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Volume 25 - Issue 3 - July 1981

Articles

Bureaucracy and mental illness: the Commissioners in Lunacy 1845–90

New light on John Woodall, surgeon and adventurer

Hydropathy in England 1840–70

A failure “without parallel”: the School Medical Service and the London County Council 1907–12

Medical knowledge and statistical methods in early nineteenth-century France

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Book Review

G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter (editors), The ferment of knowledge. Studies in the historiography of eighteenth-century science, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xiii, 500, £25.00.

Paul Potter (editor), Hippokrates Ueber die Krankheiten III, (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, 12,3), Berlin, DDR, Akademie-Verlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. 150, M.42.00.

Jean-Louis Flandrin, Families in former times. Kinship, household, and sexuality, translated by Richard Southern, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xi, 265, £14.50 (£4.50 paperback).

Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian society: women, class, and state, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. ix, 347, £15.00.

Audrey Leathard, The fight for family planning, London, Macmillan, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 293, illus., £15.00.

Elizabeth Smith, A woman with a purpose. The diaries of Elizabeth Smith 1872–1884, edited by Veronica Strong-Boag, Toronto and London, University of Toronto Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xxxviii, 298, illus., $25.00 ($10.00 paperback).

Innes H. Pearse, The quality of life. The Peckham approach to human ethology. Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xvi, 194, illus., £6.50.

Charles Lyte, Sir Joseph Banks: eighteenth-century explorer, botanist, and entrepreneur, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1980, 8vo, pp. 248, illus., £10.50.

Thomas E. Conejr., History of American pediatrics, Boston, Mass., Little, Brown, 1979, 4to, pp. xiv, 278, illus., $18.95.

Peter Davis, The social context of dentistry, London, Croom Helm, 1980, 8vo, pp. 189, £10.95.

David Thomas, Naturalism and social science. A post-empiricist philosophy of social science, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. vii, 213, £12.50 (£4.95 paperback).

Jürgen Püschel, Die Geschichte des German Hospital in London (1845 bis 1948) (Studien zur Geschichte der Krankenhauswesens, vol. 14, edited by Axel Hinrich Murken), Münster, Murken-Altrogge, 1980, 8vo, pp. 207, illus., DM. 18.00 (paperback).

Dieter Jetter, Geschichte des Hospitals, Band 4: Spanien von den Anfängen bis um 1500, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. viii, 239, illus., DM. 74.00 (paperback).

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