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Volume 40 - 1996

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Derek A Dow (comp.), Annotated bibliography for the history of medicine & health in New Zealand, Dunedin, The Hocken Library, University of Otago, 1994, pp. xx, 322, illus., NZ$39.50 (+p&p). Available from the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Harold D Langley, A history of medicine in the early U.S. navy, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, pp. xix, 435, illus., £41.50 (0-8018-4876-8).

Zbigniew Szydlo, Water which does not wet hands: the alchemy of Michael Sendivogius, Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute for the History of Science, 1994, pp. xiv, 300, illus., £14.95 (83-86062-45-2). (Distributed by White Eagle Publications, 24B Broadlands Road, London N6 4AG).

Manfred Wenzel (ed.), Samuel Thomas Soemmerring in Kassel (1779–1784), Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Goethezeit, Soemmerring-Forschungen, vol. 9, Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer, 1994, pp. 483, illus., DM 148.00 (3-437-11626-6).

Jordan Goodman, Paul E Lovejoy and Andrew Sherratt (eds), Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology, London and New York, Routledge, 1995, pp. xii, 244, £35.00 (0-415-09039-3).

Piyo Rattansi and Antonio Clericuzio (eds), Alchemy and chemistry in the 16th and 17th centuries, International Archives of the History of Ideas No. 140, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, pp. xiv, 208, £72.50, $105.00, Dfl. 185.00 (0-7923-2573-7).

L S Jacyna, Philosophic Whigs: medicine, science and citizenship in Edinburgh 1789–1848, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1994, pp. vii, 213, £50.00 (0-415-03614-3).

Ann Oakley and A Susan Williams (eds), The politics of the welfare state, London, UCL Press, 1994, pp. viii, 232, illus., £35.00 (hardback 1-85728-205-1), £12.95 (paperback 1-85728-206-X).

Martin Dinges and Thomas Schlich (eds), Neue Wege in der Seuchengeschichte, Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Beiheft 6, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1995, pp. 251, DM 74.00 (3-515-06692-6).

W F Bynum and B Fantini (eds), Malaria and ecosystems: historical aspects. Proceedings of a Rockefeller Foundation conference, Bellagio, 18–22 October 1993, Parassitologia, 1994, 36(1-2), pp. 227, no price given.

Arthur MacGregor (ed.), Sir Hans Sloane: collector, scientist, antiquary, London, British Museum Press in association with Alistair McAlpine, 1994, pp. 308, illus., £50.00 (0-7141-2085-5).

David E Leary (ed.), Metaphors in the history of psychology, Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xiii, 383, £37.50, $69.95 (hardback 0-521-37166-X); £12.95, $17.95 (paperback 0-521-42152-7).

Linda Bryder, Derek A Dow (eds), New countries and old medicine: proceedings of an international conference on the history of medicine and health, Auckland, New Zealand 1995, Auckland, Pyramid Press, 1995, pp. xvi, 428, illus., NZ $30 (+p&p), Australia $10, rest of world $15 (0-9597871-3-5).

Laura Otis, Organic memory: history and the body in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Texts and Contexts, vol. 11, Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 1994, pp. xiii, 297, £35.00 (0-8032-3561-5).

Soma Hewa, Colonialism, tropical disease and imperial medicine: Rockefeller philanthrophy in Sri Lanka, Lanham, MD, University Press of America, pp. x, 205, illus., $38.50 (0-8191-9939-7).

Jacques Roger, Pour une histoire des sciences à part entière, Paris, Albin Michel, 1995, pp. 475, no price given (2-226-07649-2).

Vivian Nutton and Roy Porter (eds), The history of medical education in Britain, Clio Medica, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1995, pp. x, 379, Hfl. 160.00, $100.00 (hardback 90-5183-571-X); Hfl. 50.00 $31.00 (paperback 90-5183-611-2).

Richard Creese, W F Bynum and J Bearn (eds), The health of prisoners: historical essays, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA Rodopi, 1995, pp. ix, 184, Hfl. 35.00, $23.50 (90-5183-869-7).

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