Book Reviews
Edward Shorter, From the mind into the body: the cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms, New York, Free Press, 1994, pp. ix, 268, $22.95 (2-928666-2).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 249-250
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
H C Erik Midelfort, Mad princes of renaissance Germany, Charlottesville and London, University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. xii, 204, illus., $22.95 (0-8139-1500-7).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 386-387
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter (eds), Doctors, politics and society: historical essays, Clio Medica 23/ Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1993, pp. ix, 311, Hfl 59.00 (90-5183-510-8).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 250-251
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, Historia de los balnearios de la provincia de Málaga, Málaga, Centro de Ediciones de la Diputación de Malaga, 1994, pp. 287, illus., no price given (84-7785-101-8).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 511-512
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Michael R McVaugh, Medicine before the plague: practitioners and their patients in the crown of Aragon 1285–1345, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. xvi, 280, £35.00 (0–521–41235–8).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 111-113
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Troels Kardel (ed.), Steno on muscles, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 84, pt 1, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1994, pp. xii, 252, illus., $25.00 (0-87169-841-2).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 387-388
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Hilary Marland (ed.), The art of midwifery: early modern midwives in Europe, The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. xvi, 234, £50.00 (0–415–06425–2).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 113-114
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Helen Jones, Health and society in twentieth-century Britain, Themes in British Social History series, Harlow, Longman Higher Education, 1994, pp. x, 204, £9.99 (paperback 0-582-00459-4).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 388-389
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Jacalyn Duffin, Langstaff: a nineteenthcentury medical life, University of Toronto Press, 1993, pp. xv, 383, illus., £39.00, US $72.00 (hardback 0-8020-2908-6), £11.50, US $22.00 (paperback 0-8020-7414-6).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 251-252
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Joseph Shatzmiller, Jews, medicine, and medieval society, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1995, pp. xi, 241, $40.00 (0-520-08059-9).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 512-513
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Kenneth J Carpenter, Protein and energy: a study of changing ideas in nutrition, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xiii, 280, illus., £30.00, $39.95 (0521-45209-0).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 389-390
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Michael Hunter (ed.), Robert Boyle reconsidered, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xviii, 231, £30.00, $49.95 (0–521–44205–2).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 114-115
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Volker Hess, Von der semiotischen zur diagnostischen Medizin: Die Entstehung der klinischen Methode zwischen 1750 und 1850, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, vol. 66, Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1993, pp. 346, DM 98.00 (3-7868-4066-0).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 513-514
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Miriam Bailin, The sickroom in Victorian fiction: the art of being ill, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. ix, 169, £30.00, $49.95 (0-521-44526-4).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 252-253
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Lynn Bindman, Alison Brading, and Tilli Tansey (eds), Women physiologists: an anniversary celebration of their contributions to British physiology, London and Chapel Hill, Portland Press, 1993, pp. ix, 166, £9.99, $15.00, (1-85578-049-6).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, p. 253
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Bulletin of Tibetology: aspects of classical Tibetan medicine, special volume of 1993, Gangtok, Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology, 1993, pp. xii, 128, illus., Rs 245.
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 514-515
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Marcos Cueto (ed.), Missionaries of science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1994, pp. xx, 171, £22.50 (0-253-31583-2).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 390-391
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Jean E Ward and Joan Yell (eds and trans.), The medical casebook of William Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1712–1800 of the town of Whitehaven in Cumberland, Medical History, Supplement No. 13, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1993, xxiv, 176, illus., £23, $38 (distributed by Professional and Scientific Publications, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 115-117
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Lawrence C Kolb and Leon Roizin, The first psychiatric institute: how research and education changed practice, Washington, DC, and London, American Psychiatric Press, 1993, pp. xx, 258, illus., $39.00 (0-88048-544-2).
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 253-254
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation
Ibn Ḥajar -'Asqalānī, Abūl-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn 'All, Badhl al-ma'ūn fi faḍl al-tā'ūn, edited by Abū Ibrāhim Kaylānī Muhammad Khalīfa, Cairo, Dār al-kutub al-athariya, 1413/1993, pp. 246, no price given.
-
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 16 August 2012, pp. 391-393
-
- Article
-
- You have access
- Export citation