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Volume 51 - December 2018

Book Review

Olivier Darrigol, Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings – An Exegesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi + 612. ISBN 978-0-19-881617-1. £45.00 (hardcover).

Annie Tindley and Andrew Wodehouse, Design, Technology and Communication in the British Empire, 1830–1914. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 131. ISBN 978-1-1375-9797-7. £37.99 (hardcover).

Volker R. Remmert , Martina R. Schneider and Henrik Kragh Sørensen (eds.), Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Cham: Birkhauser and Springer, 2016. Pp. 267. ISBN 978-3-319-39647-7. £89.50 (hardcover).

J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. 359. ISBN 978-0-231-17954-6. $65.00/£54.00 (cloth).

Anne R. Hanley , Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886–1916. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-3-319-32454-8. £66.99 (hardcover).

Andreas Marklund and Mogens Rüdiger (eds.), Historicizing Infrastructure. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2017. Pp. 235. ISBN 978-87-7112-594-8. DKr 298.00 (hardcover).

Michael Boulter, Bloomsbury Scientists: Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin. London: UCL Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 175. ISBN 978-1-7873-5005-2. £35.00 (paperback).

Laura J. Miller, Building Nature's Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Food. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-22650-123-9. $105.00 (cloth cover).

Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus, The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. 310. ISBN 978-1-5800-46595-3. £95.00 (hardcover).

Daniel Warner, Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-1-78023-824-1. £16.00 (cloth cover).

Roland Wittje, The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 297. ISBN 978-0-262-03526-2. $40.00/£32.95

Brian J. McVeigh , The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-1-4742-8308-3. £76.50 (hardback).

Friedrich Steinle, Exploratory Experiments: Ampère, Faraday and the Origins of Electrodynamics. Translated by Alex Levine. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 494. ISBN 978-0-8229-4450-8. $65.00 (hardcover).

Rebecca Onion , Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 226. ISBN 978-1-4696-2947-6. $29.95 (paperback).

Ann Blair and Anja-Silvia Goeing (eds.), For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2016. Pp. lxxvii + 1082. ISBN 978-90-04-26330-7. €248.00 (hardcover).

Paul Weindling (ed.), From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933–1945. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-4724-8461-1. £105.00 (hardcover).

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille, The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics. Translated by Adam Bostanci. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 147. ISBN 978-0-2265-1000-2. $25.00 (paperback).

Cristiano Casalini, Aristotle in Coimbra: The Cursus Conimbricensis and the Education at the College of Arts. Translated by Luana Salvarani. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. viii + 195. ISBN 978-1-472-46410-1. £110.00 (hardcover)

Hallam Stevens , Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 397. ISBN 978-0-226-04601-3. £21.00/$30.00 (paperback).

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