Category: Reviews
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Matthews, Paul, Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness
Paul Matthews, Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness (Open Book Publishers, 2023), 144 pp. £28.95 Hb. £16.95 Pb. ISBN: 978-1-80511-046-0 (Hb) This short book will be useful to those wanting to know more about non-human consciousnesses in Science Fiction novels. Written by a Computer Science lecturer, there are…
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Schöberlein, Stefan, Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800–1880
Stefan Schöberlein, Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800–1880 (Oxford: Oxford: University Press, 2023), 280 pp. $83.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780197693681 Stefan Schöberlein’s Writing the Brain examines the ‘first century of the brain’ in nineteenth-century English and American literature. In the century preceding neuroscience’s absolute claim on the brain as an object of study, the…
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Murray, Stuart, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines
Stuart Murray, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 144 pp. £40.50 Hb. £13.49 Pb. £10.79 E-book. ISBN: 9781350172180 ‘Diagnosis and prognosis are moments that are full of words’, writes Stuart Murray, in his new monograph, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines: ‘they might be comforting, terrifying or mystifying’ (6). In his…
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Burnett, D. Graham and Justin E. H. Smith (eds), Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith (eds), Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), 376 pp. £109.00 Hb. £28.00 Pb. £28 ebook. ISBN: 9780231211185 In Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses, editors D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith…
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Small, Douglas R. J., Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930
Douglas R. J. Small, Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), 264 pp. £85.00 Hb. Open Access PDF. ISBN: 9781350400092 Cocaine is a stimulant: simultaneously addictive and destructive, used recreationally it produces intense feelings of euphoria, energy, and joy, amplifying confidence and removing inhibitions. Often seen as a vice of the affluent, it…
