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Volume 38 - October 1994

Book Reviews

Shirley Roberts, Sophia Jex-Blake: a woman pioneer in nineteenth-century medical reform, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. x, 207, illus., £40.00 (0–415–08753–8).

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The Case Books of Dr. John Snow: ”June 11, 1857-June 5, 1858”

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Helen Bush and Marek Zvelebil (eds), Health in past societies: biocultural interpretations of human skeletal remains in archaeological contexts, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 567, Oxford, Tempus Reparatum, 1991, pp. viii, 145, £20.00, illus. (0-86054-716-7).

Elisabeth Roudinesco, Madness anid revolution: the lives and legends of Théroigne de Méricourt, transl. Martin Thom, London and New York, Verso, 1992, pp. xi, 284, illus., £12.95 (paperback 0-86091-597-2).

Michael B. Tyquin, Gallipoli: the medical war. The Australian army medical services in the Dardanelles campaign of 1915, Modern History series, Kensington, NSW, New South Wales University Press, 1993, pp. xiv, 277, illus., Austral. $39.95 (0-86840-189-7).

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Appendix A

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Dan W. Brock, Life and death: philosophical essays in biomedical ethics, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. xi, 435, £40.00, $54.95 (hardback 0-521-41785-6), £13.95, $18.95 (paperback 0-521-42833-5).

Jerrold M. PostMD, and Robert S. Robins, When illness strikes the leader: the dilemma of the captive king, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1993, pp. xvi, 243, £19.95, $30.00 (0-300-05683-4).

Richard Lovell, Churchill's doctor: a biography} of Lord Morani, London, Royal Society of Medicine Services Ltd, 1992, pp. xiv, 457, illus., £25.00 (1-85315-183-1).

Alexander G. Bearn, Archibald Garrod and the individuality of man, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. xvii, 227, illus., £35.00 (0-19-262145-9).

Lindsay Wilson, Women and medic ine in the French Enlightenment: the debate over Maladies des femmes, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. x, 246, £29.00 (0-8018-4438-X)

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Appendix B

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Roselyne Rey, History of pain, translated by Louise Elliott Wallace and by J. A. and S. W. Cadden, Paris, Éditions La Découverte, 1993, pp. 409, FF198.00 (paperback 2-7071-2256-4).

J. H. P. Pafford, John Clavell, 1601–43: highwayman, author, lawyer, doctor, Oxford, Leopard's Head Press, 1993, pp. xiv, 309, £12.50 (0–904920–28–3). Distributed by Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford OX1 1HN.

Carolyn D. Williams, Pope, Homer and manliness: some aspects of eighteenth-century classical learning, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. xi, 220, £37.50 (0-415-05600-4).

Charlotte MacKenzie, Psychiatry for the rich: a history of Ticehirst private asylum, 1792–1917, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. x, 234, £45.00 (0-415-08891-7).

Stewart Wolf, Brain, mind, and medicine: Charles Richet and the origins of physiological psychology, New Brunswick and London, Transaction Publishers, 1993, pp. xix, 214, illus., £38.95 (1-56000-063-5).

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Notes on the Indexes

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Soheir A. Morsy, Gender, sickness, and healing in rural Egypt: ethnography in historical context, Conflict and Social Change series, Boulder and Oxford, Westview Press, 1993, pp. xiv, 235, £30.00 (0–8133–8166–5).

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