Medical History: Volume 21 - Issue 4

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Volume 21 - Issue 4 - October 1977

Book Reviews

James Joyce, My impossible health, or the case of James Joyce, catalogue of an exhibition, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1977, pp. v, 35, [no price stated].

John F. Kasson, Civilizing the machine. Technology and Republican values in America, 1776–1900, New York, Grossman (Viking Press), 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 274, illus., $15.00.

Nathan Rosenberg, Perspectives on technology, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. x, 353, £11.50.

Gert Preiser, Allgemeine Krankheitsbezeichnungen im Corpus Hippocraticum, Berlin and New York, W. de Gruyter, 1976, pp. xix, 138, DM. 86.

Mary P. Winsor, Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life. Issues in nineteenthcentury science, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. [5 11], 228, illus., £10.50.

Michael E. Hoare, The tactless philosopher, Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–98), Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xvi, x, 419, illus, Aus. $15.95.

J. Lawrence Pool, The Neurological Institute of New York 1909-1974, with personal anecdotes, Lakeville, Conn., Pocket Knife Press for the author, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 154, illus., $5.00 (Copies available from the author, Box 31, West Cornwall, Conn. 06796, U.S.A.)

Joseph Meites, Bernard T. Donovan and Samuel M. McCann (editors), Pioneers in neuroendocrinology, London, Plenum Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. viii, 327, illus., £11.90.

Frederic G. Worden, Judith P. Swazey, and George Adelman (editors), The neurosciences; paths of discovery, Cambridge,Mass., and London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1975, 4to, pp. xxi, 622, illus., £26.20.

Silvano Arieti (editor), American handbook of psychiatry, second edition, volume 1, Thefoundations of psychiatry, New York, Basic Books, (London, Harper & Row), 1974, 4to, pp. xiii, 1270, £22.15.

Stuart F. Spicker and H. Tristram Engelhardtjr (editors), Philosophical dimensions of the neuro-medical sciences, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1976, 8vo, pp. vi, 274, illus., $29.00.

Erasmus Darwin, The botanic garden, Erasmus Darwin, 1791, London, Scolar Press, 1973, 4to, pp. viii, xii, 214, 128, v-vii, 184, illus., £10.00.

R. B. Freeman, The works of Charles Darwin. An annotated bibliographical handlist, second edition, Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, (Folkestone, Dawson), 1977, 8vo, pp. 235, illus., £10.00.

J. R. Busvine, Insects, hygiene and history, London, Athlone Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 262, illus., £6.95.

Paul F. Cranefield, Claude Bernard's revised edition of his Introduction à l étude de la médecine expérimentale, New York, Science History Publications, 1976, 8vo, pp. xii, 1–162 and 1-163, £21.00.

David Wilson, Penicillin in perspective, London, Faber & Faber, 1976, 8vo, pp. x, 298, viii, £4.95.

Patrick Collard, The development of microbiology, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. vii, 201, illus., £6.50.

Leonard J. Goldwater, Mercury. A history of quicksilver, Baltimore Md., York Press, 1972, 8vo, pp. xi, 318, illus., $15.00.

Charles E. Rosenberg, No other gods. On science and American social thought, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiii, 273, £9.45.

George Rosen, Preventive medicine in the United States 1900–1975. Trends and interpretations, New York, Science History Publications, 1975, 8vo, pp. viii, 94, illus., [no price stated].