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Volume 33 - 1989

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Pierre De Spiegeler, Les Hôpitaux et l'assistance à Liège (Xe-XVe siecles): aspects institutionnels et sociaux, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Liège, Fascicule CCLIX, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1987, 8vo, pp. 225, illus., [no price stated],(paperback).

Doreen E. Nagy, Popular medicine in seventeenth-century England, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 140, $12.95, (paperback).

Georgius Purkircher, Opera quae supersunt omnia, ed. Miloslaus Okal, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, new series, vol. 10, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1988, 8vo, pp. 255, £1 1.00.

David C. Goodman, Power and penury: Government, technology and science in Philip II'sSpain, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. xii, 275, illus., £30.00/$44.50.

Jane Turner Censer (editor), The papers of Frederick Law Olmstead, vol. IV, Defending the Union: the Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission 1861–1863, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xxv, 757, illus. £26.50.

G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter (eds.), Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment, Manchester University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. x, 280, illus., £29.95.

Johannes Oehme, Das Kind im 18. Jahrhundert. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte des Kindes, with contributions by Helmuth Albrecht, Ulrich Herrmann, Urte von Kortzfleisch and Gerhard Trommer, Documenta Paediatrica 16, Lübeck, Hansisches Verlagskontor, 1988, 8vo, pp. 132, illus., DM 24.00.

John P. Swann, Academic scientists and the pharmaceutical industry: cooperative research in twentieth-century America, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, pp. xi, 249, illus., £22.50.

Whitney R. D. Jones, William Turner: Tudor naturalist, physician and divine, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 8vo, pp. 223, £35.00.

Piero Camporesi, The incorruptible flesh: bodily mutation and mortification in religion and folklore, trans. Tania Croft-Murray and Helen Elsom, Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 286, £25.00/$44.50.

Anne Summers, Angels and citizens: British women as military nurses 1854–1914, London and New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988, pp. xii, 371, illus. £9.95 (paperback).

Patrizia Guarnieri, L'ammazzabambini: legge e scienza in un processo toscano difine ottocento, Microstorie 15, Turin, Einaudi, 1988, 8vo, pp. vii, 225, illus., L. 22,000.

Amalie M. Kass and Edward H. Kass, Perfecting the world: the life and times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin 1798–1866, Boston, San Diego, and New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, 8vo, pp. xxx, 642, illus., $34.95/f24.50.

Michael Collie, Henry Maudsley: Victorian psychiatrist. A bibliographical study, Winchester, St Paul's Bibliographies, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 205, illus., £30.00.

Gordon Mclachlan (editor), Improving the common weal: aspects of Scottish health services 1900–1984. A collation in honour of the late Sir John Brotherston. Edinburgh University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xviii, 635, £35.00.

William R. Paulson, Enlightenment, Romanticism and the blind in France, Princeton University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. ix, 259, £21.00.

Stephen Garton, Medicine and madness: a social history of insanity in New South Wales 1880–1940, The Modem History Series, Kensington, New South Wales University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 212, illus., A$29.95, A$19.95, (paperback).

Martha H. Verbrugge, Able-bodied womanhood: personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 297, illus., £25.00/$29.95.

Kenneth Collins, Go and learn: the international story of Jews and Medicine in Scotland, Aberdeen University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xxi, 193, £14.95.

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