Sally Sheard, The Passionate Economist: How Brian Abel-Smith Shaped Global Health and Social Welfare (Bristol: The Policy Press, 2014), pp. xv, 581, £40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-44731-484-4.

by information regarding the part of speech and the language, a definition, and one or more citations from archival documents, which demonstrate usage and context. The Léxico médico y farmacológico is a painstaking compilation of relevant medical and pharmacological terms – really a labour of love – that has required of its author a deep knowledge of the history of medicine, particularly of the medieval period; the history of the Kingdom of Navarre as well as Spain; the history of various languages; and a gift for paleography and codicology. Moreover, as Martín Ferreira remarks, the lexicon is singular in scope and unique in a developing field, focused not on a specific area of medicine or medical practice, but on the broad range of medical and pharmacological terminology as revealed in the documents at hand. Because of its breadth and detail, the Léxico médico y farmacológico will allow for a deeper understanding of not just the language but also the history of science, of mentalités, and of habits and customs of a particular place at a particular time. As such, it will be of great interest to historians, particularly medievalists and/or historians of science and medicine, and to philologists and linguists as well as to anthropologists.