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Volume 41 - 1997

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Lawrence I Conrad (ed.), The world of Ibn Tufayl: interdisciplinary perspectives on Hayy ibn Yaqzān, Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Texts and Studies, vol. 24, Leiden and New York, E J Brill, 1996, pp. vii, 305, Nlg 150.00, $97.00 (90-04-10135-7).

German E Berrios and Roy Porter (eds), A history of clinical psychiatry: the origin and history of psychiatric disorders, London, Athlone Press, 1995, pp. xx, 684, £60.00 (hardback 0-485-24011-4), £19.95 (paperback 0-485-2411-7).

Hilary Marland, Margaret Pelling (eds), The task ofhealing: medicine, religion and gender in England and the Netherlands, 1450–1800, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 1996, pp. 317, illus., Hlf. 84.50 (90-5235-096-5).

Eric L Santner, My own private Gennany: Daniel Paul Schreber's secret history of modernity, Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. xiv, 200, illus., £16.95, $22.95 (0-691-02628-9).

Roger French and Andrew Cunningham, Before science: the invention of the friars' natural philosophy, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1996, pp. ix, 298, illus., £45.00 (1-85928-287-3).

Annemarie Kinzelbach, Gesundbleiben, Krankwerden, Armsein in der frühneuzeitlichen Gesellschaft, Gesunde und Kranke in den Reichsstädten Überlingen und Ulm, 1500–1700, Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte No. 8, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1995, pp. 496, Dm/sFr 144.00 (3-515-06697-7).

Hans-Georg Gadamer, The enigma of health: the art of healing in a scientific age, transl. James Gaiger and Nicholas Walker, Oxford, Polity Press, 1996, pp. x, 180, £39.50 (hardback 0-7456-1367-5); £11.95 (paperback 0-7456-1594-5).

Christopher Fox, Roy Porter, Robert Wokler (eds), Inventing human science: eighteenth-century domains, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1995, pp. xv, 357, £24.00, $45.00 (0-520-20010-1).

David C Lindberg, Roger Bacon and the origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages. A critical edition and English translation of Bacon's Perspectiva with introduction and notes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996, pp. cxi, 411, £60.00 (0-19-823992-0).

Lawrence I Conrad, Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, Andrew Wear, The western medical tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xiv, 556, illus., £60.00, $89.95 (hardback 0-521-47564-3), £24.95, $34.95 (paperback 0-521-47564-3).

Reginald Horsman, Frontier doctor: William Beaumont, America's first great medical scientist, Missouri Biography series, Columbia and London, University of Missouri Press, 1996, pp. xv, 320, illus., £31.95 (0-8262-1052-X).

Ute Fischer-Mauch, Zum Verhältnis Apotheker/Arzt in Hessen: Bemrühungen in Gieβien um eine Novellierung der rechtlichen Grundlagen (um 1700), Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie Band 69, Stuttgart, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995, pp. vi, 226, DM 34.80 (3-8047-1311-4).

Anne Harrington, Reenchanted science: holism in German culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler, Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. xxiv, 309, illus., £29.95, $39.50 (0-691-02142-2).

Paula Findlen, Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modem Italy, Berkeley and London, University of Califomia Press, 1996, pp xviii, 449, illus., $18.95 (0-525-20508-1).

Thomas L Hankins and Robert J Silverman, Instruments and the imagination, Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. xiv, 337, illus., $39.50 (0-691-02997).

Diana E Manuel, Marshall Hall (1790–1857): science and medicine in early Victorian society, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine (Clio Medica 37), Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA, Rodopi, 1996, pp. xiii, 378, illus., Hfl 60.00, $40.00 (90-5183-905-7).

Lance Day and Ian McNeil (eds), Biographical dictionary of the history of technology, London and New York, Routledge, 1996, pp. xiii, 844, £85.00 (0-415-06042-7).

Rosa María Medina Doménech, ¿ Curar el cáncer? Los orígenes de la radioterapia española en el primer tercio del siglo XX, Universidad de Granada, 1996, pp. 303, no price given (84-338-2176-8).

H J M Symons, H R Denham (comps), A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, vol. 4, Books printed from 1641 to 1850 M-R, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1995, pp xiii, 603, £45.00 (1-869835-75-1).

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