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Volume 20 - October 1976

Book Reviews

Robert Claiborne, Climate, man and history, London, Angus & Robertson, 1973, 8vo, pp.444, illus., £3.25.

Barbara G. Meyerhoff, Peyote hunt. The sacred journey of the Huichol Indians, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. 285, illus., £8.20.

Carmen Blacker and Michael Lowe (editors), Ancient cosmologies, London, Allen & Unwin, 1975, 8vo, pp. 270, illus., £5.95.

Owen Gingerich (editor), The nature of scientific discovery, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975, 8vo, pp.616, illus., $15.00.

Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey, The courage to fail. A social view of organ transplants and dialysis, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xviii, 395, illus., £7.80.

John Cule (editor), Wales and medicine. An historical survey, London, British Society for the History of Medicine (Llandysul, J. D. Lewis), 1975, 8vo, pp. xi, 249, illus., £3.00.

Michael Sanderson (editor), The universities in the nineteenth century, London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 262, £5.25.

Luis S. Granjel, El ejercicio medico y otros capitulos de la medicina española, Universidad de Salamanca, 1974, 8vo, pp. 280, (no price stated).

C. Van Der Meer, J. V. Meininger and J. Schouten, Circa tiliam. Studia historiae medicinae Gerrit Arie Lindeboom septuagenario oblata, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1974, 8vo, pp. viii, 302, illus., DF1.76.

Arnold Pacey, The maze of ingenuity. Ideas and idealism in the development of technology, London, Allen Lane, 1974, 8vo, pp. 350, illus., £5.50.

L. L. Langley, Contraception, Stroudsberg, Penn., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1973, 8vo, pp. xiii, 500, illus., £14.70.

S. K. Hamarneh, Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine andpharmacy at the British Library, Cairo, Les Editions Universitaires d'Egypte, 1975, pp. I–XVI +pp. 1–276 +fig. 1–15 +pp. 1–16 (Arabic), $8.00.

Erwin H. Ackerknecht and Heinrich Buess, Kurze Geschichte der grossen Schweizer Ärzte, Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna, H. Huber, 1975, 8vo, pp. 110, illus., DM.22.

Keith Michael Baker, Condorcet. From natural philosophy to social mathematics, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 538, £13.10.

Florencio L. Pérez Bautista, Sociedad y Medicina en la novela realista española (Cuadernos de Historia de la Medicina espanola, monografias 27), Universidad de Salamanca, 1974, pp. 140, [no price stated].

John G. Howells (editor), World history of psychiatry, London, Bailliere Tindall, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxv, 770, illus., £14.50.

Horacio Fabregajr., Disease and social behaviour; an interdisciplinary perspective, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xvii, 341, £9.00.

E. Snorrason, C. G. Kratzenstein and his studies on electricity during the eighteenth century, Odense University Press, 1974, pp. 206, illus., Dan.kr.80.

Shevawn Lynam, Humanity Dick. A biography of Richard Martin, M.P. 1754–1834, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975, 8vo, pp. xvii, 300, illus., £5.95.

J. M. C. Toynbee, Animals in Roman life and art, London, Thames & Hudson, 1973, 8vo, pp. 431, illus., £6.75.

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