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Volume 43 - 1999

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Patricia Fara, Sympathetic attractions: magnetic practices, beliefs, and symbolism in eighteenth-century England, Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. xiii, 327, illus., £35.00, $45.00 (0-691-01099-4).

Armelie Debru and Guy Sabbah (eds), Nommer la maladie. Recherches sur le lexique gréco-latin de la pathologie, Mémoires XVII, Centre Jean-Palerne de l'Université de SaintÉtienne, 1998, pp. 244, FFrs 120.00 (2-86272-128-X).

Aidan Cockburn, Eve Cockburn, and Theodore A Reyman (eds), Mummies, disease and ancient cultures, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1998 (1st ed., 1980), pp. xxii, 402, £70.00 (hardback 0-521-58060-9), £24.95 (paperback 0-521-58954-1).

Giovanna Ferrari, L'Esperienza del passato. Alessandro Benedetti, filologo e medico umanista, Biblioteca di Nuncius, studi e testi XXII, Florence, Leo S Olschki, 1996, pp. 357, no price given (88-222-4465-6).

Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (eds), Women, science and medicine, 1500–1700, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 1997, pp. xx, 292, illus., £40.00 (hardback 0-7509-1334-7), £14.99 (paperback 0-7509-1343-6).

Hellmut Flashar, et al., Médecine et morale dans l'antiquité. Dix exposes suivis de discussions, Entretiens sur l'Antiquité Classique, vol. 43, Geneva, Fondation Hardt, 1997, pp. viii, 415, SFr 70.00.

Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews (eds), Western medicine as contested knowledge, Studies in Imperialism, Manchester University Press, 1997, pp. ix, 294, illus., £40.00 (0-7190-4673-4).

Anna Manfron (ed.), La biblioteca di un medico del quattrocento. I codici di Giovanni di Marco da Rimini nella Biblioteca Malatestiana, Turin, Umberto Allemandi, 1998, pp. 257, illus. (88-422-0814-0).

Frances Willmoth (ed.), Flamsteed's stars: new perspectives on the life and work of the first Astronomer Royal (1646–1719), Woodbridge, Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Musuem, 1997, pp. xiv, 271, illus., £45.00, $78.00 (0-85115-706-8).

Peter Murray Jones, Medieval medicine in illuminated manuscripts, London, The British Library by arrangement with the Centro Tibaldi, Milan, 1998 (original edition first published in 1984 under the title Medieval medical manuscripts), pp. 111, illus., £20.00 (0-7123-0657-9).

Änne Baumer, Bibliography of the history of biology. Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Biologie, Frankfurt am Main and New York, Peter Lang, 1997, pp. xi, 307, £40.00 (3-631-32261-5, USA 0-8204-3513-9).

Roshdi Rashed (ed.), Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science, 3 vols., London and New York, Routledge, 1996, pp. xxviii, 1105, £160 (0-415-12410-7).

Dominic Montserrat (ed.), Changing bodies, changing meanings: studies on the human body in antiquity, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. xvi, 234, illus., £45.00 (0-415-13584-2).

Nicholas J Wade, A natural history of vision, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1998, pp. xvi, 466, illus., £34.95 (0-262-23194-8).

Malcolm Barber (ed.), The military orders: fighting for the faith and caring for the sick, Aldershot, Variorum, 1994, pp. xxviii, 399, illus., £55.00 (0-86078-4338-X).

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