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An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 26 - 1982

Book Review

Renato G. Mazzolini, The iris in eighteenth-century physiology, (Berner Beiträge zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, Neue Folge, Band 9), Berne, Hans Huber, 1980, 8vo, pp. iv, 193, illus., S.Fr. 36.00/DM. 39.00 (paperback).

Charles Coulston Gillispie, Science and polity in France at the end of the Old Regime, Princeton University Press, 1981, pp. xxii, 601, £22.30.

F. Kraupl Taylor, The concepts of illness, disease and morbus, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. ix, 131, £6.50.

Appendices

V The pessimistic interpretation of “know thyself”

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Kenneth Dewhurst, Willis's Oxford lectures, Oxford, Sandford Publications, 1980, 8vo, pp. x, 182, illus., £9.00.

F. C. Rose and W. F. Bynum (editors), Historical aspects of the neurosciences. A Festschrift for Macdonald Critchley, New York, Raven Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xix, 537, illus., $78.00.

John Block Friedman, The monstrous races in medieval art and thought, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xiii, 268, illus., £14.00.

Beryl Rowland (editor), Medieval woman's guide to health: the first English gynecological handbook, London, Croom Helm, 1981, 8vo, pp. xvii, 192, illus., £10.95.

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Index

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Nancy G. Siraisi, Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils, Princeton University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 461, £17.80.

Danielle Jacquart, Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle, Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1981, 8vo, pp. 487, [no price stated], (paperback).

Russell N. Dejong, A history of American neurology, New York, Raven Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. [vi], 157, illus., $23.80.

Luke E. Demaitre, Doctor Bernard de Gordon: professor and practitioner, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1980, 8vo, pp xii, 236, $18.00.

Betty Cowell and David Wainwright. Behind the blue door. The history of the Royal College of Midwives 1881–1981, London, Bailliere Tindall, 1981, 8vo, pp. 111, illus., £2.50 (paperback).

Front matter

MDH volume 26 supplement 2 front matter

Book Review

Charles Webster (editor), Biology, medicine and society 1840–1940, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. ix, 344, £22.50.

Roger Smith, Trial by medicine. Insanity and responsibility in Victorian trials, Edinburgh University Press, 1981, pp. ix, 238, £15.00.

Nicole Gonthier, Lyon et ses pauvres au moyen-âge (1350–1500), Lyons, Editions L'Hermès, 1978, 8vo, pp. 271, illus., F.5 1.00 (paperback).

Andrew Scull (editor), Madhouses, mad-doctors, and madmen. Ther social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era, London, Athlone Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xv, 384, illus., £16.00.

Eli Sagan, The lust to annihilate. A psychoanalytic study oJ violence in Ancient Greek culture, New York, Psychohistory Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. viii, 231, $12.00.

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