Volume 41 - March 2008
Book Review
Akihito Suzuki, Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-520-24580-6. $49.95, £32.50 (hardback). - Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xviii +278. ISBN 0-415-30174-2. £75.00 (hardback).
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Diana Jeater, Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the ‘Native Mind’ in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1930. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. ISBN 978-0-325-07108-4. Pp. xxii+274. £54.95, $94.95 (hardback).
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Maurice Crosland, The Language of Science: From the Vernacular to the Technical. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2006. Pp. 128. ISBN 978-0-7188-3060-1. £12.50, $27.50 (paperback). - Maurice Crosland, Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c. 1700–1870. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-7546-5913-6. £60.00 (hardback).
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Michael Adas, Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 542. ISBN 0-674-01876-2. £18.95, $29.95, €25.50 (hardback).
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Ian Burney, Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+169. ISBN 0-7190-7376-6. £35.00 (hardback).
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John Carson, The Measure of Merit: Talent, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+401. ISBN 0-691-01715-8. £26.95 (hardback).
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Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa and Malcolm Dando (eds.), Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+479. ISBN 0-0674-01699-8. £37.95, €51.00, $59.95 (hardback).
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Felix Driver and Luciana Martins (eds.) Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+279. ISBN 0-226-16472-1. $25.00, £16.00 (paperback). - David Arnold, The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+298. ISBN 0-295-98581-X. $50.00, £32.95 (hardback).
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David Buisseret (ed.) The Oxford Companion to World Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Vol. 1. Pp. xxviii+478. Vol. 2. Pp. vii+501. ISBN 978-0-19-514922-7, 0-19-514922-X. £140.00 (hardback).
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Chandak Sengoopta, The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands and Hormones, 1850–1950. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+354. ISBN 0-226-74863-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback). - Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+328. ISBN 0-674-01896-6. £24.95, $39.95 (hardback).
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Sean F. Johnston, Holographic Visions: A History of New Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi+518. ISBN 0-19-857122-4. £75.00 (hardback).
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Ralph O'Connor, The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+541. ISBN 978-0-226-61668-1. £23.50 (hardback).
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Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. Tr. Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+399. ISBN 978-0-674-02316-1. $29.95, £19.95, €25.50 (hardback).
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Bart Grob and Hans Hooijmaijers (eds.), Who Needs Scientific Instruments? Conference on Scientific Instruments and their Users, 20–22 October 2005. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2006. Pp. 272. ISBN 906292-158-2. No price given (paperback, includes CD-ROM).
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Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+545. ISBN 978-0-226-48118-0. $37.50, £23.50 (hardback).
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Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist (eds.) The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xv+313. ISBN 0-415-39142-3. £80.00 (paperback).
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Peter Broks, Understanding Popular Science. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006. Pp. xi +183. ISBN 0-335-21548-3. £17.99 (paperback).
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T. K. Johansen, Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. vi+218. ISBN 0-521-79067-0. £45.00 (hardback). - Monte Ransome Johnson, Aristotle on Teleology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+339. ISBN 0-19-928530-6. £45.00 (hardback).
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G. E. R. Lloyd, Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x+320. ISBN 0-86078-993-4. £60.00 (hardback).
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A. D. Morrison-Low, Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xvi+408. ISBN 978-0-7546-5758-3. £55.00 (hardback).
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