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Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alistarir Tough, John Hope McColl and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Selecting clinical records for long-term preservation: problems and procedures, Publication No. 5, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1933, pp. 61, £3.50 (0-9511765-3-6).

Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Between biology and medicine: the formation of intermediary metabolism, Berkeley, Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California at Berkeley, 1992, pp. iii, 114, $18.00 (0-918102-18-9)

Jeremy Taylor, Hospital and asylum architecture in England 1840–1914: building for health care, London, Mansell Publishing, 1991, pp. xiv, 274, illus., £60 (0-7201-2059-4).

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Jean-Pierre Goubert, Roselyne Rey, Jacques Bertrand, and Alexandra Laclau, Atlas de la Révolution française, 7: Médecine et santé, Paris, Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1993, pp. 88, Frs 110.00 (2-713324-999-4).

Leonard F. PeltierMD, Orthopedics: a history and iconography, Norman Orthopedic Series No. 3, Norman Surgery Series No. 6, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1993, pp. xxvi, 305, illus., $225.00 (0-930405-47-1).

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W. G. Hartley, The light microscope: its use and development, Oxford, Senecio, 1993, pp. viii, 360, illus., £40.00 (0-906931-05-9).

William Paton, Manz and mouse: animals in medical research, Oxford University Press, 1993, 2nd edition, pp. xvi, 304, £7.99 (0-19-286146-8).

Hans Daiber, Naturwissenschaft bei den Arabern im 10. Jahrhundert n. Chr.: Briefe des Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-‘Amīd (gest. 360/970) an ‘Aḍudaddaula, Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, vol. 13, Leiden and New York, E. J. Brill, 1993, pp. vi, 243, Gld. 90.00, $51.50 (90-04-09755-4).

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Arno Schmitt and Jehoeda Sofer (eds), Sexuality and eroticism among males in Moslem societies, New York and London, Haworth Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 201, £22.50 (1-56024-047-4).

Vardit Rispler-Chaim, Islamic medical ethics in the twentieth centurv, Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East, vol. 46, Leiden and New York, E. J. Brill, 1993, pp. vii, 149 (90-04-09608-6).

Magda Whitrow, Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), London, Smith-Gordon and Nishimura, 1993, pp. xxiv, 221, illus., £20.00, $40.00 (1-85463-012-1).

Anne Harrington (ed.), So human a brain: knowtledge and values in the neurosciences, Basel, Boston and Berlin, Birkhauser, 1992, pp. xxiii, 355, illus., SwFr 138.00 (hardback 0-8176-3540-8), (paperback 3-7643-3540-8).

Rolf Winau (ed.), Technik und Medizin, Technik und Kultur vol. 4, Düsseldorf, VDI Verlag, 1993, pp. xviii, 340, DM 148.00 (3-18-400864-9).

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