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Volume 34 - 1990

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Charles E. Rosenberg (ed.), Florence Nightingale on hospital reform, Medical Care in the United States: The Debate before 1940, New York, Garland, 1989, 8vo, pp. xi, 187, xv, 110, illus., $60.00.

Phillip A. Nicholls, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50.

Colin Heywood, Childhood in ninetenth-century France: work, health and education among the classes populaires, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xii, 350, £30.00, $44.50.

Alan Derickson, Workers' health, workers' democracy: the Western miners' struggle, 1891–1925, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xviii, 251, illus., $29.70.

Rima D. Apple, Mothers and medicine. A social history of infant feeding, 1890–1950, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xv, 261, illus., $39.50, $16.25 (paperback).

Todd L. Savitt and James Harvey Young, (eds.), Disease and distinctiveness in the American South, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 211, illus., $24.95.

Leonard G. Wilson, Medical revolution in Minnesota: a history of the University of Minnesota Medical School, St Paul, Midewiwan Press, (797 Goodrich Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105-3344), 1989, 8vo, pp. xi, 612, illus., $55.00 + $2.50 p&p (US), $3.50 p&p (elsewhere).

Patricia E. Prestwich, Drink and the politics ofsocial reform: anti-alcoholism in France since 1870, Palo Alto, The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 365.

Jennifer Beinart, A history of the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, 1937–1987, Oxford University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xiii, 214, illus., £25.00.

Robert Dingwall, Anne Marie Rafferty and Charles Webster, An introduction to the social history of nursing, London, Routledge, 1988, pp. vii, 256, £10.95 (paperback).

Wendy Mitchinson and Janice Dickin Mcginnis (eds.), Essays in the History of Canadian Medicine, Canadian Social History Series, Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1988, 8vo, pp. 218, Can $14.95, (paperback).

George E. Ayres, Social conditions and welfare legislation 1800–1930, Documents and Debates, Houndsmill, Hants, and London, Macmillan Education, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 126, £4.25 (paperback).

Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (eds.), AIDS: the burdens of history, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 362, illus., $28.50, $12.95 (paperback).

Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, His very silence speaks. Comanche: the horse who survived Custer's last stand, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. 358, illus., $39.95, $16.00 (paperback).

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