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Volume 41 - 1997

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Aviva Chomsky, West Indian workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940, Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, pp. xviii, 302, £32.95 (0-8071-1979-2).

F M G Willson, Our Minerva: the men and politics of the University of London, 1836–1858, London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Athlone Press, 1995, pp. xvii, 363, illus., £45 (0-485-11479-8).

Stanton J Linden, Darke hierogliphicks: alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration, Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. ix, 373, illus., $45.00 (0-8131-1968-5).

Joanna Bourke, Dismembering the male: men's bodies, Britain and the Great War, Picturing History Series, London, Reaktion Books, 1996, pp. 336, illus., £19.95 (0-948462-82).

Wolfgang U Eckhart and Christoph Gradmann (eds), Ärztelexikon: Von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, Munich, C H Beck, 1995, pp. 439, DM/SFr 29.80 (3-406-37485-9).

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Edward A Eckert, The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe 1560–1640, Basel and London, Karger, 1996, pp. x, 180, SFR 180.00 (3-8055-6267-5).

Pauline M H Mazumdar, Species and specificity: an interpretation of the history of immunology, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xiii, 457, illus., £40.00, $64.95 (0-521-43172-7).

Danielle Gourevitch (ed.), Médecins érudits de Coray à Sigerist. Actes du colloque de Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais (juin 1994), De l'Archéologie à l'Histoire, Paris, De Boccard, 1995, pp. 230, no price given (2-7018-0095-1).

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Sieglinde Lieberknecht, Die Canones des Pseudo-Mesue: Eine mittelalterliche Purgantien-Lehre, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, Band 71, Stuttgart, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995, pp. x, 278, DM 48.00 (3-8047-1382-3).

Index

Index

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J A I Champion, London's dreaded visitation: the social geography of the Great Plague in 1665, Historical Geography Research Series No. 31, University of Edinburgh, 1995, pp. xiv, 124, £7.95 (1-870074-13-0).

Ala Young, The harmony of illusions: inventing post-traumatic stress disorder, Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. x, 327, $35.00 (0-691-03352-8).

Louis Galambos with Jane Eliot Seweli, Networks of innovation: vaccine development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xii, 273, illus., £35.00 (0-521-56308-9).

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