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Volume 39 - April 1995

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Tony Waldron, Counting the dead: the epidemiology of skeletal populations, Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, pp. xiv, 109, £12.95 (paperback 0-471-95138-2).

Jutta Kollesch and Diethard Nickel (eds), Galen und das hellenistische Erbe, Sudhoffs Archiv, Beihefte 32, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1993, pp. 214, DM 74.00 (3–515–06084–7).

J B Lyons, Surgeon Major Parke's African joumney 1887–89, Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994, pp. xiv, 281, £19.95 (1874675-20-1).

Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (eds), Medicine and the Reformation, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. viii, 197, illus., £45.00 (0-415-08974-3).

Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas (eds), A Greek and Arabic lexicon (GALex): materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic, Fascicle 2, Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. XI, Leiden and New York, E J Brill, 1994, pp. 224, Gld. 65.00, $37.25 (90–04–09893–3).

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Frederic W Hafferty and John B McKinlay (eds), The changing medical profession: an international perspective, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. x, 261, £35.00 (0-19-507592-7).

John Burnett and Derek J Oddy, The origins and development offood policies in Europe, London and New York, Leicester University Press, 1994, pp. vi, 265, £45.00 (hardback 0-7185-1474-2), £18.99 (0-71 85-1694-X).

John Symons, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: a short history, London, Wellcome Trust, 1993, pp. iv, 63, illus., £5.00 (1-869835-34-4).

Peter Razzell, Essays in English population history, London, Caliban Books, 1994, pp. v, 229, £35.00 (1-850660-131).

Christopher Lawrence, Medicine in the making of modern Britain, 1700–1920, Historical Connections, London and New York, Routledge, 1994, pp. xi, 106, £6.99 (0-415-09168-3).

Sheila M Rothman, Living in the shadow of death: tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history, New York, BasicBooks, 1994 (distributed by HarperCollins in the UK), pp. xi, 319, £19.95 (0465-03002-5).

Allan Everett Marble, Surgeons, smallpox, and the poor: a history of medicine and social conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749–1799, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993, pp. xvi, 356, £33.95 (0-7735-0988-7).

John Wiltshire, Jane Austen and the body: ‘the picture of health’, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xiii, 251, £30.00 (0–521–41476–8).

Kenneth C McKeown, A tale of two citadels: memoirs of a surgeon and his times, Edinburgh and Cambridge, The Pentland Press, 1994, pp. xiv, 276, illus., £17.50 (1-85821-208-1).

Duncan Crewe, Yellow Jack and the wonn: British naval administration in the West Indies, 1739–1748, Liverpool Historical Studies 9, Liverpool University Press, 1993, pp. xiii, 321, £17.50 (0-85323-267-9).

Teresa Santander, El Hospital del Estudio (asistencia y hospitalidad de la Universidad de Salamanca), 1413–1810, Salamanca, Centro de Estudios Salmantinos, 1993, pp. 280, illus., no price given (84–86820–16–2).

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