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French, Roger; Arrizabalaga, Jon; Cunningham, Andrew; Garcia-Ballester, Luis (Editors). Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease. (The History of Medicine in Context.) viii + 342 pp., fig., index. Aldershot, Eng./Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1998. $84.95.

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Galen. On Antecedent Causes. Edited and translated, with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson. (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 35.) xvi + 350 pp., apps., bibl., indexes. Cambridge, Eng./New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $80.

Galligan, Edward L. The Truth of Uncertainty: Beyond Ideology in Science and Literature. xvi + 188 pp., bibl., index. Columbia, Missouri/London: University of Missouri Press, 1998. $29.95.

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Herle, Anita; Rouse, Sandra (Editors). Cambridge and the Torres Strait: Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. xvi + 252 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Eng./New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $74.95.

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Marshall, John. Descartes’s Moral Theory. xiv + 177 pp., bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y./London: Cornell University Press, 1998. $35.

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