Science studies are an increasingly prominent interdisciplinary body of work. Now a diverse literature, one of its most consistent and common themes is a reluctance to accept the standard model of scientific explanation (‘internalism’) that conceives scientific knowledge, and the disciplines with which it is associated, as the product of a rationality that is progressively realized over time. I...

Previous editions of this book were well received by both the students and gynsecologists for whom they were meant. The present edition shows a vast improvement in the details of the matters dealt with previously as well as in the inclusion of the recent developments of the subject. Few textbooks contain a better or more exact description of the anatomy of the female genitalia than what is give...

professor working in an institution hoary with the best traditions of scientific medicine. Recent works on such important subjects like ' Erythroblastosis Fcetalis'?Penicillin Therapy, etc., have been incorporated for the benefit of students going up for examinations. At the same time the usual paraphernalia of a textbook of obstetrics, viz, the description of the mechanism of labeur, discussio...

on the modern system, the old nomenclature is also given. The chapters on filtrable viruses, immunity, bacterial virulence, toxin, antitoxins and agglutinins are particularly good for the concise and comprehensive way in which these subjects have been dealt with. The inclusion of the more important pathogenic protozoa in a small chapter will be appreciated by the busy practitioner though it is ...

This interesting book, though arranged in the form of a textbook, really consists of a collection of papers by American surgeons, purporting to cover the whole field of general surgery. The 1695 pages of text are shared by no less than 188 writers, of whom a few have contributed less than two thousand words each. No doubt this is what makes the book so attractive; every section has an air of fr...

We report on a formalisation experiment where excerpts from an algebra textbook are compared to their translation into formal texts of the Isabelle/Isar prover, and where an attempt is made in the formal text to stick as closely as possible with the structure of the informal counterpart. The purpose of the exercise is to gain understanding on how adequately a modern algebra text can be represen...

In the preface to the First Edition of Williams' Obstetrics published in 1903 the author wrote these words: "I have attempted to set for-th as briefly as seemed to be consistent with thoroughness, the scientific basis for and the practical application of the obstetric art. . . I have endeavored to present the more practical aspects in such a manner as to be of direct service to the obstetrician...

This book of 1,000 pages (including preface, contents, etc.) gives to a medical student, medical man or a laboratory worker all that he needs. Besides bacteria it deals with spirochetes, medical micology, medical parasitology, both protozoan and metazoan, rickettsise, viruses and bacteriophage, with all essential details. This feat is made possible by reducing references to the original work to...