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Volume 34 - 1990

Book Reviews

F. B. Smith, The retreat of tuberculosis 1850–1950, London, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 271, £25.00.

Stephen G. Brush, The history of modern science: a guide to the second scientific revolution, 1800–1950, Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xv, 544, $39.95.

Darlene Clark Hine, Black women in white: racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890–1950, Blacks in Diaspora Series, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 264, illus., $35.00, $12.95 (paperback).

Roy Macleod and Milton Lewis (eds.), Disease, medicine and empire: perspectives on Western medicine and the experience of European expansion, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 8vo, pp. xii, 339, £45.00.

Susan Spurling, Animal liberators: research and morality, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xiv, 247, ilus., $19.95.

Leslie T. Morton and Robert J. Moore, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50.

Charles Webster, The health services since the War, vol. 1, Problems of health care: the National Health Service before 1957, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1988, 8vo, pp. x, 479, £27.50.

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,Jan Sapp, Beyond the gene: cytoplasmic inheritance and the struggle for authority in genetics, Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology, Oxford University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xvi, 266, £32.50.

David Waldron Smithers, Not a moment to lose: some reminiscences, The Memoir Club, London, British Medical Journal, 1989, 8vo, pp. 112, illus., £14.95, £17.50 abroad, including p. & p.

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Judith M. Hughes, Reshaping the psychoanalytic domain: the work of Melanie Klein, W. R. D. Fairbairn, and D. W. Winnicott, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 244, $30.00.

Richard L. Golden and Charles G. Roland (eds.), Sir William Osler, an annotated bibliography with illustrations, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1988, 4to, pp. xv, 214, $100.00.

Edward M. Hundert, Philosophy, psychiatry and neuroscience: three approaches to the mind. A synthetic analysis of the varieties of human experience, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xiii, 346, illus., £30.00.

Daniel Bovet, Une chimie qui guérit: histoire de la découverte des sulfamides, Médecine et sociétés, Paris, Payot, 1989, 8vo, pp. 322, Fr. 198.00, (paperback).

Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of my nervous illness, ed. and trans. Ida Macalpine and Richard A. Hunter, with a new Introduction by Samuel M. Weber, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. liv, 416, £10.50, (paperback).

Index

Index

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M. Anne Crowther and Brenda White, On soul and conscience: the medical expert and crime. 150 years offorensic medicine in Glasgow, Aberdeen University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xviii, 169, illus., £14.50, £7.95, (paperback).

Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers, Coroners' records in England and Wales, Birmingham, Federation of Family History Societies, 1988, 8vo, pp. 48, £1.50 (paperback).

Paul Williams, Greg Wilkinson, and Kenneth Rawnsley (eds.), The scope of epidemiological psychiatry: essays in honour of Michael Shepherd, London and New York, Routledge, 1989, 8vo, pp. xiv, 536, £33.00.

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