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Volume 48 - March 2015

Book Review

Peter Lamont, Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 321. ISBN 978-1-107-68802-5. £19.99 (paperback).

Claire L. Jones, The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xii + 264. ISBN 978-1-84893-443-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Milena Wazeck, Einstein's Opponents: The Public Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s. Translated by Geoffrey S. Koby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-01744-3. £65.00/$99.00 (hardback).

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Maurizio Esposito, Romantic Biology, 1890–1945. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. viii + 257. ISBN 978-1-84893-430-7. £60.00 (hardback).

Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross (eds.), Science and Emotions after 1945: A Transatlantic Perspective. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 432. ISBN 978-0-226-12648-7. £28.00 (paperback).

Jonathan Toms, Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii + 262. ISBN 978-1-137-32156-5. £55.00 (hardback).

Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich (eds.), Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 374. ISBN 978-0-226-07840-3. £24.50 (paperback).

David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden (eds.), Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 367. ISBN: 978-1580464765. $125.00 (hardback).

Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 357. ISBN 978-0-19-967851-8. £10.99 (paperback).

Kersten T. Hall, The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double Helix. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 242. ISBN 978-0-19-870459-1. £18.99 (hardback).

Ruth Oldenziel and Mikael Hård, Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013. Pp. 440. IBSN 978-0-230-30801-5. £65.00 (hardback).

Lynda Walsh, Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 264. ISBN 978-0-19-985711-1. £22.50 (paperback).

Angela N.H. Creager, Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 489. ISBN 978-0-226-01780-8. £31.50 (hardback).

Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro (eds.), Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013, Pp. 296. ISBN 978-3-8442-5871-4. €37.84 (hardback).

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 300. ISBN 978-0-226-08602-6. £24.50 (paperback).

Kenneth D. McRae, Nuclear Dawn: F.E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxviii + 284. ISBN 978-0-19-968718-3. £35.00 (hardback).

Catherine Jolivette (ed.), British Art in the Nuclear Age. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xv + 275. ISBN 978-1-4724-1276-8. £70.00 (hardback).

Ruha Benjamin, People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 249. ISBN 978-0-8047-8297-5. £17.99 (paperback).

Naomi Oreskes and John Krige (eds.), Science and Technology in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. 464. ISBN 978-0-2625-2653-1. £25.95 (paperback).

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