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Volume 31 - January 1987

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Alexander Kohn, False prophets. Fraud and error in science and medicine, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 226, £14.95.

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Rosemary White, The effects of the NHS on the nursing profession 1948–61, Oxford University Press for King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 1985, 8vo, pp. xix, 322, £25.00.

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Walter Pagel, From Paracelsus to Van Helmont. Studies in Renaissance medicine and science, edited by Marianne Winder, London, Variorum Reprints, 1986, 8vo, pp. xi, 350, illus., £32.00.

Charles Marx (editor), Médecine, science et technique: recueild'études redigées àl'occasion du centenaire de la mort de Claude Bernard (1813–1878), Paris, tditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984, 8vo, pp. 130, Fr.60.00.

Howard S. Berliner, A system of scientific medicine. Philanthropic foundations in the Flexner era, New York and London, Tavistock Publications, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 190, $29 95 ($12-95 paperback).

Nicholas Russell, Like engend'ring like: heredity and animal breeding in early modern England, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. ix, 271, £27.50.

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John Scarborough (editor), Symposium on Byzantine medicine (Dumbarton Oaks Papers, no. 38), Baltimore, Md., Dumbarton Oaks Publishing Service, 1985, 4to, pp. xvi, 282, illus., $40.00.

Poul Astrup and John W. Severinghaus, The history ofbloodgases, acids and bases, Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1986, 4to, pp. x, 332, illus., £23.25.

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Josef-Hans Kuhn and Ulrich Fleischer (editors), Index Hippocraticus, Fasc. I, A-△, Gottingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986, 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 200, DM. 155.00 (paperback).

Jean-Charles Sournia, Histoire de l'alcoolisme, Paris, Flammarion, 1986, 8vo, pp. 323, Fr. 125.00 (paperback).

Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt, Der junge Wilhelm Griesinger im Spannungsfeld zwischen Philosophie und Physiologie, Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 1986, 8vo, pp. 231, DM.48.00 (paperback).

Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological imperialism. The biological expansion of Europe, 900–1900, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. 368, illus., £27.50/£9.95 (paperback).

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François Delaporte, Disease and civilization. The cholera in Paris 1832, trans. by Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xvii, 250, £30.00.

Paul U. Unschuld, Medicine in China. A history of ideas, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. x, 423, £33.95.

Mira Crouch and Bernd Huppauf (editors), Essays on mortality, Sydney, University of New South Wales (Faculty of Arts), 1985, 8vo, pp. xiii, 190, no price stated (paperback).

C. G. Uragoda, A history of medicine in Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lankan Medical Association (6 Wijerama Mathawa, Colombo 7), 1987, 8vo, pp. ix, 326, illus., US $20.00.

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David A. E. Shephard, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1960–80: the pursuit of unity, Ottawa, RCPSC, 1985, 8vo, pp. xiv, 550, illus., $Cdn 20.00.

H. W. Schreiber and G. Carstensen (editors), Chirurgie im Wandel der Zeit 1945–1983, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York, Springer-Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. xviii, 419, illus., $55.20/ DM.128.00

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