Rey, Fernando, Derecho Antidiscriminatorio, Aranzadi, Navarra, 1ª ed., 2019, 373 pp., ISBN: 978-84-1308-709-2

Fernando Serrano Larráyoz, Léxico médico y farmacológico en lengua vulgar y latina de la documentación cortesana navarra (siglos XIV-XV) (Arre, Navarra: Pamiela, 2015), pp. 304, 21€, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-7681-910-4.

Over the course of numerous articles and three well-received books, Fernando Serrano Larráyoz has established himself as an important voice in discussions of the history of Navarra. Serrano Larráyoz’s particular interest is in the medieval period, while the topics to which he returns most frequently pertain to questions of diet, medicine, and health. Given the nature of his research, it comes a...

José María Borrás Llop (ed.), El trabajo infantil en España (1700-1950) (Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2014), pp. 511, €25, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-475-3797-6; ISBN: 978-84-9888-550-7.Peter Kirby, Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 224, £17.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-18-438-3884-5.

as those on deschi da parto (Italian trays given as birth gifts), or in frescoes of the birth of the Virgin Mary or of John the Baptist. One wonders whether late medieval artists knew of similar ancient Roman scenes, like those included by Berg in nicely presented black and white images. Or is it possible that medieval basins just continued to play crucial yet often overlooked roles in the huma...

Thomas Bartholin, The Anatomy House in Copenhagen, Niels W. Bruun (ed.) (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015), pp. 222, $53.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-87-635-4259-3.

The period from about 1600 to 1680 was a golden age for Danish medicine and natural philosophy as cultivated by a small but powerful group of professors at the University of Copenhagen. A network of families known as the Fincke–Bartholin–Worm clan or dynasty had a dominating influence at the Faculty of Medicine and occupied nearly all the professorships during the seventeenth century. The most ...

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750-2015 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. xiii, 378, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9769-0.

to have it and to rely on it. The price of the book, at £90, makes it inaccessible to them. I don’t know of plans to make the book more easily available in East Africa, but it is vital that this happen. In conclusion, Doyle’s analysis is subtle and rich. The body of research on which it is based is monumental. It is a book we can all rely on in moving towards the next stage in studying the prob...

Crystallography - An Introduction, 3rd ed. By Walter Borchardt-Ott. Springer, 2012. Pp. xvi + 357. Price (paperback) EUR 42.75. ISBN 978-3-642-16451-4