Saunders is an American publisher. It is currently an imprint of Elsevier

Elsevier

Elsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....

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Formerly independent, the W. B. Saunders company was acquired by CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 in 1968, who added it to their publishing division Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Henry Holt and Company

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. When CBS exited the publishing field in 1986, it sold the academic publishing units to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Harcourt (publisher)

Harcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. The company was based in San Diego, California, with an Editorial / Sales / Marketing / Rights offices in New York City and Orlando, Florida.In 2007, the U.S...

. Harcourt was acquired by Reed Elsevier

Reed Elsevier

Reed Elsevier is a publisher and information provider operating in the science, medical, legal, risk and business sectors. It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges. It is a FTSE 100 and FT500 Global company...

 in 2000.

Saunders published the Kinsey Reports

Kinsey Reports

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 and Dorland's medical reference works

Dorland's medical reference works

Dorland's is the brand name of a family of medical reference works in various media...

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