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Volume 42 - 1998

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Robert S Robins and Jerrold M Post, Political paranoia: the psychopolitics of hatred, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997, pp. x, 366, £20.00 (0-300-07027-6).

Bart K Holland (ed.), Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts: a scientific approach, Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. ix, 105, £39.00, $65.00 (3-7186-5928-X).

Raymond Hurt, The history of cardiothoracic surgery from early times, Carnforth, Parthenon Publishing, 1996, pp. xviii, 514, illus., £58.00 (1-85070-681-6).

Ann Jeffers, Magic and divination in ancient Palestine and Syria, Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, vol. 8, Leiden and New York, E J Brill, 1996, pp. xviii, 277, Nlg 146.00, $94.50 (90-04-10513-1).

Christopher C Sellers, Hazards of the job: from industrial disease to environmental health science, Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. xv, 331, illus., $45.00 (0-8078-2314-7).

Matthias Perleth, Historical aspects of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease), Medizin in Entwicklungsländern, Band 43, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 1997, pp. 171, illus., £22.00 (3-631-31063-3).

Paul Brodwin, Medicine and morality in Haiti: the contestfor healing power, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology 3, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvi, 240, £50.00 (hardback 0-521-57029-8); £17.95 (paperback 0-521-57543-5).

Allan Ingram (ed.), Voices of madness: four pamphlets, 1683–1796, Thrupp, Glos., Sutton Publishing, 1997, pp. xxii, 154, £18.99 (0-7509-1210-3).

G E R Lloyd, Adversaries and authorities: investigations into ancient Greek and Chinese science, Ideas in Context Series, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvii, 250, £40, $54.95 (hardback 0-521-55331-8); £14.95, $19.95 (paperback 0-521-55695-3).

Lenore Manderson, Sickness and the state: health and illness in colonial Malaya, 1870–1940, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xix, 315, illus., £40.00 (0-521-56008-X).

Martin S Pernick, The black stork: eugenics and the death of “defective” babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. xv, 295, illus., £22.95, $29.95 (0-19-507731-8).

William H Brock, Justus von Liebig: the chemical gatekeeper, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. xiv, 374, illus., £50.00, $79.95 (0-521-56224-4).

Hilde de Ridder-Symoens (ed.), A history of the university in Europe. Volume II: Universities in early modern Europe (1500–1800), Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xxv, 693, £65.00, $95.00 (0-521-36106-0).

A Susan Williams, Women and childbirth in the twentieth century: a history of the National Birthday Trust Fund 1928–93, Thrupp, Glos., Sutton Publishing, 1997, pp. xviii, 331, illus., £19.99 (0-7509-1209-X)

Kelly Hurley, The Gothic body: sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin de siècle, Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 8, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xii, 203, £30, $49.95 (0-521-55259-1).

Katherine Ott, Fevered lives: tuberculosis in American culture since 1870, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. xii, 242, illus., £18.50 (0-674-29910-8).

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