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Volume 34 - 1990

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George P. Milne (ed.), Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society: a bicentennial history 1789–1989, Aberdeen University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xv, 313, illus., £17.00 +£1.50 p&p from Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical Centre, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB.

Philip W. Martin, Mad women in Romantic writing, Brighton, Harvester Press, New York, St Martin's Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. x, 198, illus., £29.95.

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Charles B. Schmitt, Reappraisals in Renaissance thought, ed. Charles Webster, Collected Studies Series, London, Variorum Reprints, 1989, 8vo, pp. 330, £34.00.

William H. Huffman, Robert Fludd and the end of the Renaissance, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 8vo, pp. xii, 252, illus., £30.00.

Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting girls: the emergence of anorexia nervosa as a modern disease, Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 366, illus., £19.95, $25.00.

Geoffrey Keynes, A bibliography of the writings of Dr William Harvey 1578–1657, 3rd ed., revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English, Winchester, St Paul's Bibliographies, 1989, 8vo, pp. xvi, 136, illus., £38.00.

A. D. Morris, James Parkinson: his life and times, ed. F. Clifford Rose, History of Neuroscience, Boston, Birkhäuser, 1989, 8vo, pp. xi, 207, illus., $59.00.

Anders Brändström and Lars-Göran Tedebrand (eds.), Society, health and population during the demographic transition, Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1988, 8vo, pp. 514, SKr 215.00.

Hilary Marland, Medicine and society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780–1870, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. xxiii, 530, £40.00

Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual visions: images of gender in science and medicine between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, New York, etc., Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989, 8vo. pp. xiii, 207, illus., £19.95.

John Huxham, An essay on fevers, with an introduction by Saul Jarcho, Resources in Medical History, Canton, MA, Science History Publications USA, 1989, 8vo, pp. xxxi, 191, $15.95 (North America)/$19.95.

Jean-Pierre Goubert, The conquest of water: the advent of health in the industrial age, with an Introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, trans. Andrew Wilson, Princeton University Press and Oxford, Polity Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. iv, 293, illus., £29.50.

John Christie and Sally Shuttleworth (eds.), Nature transfigured: science and literature, 1700–1900, Manchester University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. 225, £29.95.

Arthur Wrobel (ed.), Pseudo-science and society in nineteenth-century America, Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. 245, illus., $24.00.

John R. Millburn, in collaboration with Henry C. King, Wheelwright of the Heavens: the life and work of James Ferguson, FRS, London, Vade-Mecum Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xi, 328, illus., £30.00/$55.00.

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