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Volume 27 - Issue 4 - October 1983

Articles

The scientific activities of Alexander Fleming, other than the discovery of penicillin

Dr Thomas Hodgkin, Dr Martin Delany, and the “Return to Africa”

Man and body in the history of the modern age. Reflections on an international symposium in Berlin, 1–3 December 1981

Medical police. Politics and police: the fate of John Roberton

Sir Busick Harwood: A reappraisal

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. The Chain papers *

News, Notes, and Queries

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Book Review

Charles Webster, From Paracelsus to Newton. Magic and the making of modern science, (The Eddington Memorial Lectures delivered at Cambridge University, November 1980), Cambridge University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 107, illus., £12.50.

Mark M. Ravitch, A century of surgery. The history of the American Surgical Association, Philadelphia and Toronto, J. B. Lippincott; London, Harper & Row, 1981, 2 vols., 4to, pp. xliii, 817; viii, 818-1613, £135.00 per set.

Jean-Pierre Goubert (editor), La medicalisation de la societe franqaise 1770–1830, Waterloo, Ontario, Historical Reflections Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. 304, $Cdn.19.00 ($8.00 paperback).

W. J. Sheils (editor), The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19), OxfordBasil Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 440, £19.50.

Christopher J. Maggs, The origins of general nursing, London, Croom Helm, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 183, £12.95.

James C. Whorton, Crusaders for fitness. The history of American health reformers, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1982, (reprint of 1942 ed.), 8vo, pp. xi, 359, illus., £14.60.

Reinhard Spree, Soziale Ungleichheit vor Krankheit und Tod. Zur Socialgeschichte des Gesundheitsbereichs im Deutschen Kaiserreich, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981, 8vo, pp. 208, DM. 17.80 (paperback).

L. C. Palm and H. A. M. Snelders (editors), Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1982, 8vo, pp. 212, illus., Dfl. 50.00 (paperback).

Georges Didi-Huberman, Invention de l'hystiérie. Charcot et l'iconographie photographique de la Salpêtriiere, Paris, Editions Macula, 1982, 8vo, pp. 303, illus., Fr. 1 10.00 (paperback).

Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine, Three hundred years of psychiatry 1535–1860, [reprint], Hartsdale, NY, Carlisle Publishing Inc., 1982, 8vo, pp. xxvi, 1107, illus., $95.00.

Vincent Brome, Ernest Jones: Freud's alter ego, London, Caliban Books, 1982, 8vo, pp. vii, 250, illus., £12.00.

Rudolf Schumacher, Die Musik in der Psychiatrie des 19. Jahrhunderts, (Marburger Schriften zur Medizingeschichte, No. 4), Frankfurt a.M. and Berne, Peter Lang, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 191, SFr. 49.00 (paperback).

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