Medical History: Volume 21 - Issue 4

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Volume 21 - Issue 4 - October 1977

Book Reviews

Vern L. Bullough, Sexual variance in society and history, New York and London, J. Wiley, 1976, 8vo, pp. xvi, 715, £18.00.

Margaret C. Jacob, The Newtonians and the English Revolution 1689–1720, Hassocks, Sussex, Harvester Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. 288, £10.50.

Erna Lesky (editor), A system of complete medical police. Selections from Johann Peter Frank, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 469, £24.00.

David C. Lindberg, Theories of vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xii, 324, illus., £13.60.

Don R. Brothwell (editor), Beyond aesthetics. Investigations into the nature of visual art, London, Thames & Hudson, 1976, 8vo, pp. 212, illus., £9.50.

Andrew Woodfield, Teleology, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 232, £6.50.

Magda Whitrow (editor), Isis cumulative bibliography. A bibliography of the history of science formed from Isis Critical Bibliographies 1–90, 1913–1965, vol. HI: subjects, London, Mansell, 1976, 4to, pp. xviv, 678, £28.00.

E. A. E. Reymond (editor), From the contents of the libraries of the Suchos Temples in the Fayyum. Part 1. A medical book from Crocodilopolis. P. Vindob. D. 6257, Vienna, Brüder Hollinek, 1976, 4to, pp. 304, illus., [no price stated].

Deno John Geanakoplos, Byzantium and the Renaissance. Greek scholars in Venice. Studies in the dissemination of Greek learning from Byzantium to Western Europe, Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press (Archon Books), 1973, 8vo, pp. xvi, 348, $13.50.

Luisa Cogliati Arano, The medieval health handbook “Tacuinum sanitatis”, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1976, 8vo, pp. 153, illus., £10.00.

Lester D. Stephens (compiler), Historiography; a bibiography, Metuchen, N. J., Scarecrow Press, (Folkestone, Kent, Bailey Bros. & Swinfen), 1976, 8vo, pp. iv, 271, £7.65.

Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Donald Phillip Verene (editors), Giambattista Vico's science of humanity, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxix, 496, £13.30.

P. J. Perry, A geography of nineteenth-century Britain, London, Batsford, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 187, illus., £3.20 (paperback).

Arthur Kleinman, Peter Kunstadter, E. Russell Alexander, James L. Gale (editors), Medicine in Chinese cultures; comparative studies of health care in Chinese and other societies, Bethesda, Md., National Institutes of Health (Fogarty International Center), [1975], 8vo, pp. xvi, 803, $11.00.

Edward Kremers and George Urdang, History of pharmacy, fourth edition, revised by Glenn Sonnedecker, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, (Oxford, Blackwell), 1976, 4to, pp. xv, 571, illus., £19.20.

Jean Lindsay, The Scottish poor law. Its operation in the north-east from 1745 to 1845, Ilfracombe, A. H. Stockwell, 1975, 8vo, pp. 265, £2.50.

G. D. Hargreaves (compiler), A catalogue of medical incunabula in Edinburgh libraries, Edinburgh, Royal Medical Society, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 54, [no price stated].

André Armengaud, Lafamille et l'enfant en France et en Angleterre du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Aspects démographiques, Paris, Société d' Édition d'Enseignement SupÉrieur, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 193, [no price stated].

Vera Rubin (editor), Cannabis and culture, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 598, illus., $24.95. - Timothy H. H. Thoresen (editor), Toward a science of man. Essays in the history of anthropology, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 232, $14.95.