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Volume 36 - October 1992

Book Reviews

Carol Trowbridge, Andrew Taylor Still, 1828–1917, Kirksville, Missouri, The Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1991, pp. xiv, 233, illus., $50.00 (0-943549-06-X).

Jerome Neu (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Freud, Cambridge Companion series, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. x, 356, £40.00, $59.95 (hardback, 0-521-37424-3), £12.95, $17.95 (paperback 0-521-37779-X).

Joseph B. Kirsner, The development of American gastroenterology, New York, RavenPress, 1990, pp. xiv, 466, illus., $77.50 (0-88167-603-9).

Virginia Berridge, The Society for the Study of Addiction 1884–1988, special issue of British Journal of Addiction, August 1990, 85 (8): 983-1087, illus., £21.50 (ISSN 0952-1481).

G. R. Dunstan (ed.), The human embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions, University of Exeter Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 235 £25.00.

Davida Rubin (comp.), Sir Kenelm Digby F.R.S. (1603–1665): a bibliography based on the collection of K. Garth Huston, Sr., M.D., San Francisco, Jeremy Norman, 1991, pp. xvi, 130, illus., $95.00 (0-930405-29-3).

Margaret Pelling and Richard M. Smith (eds), Life, death, and the elderly: historical perspectives, Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1991, pp. xvi, 252, £45.00 (0-415-05742-6).

Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg, Pictures of health: a photographic history of health care in Philadelphia 1860–1945, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, pp. xxix, 197, illus., $49.95 (0-8122-8237-X), $29.95 (paperback, 0-8122-1311-4).

Steve Webb, From the watching of shadows: the origins of radiological tomography, Bristol, Adam Hilger, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvii, 347, illus., £29.50.

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Guy Saudan, La médecine á Lausanne du XVIe au XXe siècle, Dengues, Éditions du Verseau, Roth & Sauter, 1991, pp. 273, illus. (2-88075-015-6).

Mary P. English, Victorian values: the life and times of Dr. Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S., Bristol, Biopress Ltd (The Orchard, Clanage Road, Bristol BS3 2JX, Avon), 1990, pp. xvi, 187, illus., £29.50 (0-948737-14-X).

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Jean Théodoridès, Des miasmes aux virus, Paris, Editions Louis Parientes, 1991, pp. 378, illus. (2-902474-64-4).

James H. Cassedy, Medicine in America: a short history, The American Movement series, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, pp. xi, 187, £26.00 (hardback, 0-8018-4207-7), £8.50 (paperback, 0-8018-4208-5).

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MDH volume 36 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Ingo Wilhelm Müller, Iatromechanische Theorie und ärztliche Praxis im Vergleich zur galenistischen Medizin, Historische Forschungen, vol. 17, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991, pp. 320, DM 72.00 (3-515-05516-9).

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