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Volume 33 - 1989

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Sydney A. Halpern, American pediatrics: the social dynamics of professionalism 1880–1980, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xi, 228, $27.50.

Valerie Fildes, Wet nursing: a history from antiquity to the present, Oxford and New York, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. xx, 300, £19.50/$34.95.

Russell C. Maulitz, Morbidappearances. The anatomy of pathology in the early nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. 286, illus., $47.50.

Sheila Faith Weiss, Race, hygiene and national efficiency: the eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xi, 245, $43.25.

Roger Jeffery, The politics of health in India, Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, vol. 21, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xii, 348, $39.95.

John B. Neilson and G. R. Paterson, Associated Medical Services, Incorporated: a history, Toronto, Associated Medical Services and the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1987, 8vo, pp. 445, illus., $15.00.

Matthewramsey, Prof essional and popular medicine in France, 1770–1830. The social world of medical practice, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 406, illus., £35.00, $49.50.

Horace W. Davenport, Doctor Dock: teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century, New Brunswick, NJ, and London, Rutgers University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xvi, 342, illus., $35.00.

Gabriele Gramiccia, The life of Charles Ledger (1818–1905): alpacas and quinine, Basingstoke and London, Macmillan Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xiv, 222, illus., £30.00.

Linda Bryder, Below the magic mountain: a social history of tuberculosis in twentieth century Britain, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xiv, 298, illus., £30.00.

William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes (eds.), The investigative enterprise: experimental physiology in nineteenth-century medicine, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988, 8vo. pp. v, 342, illus., $39.95.

William Waugh, The development of orthopaedics in the Nottingham area, Nottingham, Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 209, illus., [no price stated].

Leonard Zusne, Eponyms in psychology: a dictionary and biographical source book, New York, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1987, 8vo, pp.xxi, 339, £46.95.

Frank Prochaska, The voluntary impulse: philanthropy in modem Britain, Historical Handbooks, London, Faber and Faber, 1988, 8vo, pp. xv, 106, £4.95 (paperback).

Harold Attwood and Geoffrey Kenny (editors), Reflections on medical history and health in Australia, Third National Conference on Medical History and Health in Australia 1986, Parkville, Medical History Unit, University of Melbourne, 1987, 8vo, pp. viii, 278, illus., A$20.00 (paperback).

W. J. O'Connor, Founders of British physiology: a biographical dictionary, 1820–1885, Manchester University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 278, £27.50.

Ian Kennedy, Treat me right: essays in medical law andethics, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 375, £35.00.

Peter Clark and Crispin Wright (editors), Mind, psychoanalysis and science, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. xiv, 370, £27.50.

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