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An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 26 - 1982

Book Review

R. B. Outhwaite (editor), Marriage and society. Studies in the social history of marriage, London, Europa, 1981, 8vo, pp. viii, 284, £19.50.

Trevor H. Levere, Poetry realized in nature, CambridgeUniversity Press, 1981, pp. ix, 271, £22.50.

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.

W. F. Bynum, E. J. Browne and R. Porter (editors), Dictionary of the history of science, London, Macmillan, 1981, 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 494, £17.50.

József Antall, Pictorial history of European medicine and pharmaceutics, Budapest, Corvina Kiado, 1981, 4to, pp. 22 + 92 plates, [no price stated].

Evan M. Melhado, Jacob Berzelius, the emergence of his chemical system, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell; Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. 357, front., Sw. Kr. 225.00.

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S. E. D. Shortt (editor), Medicine in Canadian society. Historical perspectives, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xiii, 506, $23.95 ($11.95 paperback).

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

Greta Jones, Social Darwinism and English thought. The interaction between biological and social theory, Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press (New York, Humanities Press), 1980, 8vo, pp. xiv, 234, £22.50.

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

Ian R. Tyrrell, Sobering up. From temperance to prohibition in antebellum America, 1800–1860, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xii, 350 [no price stated].

John Graham Smith, The origins and early development ofthe heavy chemical industry in France, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xiii, 369, illus., £36.00.

Anthony D. King (editor), Buildings and society. Essays on the social development of the built environment, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, 4to, pp. x, 318, illus., £25.00.

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MDH volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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

Geoffrey Keynes, The gates of memory, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 428, illus., £12.50.

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MDH volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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