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Volume 26 - Issue 4 - October 1982

Book Review

A. G. Morton, History of botanical science, London and New York, Academic Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xii, 474, illus., £8.80 (paperback).

S. M. Walters, The shaping of Cambridge botany, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 4to, pp. xv, 12 1, illus., £17.50.

George Corner, The seven ages of a medical scientist. An autobiography, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. x, 41 1, [no price stated].

Ronald L. Numbers and Judith Walzer Leavitt (editors), Wisconsin medicine. Historical perspectives, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 212, illus., $18.50.

Uffe J. Jensen and Rom Harre (editors), The philosophy of evolution, Brighton, Harvester Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. vii, 299, £22.50;.

Wolfgang Huebner, Die Eigenschaften der Tierkreiszeichen in der Antike. Ihre Darstellung und Verwendung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Manilius, (Sudhoffs Archiv, Supplement XXII), Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1982, 8vo, pp. xi, 646, DM. 218.00.

Erich Dinkler, Christus und Asklepios, Heidelberg, Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. 40, illus., [no price stated], (paperback).

Henk J. Klasen, History of free skin grafting. Knowledge or empiricism?, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York, Springer-Verlag, 1981, 8vo, pp. xii, 190, illus., DM. 70.00/$35.50.

François Jacob, The possible and the actual, Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 71, £6.30.

Ronald Gibson, The family doctor, his life and history, London, Allen & Unwin, 1982, 8vo, pp. xv, 214, illus., £9.50.

Geoffrey B. A. M. Finlayson, The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury 1801–1885, London, Eyre Methuen, 1981, 8vo, pp. 639, £19.50.

Michael Rose, Curator of the dead. Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), doctor and campaignerfor human rights, London, Peter Owen, 1981, 8vo, pp. 148, illus., £9.50.

John Z. Bowers, When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan, (Henry E. Sigerist Supplements to the Bulletin ofthe History ofMedicine, No. 8), Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 173, £8.50.

Erna Lesky, Meilensteine der Wiener Medizin. Grosse Äzte Österreichs in drei Jahrhunderten, Vienna, Verlag Wilhelm Maudrich, 1981, 4to, pp. 251, illus. Ös. 980.00.

John L. Thornton, Jan van Rymsdyk, medical artist of the eighteenth century, Cambridge, Oleander Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. ix, 111, illus., £9.95.

Eric G. Baxter Dr. Jephson of Leamington Spa, (edited by Joan Lane and Robert Bearman), Leamington Spa, Warwickshire Local History Society, 1980, 8vo, pp. xii, 104, illus., £4.25 (paperback). (Obtainable from the Society, 47 Newbold Terrace, Leamington Spa, Warwicks. CV32 4EZ.)

Karl Y. Ouggenheim, Nutrition and nutritional diseases. The evolution of concepts, Lexington, Mass., and Toronto, Collamore Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xii, 378, illus., [no price stated].

Michael Mitterauer and Reinhard Sieder, The European family. Patriarchy and partnership from the Middle Ages to the present, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, pp. xv, 235, £16.00 (£7.50 paperback).

Todd L. Savitt, Medicine and slavery. The health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia, Urbana, Chicago, and London, University of Illinois Press, 1981 (first published 1978), 8vo, pp. [xiv], 332, £4.50 (paperback).

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