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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 34 - 1990

Book Reviews

Mary Cowling, The artist as anthropologist: the representation of type and character in Victorian art, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 4to, pp. xxii, 391, illus., £50.00, $69.50.

A. Meredith John, The plantation slaves of Trinidad, 1783–1816: a mathematical and demographic enquiry, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xxi, 259, illus., £25.00, $39.50.

John T. Alexander, Catherine the Great: life and legend, Oxford University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 418, illus., $24.95, £16.95.

Mirko D. Grmek, Histoire du Sida: début et origine d'une pandémie actuelle, Médecine et sociétés, Paris, Payot, 1989, pp. 393, illus., Fr. 98.00 (paperback).

Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles: an annotated, historical biobibliography and index, Metuchen NJ and London, Scarecrow Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xviii, 431, £47.25. Dist. Bailey Bros & Swinfen Ltd., Folkestone.

R. M. Murray and T. H. Turner (eds.), Lectures on the history of psychiatry: the Squibb series, London, Gaskell (an imprint of the Royal College of Psychiatrists), 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 223, illus., £10.00 (paperback).

Russell C. Maulitz and Diana E. Long, (eds.), Grand rounds: one hundred years of internal medicine, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 383, illus., £33.20.

Gunter Mann and Franz Dumont (eds.), Gehirn-Nerven-Seele: Anatomie und Physiologie im Umfeld S. Th. Soemmerrings, Soemmerring-Forschungen III, Veroff. d. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (Mainz), Stuttgart and New York, Gustav Fischer, 1988, 8vo, pp. 473, illus., DM 124.00.

Mark V. Pauly and William L. Kissick (eds.), Laura E. Roper (assoc. ed), Lessons from the first twenty years of Medicare: research implications for public and private sector policy, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xxii, 389, £27.95.

Toby A. Appel, The Cuvier-Geoffroy debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin, Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. 305, illus., £29.50.

Cynthia Eagle Russett, Sexual science: the Victorian construction of womanhood, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. 245, £15.95.

Thomas D. Brock, Robert Koch: a life in medicine and bacteriology, Berlin, Springer, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 364, illus., DM 48.00 (N. American distributor: Science Tech Publishers, Madison WI).

Pietro Corsi, Science and religion: Baden Powell and the Anglican debate, 1800–1860, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 346, £32.50/$54.50.

David Joravsky, Russian psychology: a critical history, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1989, 8vo, pp. xxii, 583, £45.00.

Ruth Harris, Murder and madness: medicine, law, and society in the fin de siecle, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 366, illus., £30.00.

C. C. Chen in collaboration with Frederica M. Bunge, Medicine in rural China. A personal account, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xix, 218, illus., $35.00.

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