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Volume 23 - Issue 4 - October 1979

Book Reviews

K. J. Dover, Greek homosexuality, London, Duckworth, 1978, 8vo, pp. x, 244, illus., £15.00.

Gertrude H. Eggert, Wernicke's works on aphasia. A sourcebook and review, The Hague, Paris, and New York, Mouton; West Berlin, W. de Gruyter, 1977, 8vo, pp. xv, 307, illus., DM.45.00.

Gerhard Fichtner and Helmut Siefert, Medizinhistorische Reisen. Band 2: Padua, Stuttgart and New York, Schattauer, 1978, 8vo, pp. 244, illus., DM. 16.80 (paperback).

Russell M. Jones(editor), The Parisian education of an American surgeon. Letters of Jonathan Mason Warren (1832–1835), Philadelphia, Pa., American Philosophical Society, 1977, 8vo, pp. xiv, 266, $8.00.

John Woodall, The surgions mate, 1617, a facsimile edited by John Kirkup, Bath, Somerset, Kingsmead Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 362 [facsimile], illus., £8.00.

Graphische Bildnisse des 16.-20 Jahrhunderts aus dem Portratarchiv Diepenbroick. Portrdt 2: Der Arzt, Miinster, Westfailische Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 1978, 4to, pp. 319, illus., [no price stated].

Ursula R. Q. Henriques, Before the Welfare State. Social administration in early industrial Britain, London and New York, Longman, 1979, 8vo, pp. 294, £4.50 (paperback).

John Roach, Social reform in England 1780–1880, London, Batsford, 1978, 8vo, pp. 256, £12.50.

Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove, The wise wound. Menstruation and everywoman, London, Victor Gollancz, 1978, 8vo, pp. 335, £7.95.

Anne Digby, Pauper palaces, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, 8vo, pp. x, 266, illus., £6.95.

J. S. Cockburn(editor), Crime in England 1550–1800, London, Methuen, 1977, 8vo, pp. xiv, 364, £7.50 (paperback).

Graham Heath, The illusory freedom. The intellectual origins and social consequences of the sexual ‘revolution’, London, Heinemann Medical Books, 1978, 8vo, pp. ix, 131, £2.95 (paperback).

Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English, For her own good. 150 years of the experts' advice to women. London, Pluto Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. x, 325, £8.50 (£3.50 paperback).

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