La medicina española antigua y medieval

structure to concepts in biology to the social make-up of the German professoriate to the academic policy of the State. This is material of undoubted importance, not least in relation to Paul Forman's views on German physics, and one hopes to see it developed and refined in future. There are two papers of particular relevance to medical historians: Brian Harrison's provocative and elegantly written refutation of the contention that improvements in women's health owed anything substantial to the feminist movement, and Carol Dyhouse's account of medical men's attitudes to working-class mothers in relation to infant mortality. Taken as a whole, this is a collection of unusually high quality and inherent interest. Among its other functions, it might well be used as a source-book of problems (if not solutions) in the historical sociology of scientific knowledge. Steven Shapin Science Studies Unit Edinburgh University