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Volume 21 - October 1977

Book Reviews

Marjorie Grene and Everett Mendelsohn (editors), Topics in the philosophy of biology Boston and Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiii, 454, $39.50 ($19.50 paperback).

Agostino Ramelli, The various and ingenious machines of Agostino Ramelli (1588), translated by Martha Teach Gnudi, London, Scolar Press, 1976, fo., pp. 604, illus., £50.00.

Richard Deacon, Matthew Hopkins; Witch Finder General, London, Frederick Muller, 1976, 8vo, pp. 223, illus., £6.50.

Ruth Matheson Buck, The doctor rode side-saddle, Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1974, 8vo, pp. viii, 9–175, illus., $8.95.

Harcourt Brown, Science and the human comedy. Natural philosophy in French literature from Rabelais to Maupertius, Toronto, University of Toronto Press,(London, Canada Books), 1976, 8vo, pp. xx, 223, illus., £10.50.

Ronald G. Walton, Women in social work, London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. xvi, 308, £6.95.

George Andrews and David Solomon (editors), The coca leafand cocaine papers, New York and London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 372, £4.25.

Marvin Rosen, Gerald R. Clark and Marvin S. Kivitz (editors), The history of mental retardation. Collected papers, 2 vols., Baltimore, Md., and London, University Park Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 400, and ix, 453, £18.50.

Carlo M. Cipolla, Public health and the medical profession in the Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 136, illus., £5.50.

Derek Llewellyn-Jones, People populating, London, Faber & Faber, 1975, 8vo, pp. 368, illus., £3.95.

Peter Haining (editor), The hashish club. An anthology of drug literature, Volume I, The founding of the modern tradition.;from Coleridge to Crowley, Volume II, The psychodelic era: from Huxley to Lennon, London, Peter Owen, 1975, 8vo, pp. 264, 160, illus., vol. 1: £4.50; vol. II: £3.25.

Antoinette Mann Paterson, Francis Bacon and socialized science, Springfield, Ill., C. C Thomas, 1973, 8vo, pp. ix, 191, $10.95.

John Z. Bowers and Elizabeth F. Purcell (editors), Advances in American medicine: essays at the Bicentennial, 2 vols., New York, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 918, illus., $25.00.

Wayland D. Hand (editor), American folk medicine. A symposium, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 347, illus., £10.35.

Arthur E. Imhof and Øivind Larsen, Sozialgeschichte und Medizin. Probleme der quantifizierenden Quellenbearbeitung in der Sozial- und Medizingeschichte, Oslo, Universitetsforlaget (Stuttgart, Fischer Verlag), 1975, 8vo, pp. xi, 322, illus., Nkr. 138.00.

J. H. Reyner in collaboration with George Laurence and Carl Upton, Psionic medicine. The study and treatment of the causative factors in illness, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974, 8vo, 4 11., pp. 139, illus., £2.00.

John Z. Bowers and Elizabeth F. Purcell (editors), Advances in American medicine: essays at the Bicentennial, 2 vols., New York,Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 918, illus., $25.00.

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