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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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Anne Witz, Professions and patriarchy, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. x, 233, £10.99 (paperback 0-415-07044-9).
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Vivien NG, Madness in late imperial China: from illness to deviance, Norman and London, University of Oklahoma Press, 1990, pp. xiv, 204, £19.95 (0-8061-2297-8).
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Bernard Cashman, A proper house: Bedford Lunatic Asylum (1812–1860), Bedford, North Bedfordshire Health Authority (3 Kimbolton Road, Bedford MK40 2NU), 1992, pp. xii, 179, illus., £7.95 (+£11 p&p) (0-9513626-2-3).
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Wilhelm Weber and Eduard Weber, Mechanics of the human walking apparatus, transl. P. Maquet and R. Furlong, Berlin and New York, Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. xix, 273, illus., DM 168.00 (3-540-53541-1).
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Christopher Lawrence (ed.) Medical theory, surgical practice: studies in the history of surgery, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. x, 331, £45.00 (0-415-00046-7).
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Jens Lachmund and Gunnar Stollberg (eds), The social construction of illness: illness and medical knowledge in past and present, Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Beiheft 1, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1992, pp. 182, DM 68.00 (3-515-05839-7).
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John M. Riddle, Contraception and abortion from the Ancien1t World to the Renaissance, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. x, 245, illus., $39.95 (0-674-16875-5).
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W. J. Stephen,Primary health care in the Arab world, Wells, Somerset House, 1992, pp. ix, 314, (0-7291-0200-9).
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Alfons Labisch, Homo Hygienicus: Gesundheit und Medizin in der Neuzeit, Frankfurt, New York, Campus Verlag, 1992, pp. 340, DM 68.00 (3-593-34528-5).
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K. B. Roberts and J. D. W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. xx, 638, illus., £95 00 (019-261198-4).
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Tractatus simplex de cortice peruuiano: A plain treatise on the Peruvian bark (“The Stanitz Manuscript”): a late seventeenth or early eighteenth century anonymous manuscript account of the Jesuits' bark published in its original Latin text with a translation, introduction, and notesby Saul JarchoMD, Boston, The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1992, pp. vii, 116, illus., $19.00 (0-88135-176-8).
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Howard BrodyMD, The healer's power, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992,. xiii, 311, £18.95, $32.50 (0-300-05174-3).
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Richard J. Durling (ed.), Galenus Latinus II: Burgundio of Pisa's translation of Galen's ΠEPI TΩN ΠEΠONΘOTΩN TOΠΩN “De interioribus”2 vols, Ars Medica Abt. II., 6/2A, 6/2B, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1992, pp. 450, DM 178.00 (3-515-04363-2).
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Barbara Maria Stafford, Body criticism: imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine, Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 1991, pp. xxi, 587, illus., £49.50 (0-262-19304-3).
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John M. Riddle, Quid pro quo: studies in the history of drugs, Variorum Collected Studies series, Aldershot, Variorum, 1992, pp. xii, 316, £45.00 (0-86078-319-7).
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Sander Gilman, The Jew's body, New York and LondonRoutledge, 1991, pp. xii, 303, illus., £10.99 (paperback, 0-415-90459-5).
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Peter W. Graham and Fritz H. Oehlschlaeger, Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and his interpreters, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, pp. x, 212, £18.00 (0-8018-4357-X). - Gordon R. Seward, The Elephant Man, London, British Dental Association, 1992, pp. 15, illus., UK £3.99, overseas £7.00 (0-904588-35-1).
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Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Doctors' stories: the narratiive structure of medical knowledge, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. xxiii, 205, $24.95 (0-691-06888-7).
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Rachel G. Fuchs, Poor and pregnant in Paris: strategies for survival in the nineteenth century, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 325, illus., $45.00 (hardback, 0-1835-1779-6), $18.00 (paperback, 0-1835-1780).
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