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7S. E. D. Shortt. Victorian Lunacy. Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 207. ISBN 0-521-30999-9. Price £25.00, $29.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 21 (1): 120-120. 1988.
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18Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 292. ISBN 978-0-674-02424-3. £20.95 .S. Peter Harper, A Short History of Medical Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. ix+557. ISBN 978-0-19-518750-2. £22.99 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 43 (2): 317-319. 2010.
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16Physic and Philanthropy: A History of the Wellcome Trust, 1936-1986. A. Rupert Hall, B. A. BembridgeIsis 79 (2): 318-319. 1988.
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44Museological Science? The Place of the Analytical/Comparative in Nineteenth-century Science, Technology and MedicineHistory of Science 32 (2): 111-138. 1994.
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64Essay Review: Science in France: Lamarck, Science and Medicine in France: The Emergence of Experimental Physiology 1790–1855, Death is a Social Disease: Public Health and Political Economy in Early Industrial France, Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France, Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France (review)History of Science 26 (2): 201-211. 1988.
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34Bureaucracy, Liberalism and the Body in Post-Revolutionary France: Bichat's Physiology and the Paris School of MedicineHistory of Science 19 (2): 115-142. 1981.
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19Ferriar's Fever to Kay's Cholera: Disease and Social Structure in CottonopolisHistory of Science 22 (4): 401-419. 1984.
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11Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Organized Medicine in the Progressive Era. The Move toward Monopoly. By James G. Burrow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 218. £9.75 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 13 (3): 276-276. 1980.
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16Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Guenter B. RisseIsis 78 (1): 113-113. 1987.
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Organized Medicine in the Progressive Era. The Move toward Monopoly (review)British Journal for the History of Science 13 (3): 276-276. 1980.
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1Terrie M. Romano, Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17 (3): 315-316. 2003.
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3“some Manchester Sources For The History Of Science, Technology And Medicine, With Special Reference To The John Rylands University Library Of Manchester,”Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 71 (2): 141-158. 1989.
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31On knowing, acting, and the location of technoscience: A response to Barry BarnesPerspectives on Science 13 (2): 267-278. 2005.
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17Matthew Ramsay, Professional and Popular Medicine in France, 1770–1830. The Social World of Medical Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xvii + 406. ISBN 0-521-30517-9. £35 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 26 (3): 365-365. 1993.
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27How might we map the cultural fields of science? Politics and organisms in restoration FranceHistory of Science 37 (117): 347-364. 1999.
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15Working Knowledges Before and After circa 1800Isis 98 (3): 489-516. 2007.ABSTRACT Historians of science, inasmuch as they are concerned with knowledges and practices rather than institutions, have tended of late to focus on case studies of common processes such as experiment and publication. In so doing, they tend to treat science as a single category, with various local instantiations. Or, alternatively, they relate cases to their specific local contexts. In neither approach do the cases or their contexts build easily into broader histories, reconstructing changing …Read more
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11Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne , Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. vii+229. ISBN 0-521-43268-5. £35.00, $59.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 31 (1): 63-102. 1998.
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7Sketching Together the Modern Histories of Science, Technology, and MedicineIsis 102 (1): 123-133. 2011.ABSTRACT This essay explores ways to “write together” the awkwardly jointed histories of “science” and “medicine”—but it also includes other “arts” (in the old sense) and technologies. It draws especially on the historiography of medicine, but I try to use terms that are applicable across all of science, technology, and medicine (STM). I stress the variety of knowledges and practices in play at any time and the ways in which the ensembles change. I focus on the various relations of “science” and…Read more
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7Observations on observations (review)British Journal for the History of Science 45 (4): 671-675. 2012.
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6Medical Education in the Age of Improvement: Edinburgh Students and Apprentices, 1760-1826 by Lisa Rosner (review)Isis 84 805-805. 1993.
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6Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy (review)British Journal for the History of Science 43 (1): 138-139. 2010.
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8M. Weatherall. In Search of a Cure. A History of Pharmaceutical Discovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 298. ISBN 0-19-261747-8. £19.50 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 25 (4): 493-494. 1992.
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5Helga Nowotny. Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future. Translated by Mitch Cohen. . 168 pp. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2008. $30 (review)Isis 101 (3): 689-690. 2010.
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