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Peter Melville Logan, Nerves and narratives: a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1997, pp. xvii, 248, £32.00. $40.00 (hardback 0-520-20473-5); £12.95, $16.00 (paperback 0-520-20775-0).

Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, Roger French, The great pox: the French disease in Renaissance Europe, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997, pp. xv, 352, illus., £25.00 (0-300-06934-0).

Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland and Hans de Waardt (eds), Illness and healing alternatives in western Europe, Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. xi, 272, £50.00 (0-415-13581-8).

Judith Walzer Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: captive to the public's health, Boston, Beacon Press, 1996, pp. xviii, 331, illus., $14.00 (paperback 0-8070-2103-2).

Andrew Cunningham, The anatomical Renaissance: the resurrection of the anatomical projects of the ancients, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1997, pp. xiv, 283, illus., £45.00 (1-85928-338-1).

Marcos Cueto, El regreso de las epidemias. Salud y sociedad en el Perú del siglo XX, Lima, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1997, pp. 256, illus., $25.00 (in the Americas), £25.00 (rest of the world) (9972-51-011-5).

Claudia Clark, Radium girls: women and industrial health reform, 1910–1935, Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. xii, 289, $49.95 (hardback 0-8078-2331-7), $17.95 (paperback 0-8078-4640-6).

Roy Porter (ed.), The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 400, illus., £24.95 (0-521-44211-7).

Wendy Perkins, Midwifery and medicine in early modern France: Louise Bourgeois, University of Exeter Press, 1996, pp. x, 170, £25.00 (0-85989-4871-1).

Tony Gould, A summer plague: polio and its survivors, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995, pp. xvi, 366, illus., £19.95 (hardback 0-300-06292-3); £12.95 (paperback (1997) 0-300-07276-7).

Linda E Merians (ed.), The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France, Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. viii, 269, illus., $39.95 (hardback 0-8131-1989-8), $19.95 (paperback 0-8131-0888-8).

Gwen Wilson (ed. Jeanette Thirwell Jones), One grand chain: the history of anaesthesia in Australia, 1846–1962, Volume 1: 1846–1934, Melbourne, The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, 1995, pp. xxi, 657, illus., A$75.00 (0646-264-87-7).

Marian Fournier, The fabric of life: microscopy in the seventeenth century, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. x, 267, illus., £39.50 (0-8018-5138-6).

Roger Cooter and Bill Luckin (eds), Accidents in history: injuries, fatalities and social relations, Clio Medica 41, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1997, pp. x, 273, Hfl. 40.00, $25.00 (paperback 90-420-0093).

Ernst Falzeder and Eva Brabant (eds), The correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, volume 2, 1914–1919, transl. Peter T Hoffer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. xlvi, 397, £28.50 (0-674-17419-4).

Nicole Hahn Rafter, Creating born criminals, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1997, pp. xi, 284, illus., $36.95 (0-252-02237-8).

Peter Fleming, A short history of cardiology, Clio Medica, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA, Editions Rodopi, 1997, pp. xviii, 241, Hfl. 35.00, $21.50 (paperback 90-420-0057-0).

Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, Crossing the Jabbock: illness and death in Ashkenazi Judaism in sixteenth- through nineteenthcentury Prague, transl. Carol Cosman, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1997, pp. xviii, 303, illus., £37.50, $45.00 (0-520-08149-8).

K D Somadasa, Catalogue of the Sinhalese manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1996, pp. 420, £30.00 (1-86983-581-6).

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