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Volume 33 - 1989

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Georges Vigarello, Concepts of cleanliness: changing attitudes in France since the Middle Ages, trans. Jean Birrell, Past and Present Publications, Cambridge University Press, and Paris, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 239, £25.00/$39.50.

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Thomas Mckeown, The origins ofhuman disease, Oxford and New York, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. vi, 233, £22.50.

Galen, On examination by which the best physicians are recognized, edition of the Arabic version with English translation and commentary by Albert Z. Iskandar, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum Supplementum Orientale IV, Berlin, DDR, Akademie Verlag, 1988, 8vo, pp. 213, DM 98.00.

Paul Potter, A short handbook of Hippocratic medicine, Sillery, Québec, Les Éditions du Sphinx, 1988, 8vo, pp. 60, illus., [no price stated], (paperback).

James T. Patterson, The dread disease: cancer and modern American culture. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp xiii, 380, illus., $25.95 (US), £20.75/$31.25 (Europe).

Mirko D. Grmek, Diseases in the ancient Greek world, trans. Mireille Muellner and Leonard Muellner, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 458, £29.00.

Roger Rolls, with photographs by Clive Quinnell, The hospital of the nation. The story of spa medicine and the Mineral Water Hospital of Bath, Bath, Bird Publications, 1988, 4to, pp. x, 181, illus., £18.50.

Ralph Jackson, Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire, London, British Museum Publications, 1988, 8vo, pp. 208, illus., £17.50.

Aline Rousselle, Porneia: on desire and the body in antiquity, trans. Felicia Pheasant, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. x, 213, £19.95.

Guy Sabbah, Pierre-Paul Corsetti, and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (editors), Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et haut moyen âge, Centre Jean-Palerne, Mémoires 6, St. Étienne, Publications de l'Université de St. Étienne, 1987, 8vo, pp. 174, [no price stated], (paperback).

Howard Clark Kee, Medicine, miracle and magic in New Testament times, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 55, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. x, 175, £L0.95/$12.95, (paperback).

F. J. J. Van Assen and others (editors), Een eeuw vrouwenarts, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1987, 8vo, pp. 313, illus., Dfl. 39.00.

Jacques Gélis, La sage-femme ou le medecin. Une nouvelle conception de la vie, Paris, Fayard, 1988, 8vo, pp. 560, illus., Fr. 150.00, (paperback).

Achim Keller, Die Abortiva in der römischen Kaiserzeit, with an Introduction by Rudolf Schmitz, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, Bd. 46, Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1988, 8vo. pp. ix, 300, DM 58.00, (paperback).

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