Tag: 2016
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Schaffner, Anna Katharina, Exhaustion: A History
Anna Katharina Schaffner, Exhaustion: A History (New York: Columbia University Press 2016) 304 pp. $24.00 Pb, $30.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780231172301 Anna Katharina Schaffner’s Exhaustion: A History offers a comprehensive overview of exhaustion-related conditions from antiquity until the present day. Tracing exhaustion as a medical diagnosis, a cultural phenomenon, and a vehicle of social critique, Schaffner’s…
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Whitehead, Anne and Angela Woods (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2016) 700 pp. £175 EPUB, PDF Hb. ISBN: 9781474400046 The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities is a large and well-structured volume with a great deal of ambition. The idea of the project is to move…
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Simanowski, Roberto, Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies
Roberto Simanowski, Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies, trans. Brigitte Pichon, John Cayley and Dorian Rydnystsky (New York: Columbia University Press 2016) 176 pp. $30.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780231177269 A notable feature of many recent science fiction novels is that they imagine a future for social media which is very much like its…
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Morris, Daniel, Not Born Digital: Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media
Daniel Morris, Not Born Digital: Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media (London: Bloomsbury 2016) 258pp. £88 Hb. ISBN: 9781501316708 A woman sitting next to me on the subway asked about the book that I was reading: ‘Is it good?’ I nodded. ‘I mean, is it helpful, to people who were not born digital?’ I didn’t quite…
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Thorley, David, Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain
David Thorley, Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain (London: Palgrave 2016) x + 231 pp. £45.99 PDF, EPUB, £58.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-59311-5 The title of this book immediately recalled to mind a favourite course on Early Modern autobiography from the halcyon first years of graduate school. But a quick glace at its meticulously researched,…
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Budra, Paul and Clifford Werier (eds), Shakespeare and Consciousness
Paul Budra and Clifford Werier (eds), Shakespeare and Consciousness (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016) xiv +307 pp. £45.99 PDF, EPUB, £58.00 Hb. ISBN 978-1-137-59671-0 Shakespeare and Consciousness, as the title suggests, explores issues pertaining to the works of William Shakespeare – his dramatic works, in this case – and consciousness, conceived in this study primarily through scientific…
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Tuthill, Maureen, Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine
Maureen Tuthill, Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine (London: Palgrave Macmillian 2016) 253pp. £45.99 PDF, EPUB, £58.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-59714-4 What makes a person healthy or sick? What makes a person worthy of healing? Does the responsibility for healing lie with the individual or with the community to…
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Calvin, Ritch, Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes
Ritch Calvin, Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes (London: Palgrave 2016) £52.99 EPUB, PDF, £66.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-319-32469-2 In Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes, Ritch Calvin identifies epistemology as ‘the foundation of, and central to, the question of feminist analysis’ (2), and more specifically, as it pertains to feminist science…
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Burke, Peter, What Is the History of Knowledge?
Peter Burke, What Is the History of Knowledge? (Cambridge: Polity Press 2016) 160 pp. $19.95 Pb, $59.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780745669830 Peter Burke is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge, and has published a large number of books on cultural and intellectual history. What Is the History of Knowledge? is one of…
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Beck, Ulrich, The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change Is Transforming Our Concept of the World
Ulrich Beck, The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change Is Transforming Our Concept of the World (Cambridge: Polity 2016) 200pp. £14.99 Hb. ISBN: 987-0-7456-9021-6 Ulrich Beck’s study sets out to provide a comprehensive outlook on the nature of the contemporary world. In his The Metamorphosis of the World (2016), Beck explores his mature thoughts…
