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Volume 35 - December 2002

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LEAH CECCARELLI, Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xi+204. ISBN 0-226-09907-5. £13.00, $20.00 (paperback).

SUSANNE ZIMMERMANN, Die Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Jena während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Ernst-Haeckel-Haus-Studien: Monographien zur Geschichte der Biowissenschaften und Medizin, Band 2. Berlin: VWB, 2000. Pp. 223. ISBN 3-86135-481-0. DM 48·00 (paperback).

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MALCOLM MACMILLAN, An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xiii+562. ISBN 0-262-13363-6. £26.50 (hardback).

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RANDALL A. DODGEN, Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in Late Imperial China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. ix+243. ISBN 0-8248-2366-4. $29.95 (paperback).

JAMES A. SECORD, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship ofVestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xix+624. ISBN 0-226-74410-8. £22.50, $35.00 (hardback).

ERIC HIGGS, ANDREW LIGHTAND DAVID STRONG (eds.), Technology and the Good Life? Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xii+392. ISBN 0-226-33387-6. £16·00, $25·00 (paperback).

P. KLAUS HENTSCHEL and AXEL D. WITTMANN (eds.), The Role of Visual Representations in Astronomy: History and Research Practice. Acta Historica Astronomiae, 9. Thun and Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2000. Pp. 148. ISBN 3-8171-1630-6. DM 24.00 (paperback).

NEIL CHAMBERS (ed.), The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768–1820. London: Imperial College Press, 2001. Pp. xliii+420. ISBN 1-86094-204-0. £33.00 (hardback).

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PETER MACHAMER, MARCELLO PERAAND ARISTIDESBALTAS, Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x+278. ISBN 0-19-511987-8. £32·50 (hardback).

ANDREW BARKER, Scientific Method in Ptolemy'sHarmonics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii+281. ISBN 0-521-55372-5. £45.00 (hardback).

ROBERT N. PROCTOR, The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. x+380. ISBN 0-691-07051-2. £10·50, $16.95 (paperback).

SIMON A. COLE, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 369. ISBN 0-674-00455-8. £23·95 (hardback).

KEN RICHARDSON, The Making of Intelligence. Maps of the Mind. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. viii+210. ISBN 0-231-12004-4. $24.95 (hardback).

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PETER J. BEURTON, RAPHAEL FALK and HANS-JÖRG RHEINBERGER (eds.), The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+384. ISBN 0-521-77187-0. $59.95 (hardback).

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W. CLARK, J. GOLINSKIAND S. SCHAFFER (eds.), The Sciences in Enlightened Europe. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xiv+566. ISBN 0-226-10939-9. £59·50 (hardback).

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