  The class of spherically-symmetric thin-shell wormholes provides a
particularly elegant collection of exemplars for the study of traversable
Lorentzian wormholes. In the present paper we consider linearized (spherically
symmetric) perturbations around some assumed static solution of the Einstein
field equations. This permits us to relate stability issues to the (linearized)
equation of state of the exotic matter which is located at the wormhole throat.
