This issue includes six articles: "Socio-cultural attitudes towards Hansen's disease (leprosy)" by Wayne Parris; "Computer applications in anthropology" by David Voran and Arlene Fraikor; "Two famines: the Sahel and Ireland" by Jim Knight; "The estrogen mystique or menstruation in cultural context" by Martha P. Houston; "Human variability: a discussion of life-span and longevity" by Alice M. Emerson; and "Culture, kinship and hunting" by Richard P. Johnson.