Category: Reviews
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Adam, Alison, A History of Forensic Science
Alison Adam, A History of Forensic Science (Oxford: Routledge 2016) 236 pp. £90 Hb. ISBN: 9780415856423 The history of forensics is certainly not a large field, but thus far 2016 has witnessed a bumper crop of forensic-centric history books. Alison Adam’s A History of Forensic Science joins David Arnold’s Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in…
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DeWitt, Anne, Moral Authority, Men of Science and the Victorian Novel
Anne DeWitt, Moral Authority, Men of Science and the Victorian Novel (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press 2013) 290 pp. £62.00 Hb., £19.99 Pb., $24.00 PDF. ISBN: 9781107036178 The introduction to Anne DeWitt’s Moral Authority, Men of Science and the Victorian Novel proclaims that it will focus on ‘characters who practice or study science, fictional conversations about…
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Albritton, Vicky and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District
Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016) 209 pp. £28.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-226-339986 Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson open their account of The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District, as their book is subtitled, with the work of…
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Blancke, Stefaan and Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds), foreword by Ronald L. Numbers, Creationism In Europe
Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds), foreword by Ronald L. Numbers, Creationism In Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) 296 pp. $39.95 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1562-8 ‘As insidious as it may seem, at least it’s not a worldwide movement […] I hope everyone realizes the extent to which this is a…
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Sellberg, Karin and Lena Wånggren and Kamillea Aghtan (eds), Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement
Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren, and Kamillea Aghtan (eds), Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement (Oxford: Routledge 2015) 210 pp. £60 Hb. ISBN: 9781472421272 Occasioned by the 2011 Bodies in Movement: Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in the Sciences and the Arts conference in Edinburgh, Corporeality and Culture is a collection of eleven eclectic – yet wonderfully…
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Choi, Tina Young, Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain
Tina Young Choi, Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2016) 192 pp. $65.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-472-11972-1 We live, Tina Young Choi reminds us, in an age of proliferating virtual networks, pervasive economic globalisation, and the transmission of diseases such as Ebola and influenza across…
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Spanagel, David, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York
David Spanagel, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) 288 pp. $54.95 Hb. ISBN: 9781421411040 In DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton, David Spanagel offers biographical treatments of the well-known New York politician DeWitt Clinton and the lesser-known geologist Amos Eaton and politician Stephen Van…
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Martin, Craig, Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
Craig Martin, Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History and Philosophy in Early Modern Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) 272 pp. $54.95 Hb, EPUB, MOBI, PDF. ISBN: 9781421413167 Craig Martin sets out to provide an account of early modern anti-Aristotelianism as fundamentally informed by Christian piety. This thesis is important, and the book is full of…
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Charalampous, Charis, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy and Medicine
Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy and Medicine (Oxford: Routledge 2015) 168 pp. 8 B&W illus. £90.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781138823914 Charis Charalampous’s study is a contribution to the Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture series, and examines theoretical and creative approaches to the human body as an intelligence, with…
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Catani, Marco and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience
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Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 304pp. £38.99 Hb. ISBN: 9780199383832 Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, the authors of Brain Renaissance, from Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience, take as their starting point the famous physician Andreas Vesalius, and his publication De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543).…
