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Appendix V

Essay Review

Wolf Lepenies, Melancholy and society, transl. Jeremy Gaines and Doris Jones, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. xviii, 253, £31.95 (0-674-56468-5).

Book Reviews

Terence Ranger and Paul Slack (eds), Epidemics and ideas: essays on the historical perception of pestilence, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. ix, 346, £35, $49.95 (0-521-40276-X).

Essay Reviews

Charles E. Rosenberg and Janet Golden, Framing disease: studies in cultural history, Health and Medicine in American Society series, Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1992, pp. xxvi, 326, $48.00 (hardback, 0-8135-1756-7), $16.00 (paperback , 0-8135-1757-5).

Book Reviews

Charles E. Rosenberg, Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. x, 357, £35.00, $44.95 (hardback 0-521-39340-X), £11.95, $14.95 (0-521-39569-0).

Margaret Humphreys, Yellow fever and the South, Health and Medicine in American Society series, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1992, pp. x, 226, $45.00 (0-8135-1820-2).

Index

Index

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Francis Doherty, A study in eighteenth-century advertising methods: the anodyne necklace, Lewiston, NY, and Lampeter, Dyfed, Edward Mellen Press, 1992, pp. xv, 464, £49.95, $89.95 (0-7734-9177-5).

Thomas Neville Bonner, To the ends of the earth: women's search for education in medicine, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 232, illus., £27-95 (0-674-89303-4).

Front matter

MDH volume 37 supplement 13 Front matter

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F. K. Prochaska, Philanthropy and the hospitals of London: The King's Fund 1897–1990, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. xii, 308, illus., £35.00 (019-820266-0).

Roy Porter (ed.), The Faber book of madness, London and Boston, Faber & Faber, 1991, pp. xix, 572, illus., £14.99 (0-571-14387-3).

Eduard Seidler, Die medizinische Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau: Grundlagen und Entwicklungen, Berlin, New York and London, Springer Verlag, 1991, pp. xv, 618, illus., DM 98.00 (3-540-53978-6).

Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas (eds), A Greek acnd Arabic lexicon: mnaterials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Araibic, Fascicle I, Leiden and New York, E. J. Brill, 1992, pp. xxxii, 96, GId. 40.00, $23.00 (90-04-09494-6).

Peter Morris (ed.), First aid to the battlefront: life and letters of Sir Vincent Kennett-Barrington (1844–1903), Stroud, Glos., and Wolfeboro Falls, NH, Alan Sutton, 1992, pp. x, 231 illus., £14.99 (0-7509-00164).

German E. Berrios and Hugh Freeman (eds), 150 years of British psychiatry 1841–1991, London, Gaskell for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991, pp. xv, 464, illus., £15.00 (0-902241-36-2).

Alan Hodgkin, Chance and design: reminiscences of science in peace and war, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xi, 412, illus., £40.00, $59.95 (hardback 0-521-40099-6).

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