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Volume 40 - June 2007

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Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 280. ISBN 0-226-11366-3. $25.00, £17.50 (hardback).

ROBERT FOX and GRAEME GOODAY (eds.), Physics in Oxford, 1839–1939: Laboratories, Learning, and College Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+363. ISBN 0-19-856792-8. £60.00 (hardback).

David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. London: Profile Books, 2007. Pp. xviii+270. ISBN 1-86197-296-2. £18.99 (hardback).

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BEN MARSDEN and CROSBIE SMITH, Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xi+351. ISBN 0-333-77278-4. $65.00 (hardback).

C. U. M. SMITH and ROBERT ARNOTT (eds.), The Genius of Erasmus Darwin. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvii+416. ISBN 0-7546-3671-2. £60.00 (hardback).

Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrote (eds.), The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000: Essays for Charles Webster. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xv+376. ISBN 0-7546-3933-9. £60.00 (hardback).

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NADJA DURBACH, Bodily Matters: The Anti-vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907. Durham, NC and London, Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+276. ISBN 0-8223-3412-7. $84.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-8223-3423-2 (paperback).

JACK MORRELL, John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xix+437. ISBN 1-84014-239-1. £57.50 (hardback).

REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. 194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6. $39.95 (hardback).

FALK MÜLLER, Gasentladungsforschung im 19. Jahrhundert. Diepholz: GNT-Verlag, 2004. Pp. 300. ISBN 3-928186-76-0. €35.00 (paperback).

THOMAS RYCKMAN, The Reign of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics, 1915–1925. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. ix+317. ISBN 0-19-517717-7. £36.50, $60.00 (hardback).

DAVID KAISER (ed.), Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. vi+426. ISBN 0-262-11288-4. £29.95 (hardback).

STEPHEN FROSH, Hate and the ‘Jewish Science’: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. vi+228. ISBN 1-4039-2170-9. £25.00 (hardback).

JONATHAN HARWOOD, Technology's Dilemma: Agricultural Colleges between Science and Practice in Germany, 1860–1934. Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2005. Pp. 288. ISBN 3-03910-299-0. £29.00 (paperback.)

NILS ROLL-HANSEN, The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science. New York: Humanity Books, 2005. Pp. 335. ISBN 1-59102-262-2. £17.99 (paperback).

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