. 92.00.

M. A. Crowther, The workhouse system 1834–1929. The history of an English social institution, London, Methuen, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 305, £5.95 (paperback).

Rudolf Hirsch (editor), A catalogue of the manuscripts and archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xx, 259, $30.00.

William R. Woodward and Mitchell G. Ash (editors), The problematic science: psychology in nineteenth-century thought, New York, Praeger, 1982, 8vo, pp. xvii, 394, illus., $51.00.

Arthur E. Imhof (editor), Mensch und Gesundheit in der Geschichte (Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, no. 39), Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1980, 8vo. pp. vii, 415, DM. 69.00 (paperback).

Sheila Cosminsky and Ira E. Harrison, Traditional medicine, Vol. II, 1976–1981. An annotated bibliography of Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, New York and London, Garland Publishing Co., 1984, 8vo, pp. xvii, 327, $39.00.

Edward Shorter, A history of women's bodies, London, Allen Lane, 1983, 8vo, pp. xvi, 398, £14.95. - Rosalind K. Marshall, Virgins and viragos. A history of women in Scotland from 1080 to 1980, London, Collins, 1983, 8vo, pp. 365, illus., £13.50.

Stefan Winkle, Johann Friedrich Struensee. Arzt, Aufklärer und Staatsmann, Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer, 1983, 8vo, pp. [vi], 655, illus., DM.98.00.

Nicholaas A. Rupke, The great chain of history. William Buckland and the English school of geology (1814–1849), Oxford University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xii, 322, illus., £22.50.

Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows. The morphology of an early scientific institution, Chalfont St Giles, British Society for the History of Science, 1982, 8vo, pp. v, 277, £5.90 (paperback).

Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret, Malades d'hier, malades d'aujourd'hui, Paris, Payot, 1984, 8vo, pp. 295, Fr. 99.00 (paperback).

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Richard Olson, Science deified and science defied. The historical significance of science in Western culture. From the Bronze Age to the beginnings of the modern era ca. 3500 BC to ca. AD 1640, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xv, 329, £27.50.

Geoffrey Eatough (editor), Fracastoro's syphilis (ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs, 12), Liverpool, Francis Cairns, 1984, 8vo, pp. viii, 295, £17.50.

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