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Volume 43 - June 2010

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Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Nature and Culture : Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+239. ISBN 978-07190-8114-9. £60.00 (hardback).

Helge S. Kragh, Peter C. Kjaergaard, Henry Nielsen and Kristian Hvidfelt Nielsen, Science in Denmark: A Thousand Year History. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2008. Pp. 607. ISBN 978-0-87-7934-317-7. £37.95 (hardback).

Galina Kichigina, The Imperial Laboratory: Experimental Physiology and Clinical Medicine in Post-Crimean Russia. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Pp. ii+374. ISBN 978-90-420-2658-2. £72.20 (hardback).

Matthew D. Eddy, The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xxi+309. ISBN 978-0-7546-6332-4. £60.00 (hardback).

David Knight, The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine, and Modernity, 1789–1914. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2009. Pp. xiv+370. ISBN 978-0-7456-3676-4. £17.99 (paperback).

Sigrid Schmalzer, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xix+346. ISBN 978-0-226-73860-4. $26.00 (paperback).

Julie K. Brown, Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions in the United States, 1876–1904. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xi+326. ISBN 978-0-262-02657-4. £33.95 (hardback).

Claire G. Jones, Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. ix+264. ISBN 978-0-230-55521-1. £55.00 (hardback).

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Christina Chimisso, Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. ix+209. ISBN 978-0-7546-5705-7. £55.00 (hardback).

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Cathy Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. x+277. ISBN 978-0-226-28953-3. £19.00 (hardback).

Denise Gigante, Life: Organic Form and Romanticism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+302. ISBN 978-0-300-13685-2. £27.95 (hardback).

L.S. Jacyna, Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Sir Henry Head. London, Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. viii+353. ISBN 978-1-85196-907-4. £60.00 (hardback).

John Holmes, Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+288. ISBN 978-0-7486-3940-3. £60.00 (hardback).

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Graeme Gooday, Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. ix+292. ISBN 978-1-85196-975-3. £60.00 (hardback).

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