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Carlos J Larrain, Galens Kommentar zu Platons Timaios, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde vol. 29, Stuttgart, B G Teubner, 1992, pp. 272, DM 72.00 (3-519-07478-8).

Jacques Gasser, Aux origines du cerveau moderne: localisations, langage et mémoire dans l'oeuvre de Charcot, Penser la Médecine, Paris, Fayard, 1995, pp. 335, FFr 140.00.

Russell G Smith, Medical discipline: the professional conduct jurisdiction of the General Medical Council, 1858–1990, Oxford Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. xlvi, 397, £40.00 (0-19-825795-3).

Harold J Cook, Trials ofan ordinary doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in seventeenth century London, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp. xviii, 301, illus., £37.00 (0-8018-4778-8).

Galien, L'Âme et ses passions, Introduction and translation by Vincent Barras, Terpsichore Birchler, Anne-France Morand, Preface by Jean Starobinski, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1995, pp. lviii, 155, FFr 130.00 (2-25-33926-4).

H A Snellen, Willem Einthoven (1860–1927): father of electrocardiography: life and work, ancestors and contemporaries, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 140, illus., £24.50, $40.00, Dfl 60.00 (0-7923-3274-1).

Jonathan Sawday, The body emblazoned: dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture, London and New York, Routledge, 1995, pp. xii, 327, illus., £35.00 (0-415-)4444-8).

Ellen Singer More and Maureen A Milligan (eds), The empathic practitioner: empathy, gender and medicine, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1994, pp. vii, 266, $45.00 (hardback 0-8135-2118-1), $18.00 (paperback 0-8135-2119-X).

Olav Thulesius, Nicholas Culpeper: English physician and astrologer, New York, St Martin's Press, 1992, pp. xi, 210, illus., £45.00(0-312-07543-X).

Mary Bruins Allison, Doctor Mary in Arabia, ed. Sandra Shaw, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1994, pp. xxxiv, 329, illus., $42.50 (hardback 0-292-70454-2), $17.95 (paperback 0-292-70456-9).

Louis J AciernoMD, The history of cardiology, London and New York, Parthenon Publishing Group, 1994, pp. ix, 758, illus., £65.00 (1-85070-339-6).

Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester, The archaeology of disease, 2nd ed., Far Thrupp, Glos., Alan Sutton, and Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. x, 243, illus., £25.00 (0-7509-0595-6).

Sandra Cavallo, Charity and power in early modem Italy: benefactors and their motives in Turin, 1541–1789, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xv, 280, illus., £45 (hardback 0-521-46091-3); £17.95 (paperback 0-521-48333-6).

David S Barnes, The making of a social disease: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995, pp. xiv, 305, illus., $42.00 (0-520-08772-0).

Adrian Wilson, The making of manmidwifery: childbirth in England, 1660–1770, London, UCL Press, 1995, pp. xii, 239, illus., £40.00 (1-85728-292-2).

Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie, Tinothy Raylor (eds), Samuel Hartlib and universal refonnation: studies in intellectual communication, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xix, 372, £40.00, $59.95 (0-521-45252-X).

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