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Volume 36 - October 1992

Book Reviews

Pat Holden and Jenny Littlewood (eds), Anthropology and nursing, London and New York, Routledge, 1991, pp. x, 228, £10.99 (paperback, 0-415-04881-8).

Marie Boas Hall, Promoting experimental learning: experiment and the Royal Society 1660–1727, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. xiv, 207, £35.00, $59.95 (0-521-40503-3).

Barbara Duden, The woman beneath the skin: a doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany, transl. Thomas Dunlap, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1991, pp. viii, 241, £19.95 (0-674-95403-3).

Jean Céard, Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, and Jean-Claude Margolin (eds), Le corps à la renaissance. Actes du XXXe Colloque de Tours 1987, Paris, Aux Amateurs de Livres, 1990, 8vo, pp. 502, illus. (paperback).

Stuart S. Blume, Insight and industry: on the dynamics of technological change in medicine, Inside Technology series, Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT, 1992, pp. xii, 306, illus., £26.0 (0-262-02332-6).

Mary Boyle, Schizophrenia: a scientific delusion?, London and New York, Routledge, 1990, 8vo. pp. viii, 248, £35.00.

Stephen Ashwal (ed.), The founders of child neurology, Norman Neurosciences Series 1, San Francisco, Norman Publishing in association with the Child Neurology Society, 1990, pp. xii, 935, illus., $95.00 (0-930405-26-9).

Michael R. Mcvaugh and Nancy G. Siraisi (eds), Renaissance medical learning: evolution of a tradition, Osiris, 2nd ser., vol. 6, 1990, pp. 244, illus., $29.00 (0-934235-18-X), $20.00 (paperback, 0-934235-17-1).

John Shepherd, The Crimean doctors: a history of the British Medical Services in the Crimean War, 2 vols, Liverpool Medical Studies 7, Liverpool University Press, 1991, pp. xviii + viii, 662, illus., £32.00 (paperback, 0-85323-177-X).

Simon Baatz, Knowledge, culture, and science in the metropolis: the New York Academy of Sciences, 1817–1970, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 584, New York Academy of Sciences, 1990, 8vo, pp. ix, 269, illus., $55.00.

Shigeru Nakayama, Science, technology and society in postwar Japan, Japanese Studies Series, London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1991, pp. xv, 259, £45.00 (0-7103-0428-5).

Alex Mercer, Disease, mortality andpopulation in transition: epidemiological-demographic change in England since the eighteenth century as part of a global phenomenon, Leicester University Press, 1990, pp. xiv, 262, £45.00 (0-7185-1344 4).

Maryinez Lyons, The colonial disease: a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900–1940, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 335, illus., £50.00, $79.95 (0-521-40350-2).

Elizabeth Fee and Roy M. Acheson (eds), A history of education in public health: health that mocks the doctors' rules, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. xi, 349, £35.00 (0-19-261757-5).

Lester S. King, Transformations in American medicine: from Benjamin Rush to William Osler, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, pp. 268, £27.50 (0-8018-4057-0).

Heidemarie Emisch, Ludwig Edinger: Hirnanatomie und Psychologie, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Forschungen zur Neueren Medizin- und Biologiegeschichte 4, Stuttgart and New York, Gustav Fischer, 1991, pp. 254, illus., DM 78.00 (3-437-1 1378-X).

Jack D. Ellis, The physician-legislators of France: medicine and politics in the early Third Republic, 1870–1914, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xii, 305, £35.00, $49.50.

Fridolf Kudlien and Richard J. Durling (eds), Galen's method of healing, Proceedings of the 1982 Galen Symposium, Studies in Ancient Medicine series, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1991, pp. viii, 205, DFl. 110.00 (90-04-09272-2).

Kenneth Allen De Ville, Medical malpractice in nineteenth-century America: origins and legacy, The American Social Experience Series, New York and London, New York University Press, 1990, pp. xvi, 319, illus., $34.95 (0-8147-1832-9).

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