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Volume 20 - October 1976

Book Reviews

Theodore Burang, The Tibetan art of healing, London, Watkins, 1974, 8vo, pp. ix, 117, £1.50 (paperback).

John Emery Murdoch and Edith Dudley Sylla (editors), The cultural context of medieval learning, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 566, $49.00 ($28.00 paperback).

John Neubauer, Bifocal vision. Novalis' philosophy of nature and disease, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1971, 8vo, pp. [x], 194, $7.75.

Derek Denny-Brown (editor), Centennial anniversary volume of the American Neurological Association 1875–1975, New York, Springer, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 610, illus., $30.00.

Otto Mazal, Eva Irblich and István Németh, Wissenschaft im Mittelalter: Austellung von Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, 1975, pp. 296, illus., [no price stated].

Beverley M. Barrows, A county and its health, A history of the development of the West Riding health services 1889–1974, [Wakefield], The Health Committee of the West Riding County Council, 1974, 8vo, pp. viii, 249, illus., [no price stated].

Richard J. Bonnie and Charles H. WhitebreadII, The marihuana convinction. A history of marihuana prohibition in the United States, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiv, 368, illus., $12.50.

Geoffrey W. Oxley, Poor relief in England and Wales 1601–1834, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1974, 8vo, pp. 159, £4.95.

E. D. Phillips, Greek medicine, London, Thames & Hudson, 1973, 8vo, pp. 240, illus., £4.50.

F. Kholeif, Avicenna on psychology, a study of his poem on the soul (al-qasīdah al-'ayniyyah), Beirut, Arab University Press, 1974, pp. 186 (Arabic) + pp. 3–5 (foreword in English), [no price stated].

Karl E. Rothschuh (editor), Was ist Krankheit? Erscheinung, Erklarung, Sinnegebung, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1975, 8vo, pp. vii, 492, [no price stated].

John Kobler , Ardent spirits. The rise and fall of prohibition, London, Michael Joseph, 1973, 8vo, pp. 386, illus., £5.00.

R. M. Jurjevich, The hoax of Freudism. A study of brainwashing the American professionals and laymen, Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1974, 8vo, pp. xi, 528, $10.50.

Anthony Dent (editor), The horse through fifty centuries of civilization, London, Phaidon Press, 1974, 4to, pp. 288, illus., £8.95.

Rowland Ryder, Edith Cavell, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 278, illus., £4.95.

Richard D. French, Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. [xiii], 452, illus., £10.50, (£4.95 paperback).

Noel G. Coley, From animal chemistry to biochemistry, Amersham, Bucks, Hulton Education Publishing, 1973, 8vo, pp. 272, illus., £2.20 (paperback).

Guenther B. Risse (editor), Modern China and traditional medicine, Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1973, 8vo, pp. viii, 167, $8.95.

Ari Kiev (editor), Magic, faith and healing. Studies in primitive psychiatry today, New York and London, The Free Press [Collier Macmillan], 1974, [1964], 8vo, pp. xvii, 475, £1.75 (paperback).

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