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Volume 48 - March 2015

Book Review

Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 945. ISBN 978-0-19-969625-3. £95.00 (hardback).

Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey P. Brosco, The PKU Paradox: A Short History of a Genetic Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xxiv + 289. ISBN 978-1-4214-1131-6. £16.00 (paperback).

Carsten Timmermann, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-4039-8802-7. £53.00 (hardback).

John P. DiMoia, Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 280. ISBN 978-0-8047-8411-5. $45.00 (hardback).

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Joseph November, Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 344. ISBN 978-1-4214-0468-4. £31.00 (hardback).

Karen A. Rader and Victoria E.M. Cain, Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 467. ISBN 978-0-2260-7966-0. $45.00/£31.50 (hardback).

Sarah Ferber, Bioethics in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 233. ISBN 978-1-4039-8724-2. £18.99 (paperback).

Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm and Michael D. Gordin, How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 259. ISBN 978-0-226-04663-1. £24.50 (hardback).

Francis Graham-Smith, Unseen Cosmos: The Universe in Radio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 256. ISBN 978-0-19-966058-2. £20.00 (hardback).

Catelijne Coopmans, Janet Vertesi, Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar (eds.), Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 366. ISBN 978-0-262-52538-1. £24.95 (paperback).

Harry Collins, Are We All Scientific Experts Now?Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 144. ISBN 978-0-7456-8204-4. £9.99 (paperback).

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Book review: Sarah Ferber, Bioethics in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 233. ISBN 978-1-4039-8724-2. £18.99 (paperback). – CORRIGENDUM

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