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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 32 - 1988

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Michael Bliss, The discovery of insulin, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987, 8vo, pp. 304, illus., £25.00.

Mary Ann Jimenez, Changing faces of madness. Early American attitudes and treatment of the insane, Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 1987, 8vo, pp. ix, 219, $25.00.

Monica E. Baly, A history of the Queen's Nursing Institute: 100 years, 1887–1987, London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1987, 8vo, pp. 157, illus., £10.95 (paperback).

Michael Warren and Huw Francis (editors), Recalling the Medical Officer of Health. Writings by Sidney Chave, London, King Edward's Hospital Fund [14 Palace Court, London W2 4HT], 1987, 8vo, pp. 200, £15.00.

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Hilary Marland (translator and editor), Mother and child were saved. the memoirs (1693-1740) of the Frisian midwife Catharina Schrader, with introductory essays by M. J. van Lieburg and G. J. Kloosterman, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1987, 8vo, pp. 88, illus., Dfl. 25.00 (paperback).

Major Greenwood, The medical dictator and other biographical essays, with an introduction by Austin Bradford Hill, London, Keynes Press (British Medical Association), 1986, 8vo, pp. xviii, 137, £40 (UK)/£43 (overseas).

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David Knight, The age of science. The scientific world-view in the nineteenth century, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, 8vo, pp. xi, 251, illus., £17.50.

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Horace W. Davenport, Fifty years of medicine at the University of Michigan, 1891–1941, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Medical School, 1986, 8vo, pp. viii, 525, illus., [no price stated].

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E. S. Leedham-Green, Books in Cambridge inventories: book-lists from Vice-Chancellor's Courtprobate inventories in the Tudor and Stuart periods, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. xli, 649, xii, 861, £150.00 the set.

Rolf Winau, Medizin in Berlin, Berlin and New York, De Gruyter, 1987, 8vo, pp. x, 374, illus., DM 128.00.

Jane M. Oppenheimer (editor), Autobiography of Dr Karl Ernst von Baer, Canton, Mass., Science History Publications, 1987, 8vo, pp. xiv, 389, front., $25.00.

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Roy Porter, Disease, Medicine and Society in England 1550–1860, Studies in Economic and Social History for the Economic History Society, Basingstoke and London, Macmillan Education, 1987, 8vo, pp. 79, £3.95 (paperback).

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