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Patients and healers in the context of culture. An exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry (1981) (794)
The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity (1998) (636)
Consumption and the World of Goods (1994) (588)
The anatomy of melancholy (1990) (487)
The Enlightenment in national context (1981) (407)
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000) (300)
Homosexuality and American psychiatry: the politics of diagnosis (1989) (298)
Impure Science. AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge (1997) (294)
The culture of pain (1992) (290)
Madness: A Brief History (2002) (241)
English Society in the Eighteenth Century (1982) (223)
Medicine and Its Blessings: A Review Essay@@@The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (1998) (217)
Rewriting the self : histories from the Renaissance to the present (1997) (214)
Hysteria Beyond Freud (1993) (159)
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine (2002) (153)
Dangerous sexualities. Medico-moral politics in England since 1830 (1988) (120)
Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency (1988) (112)
Freud: biologist of the mind (1980) (109)
The ferment of knowledge: Index (1980) (97)
Gentlemen and Geology: the Emergence of a Scientific Career, 1660–1920 (1978) (92)
A history of clinical psychiatry : the origin and history of psychiatric disorders (1995) (91)
Concepts of cleanliness: changing attitudes in France since the Middle Ages (1989) (89)
Living in the shadow of death: tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history (1995) (88)
Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (1988) (88)
A social history of madness: Stories of the insane (1987) (87)
剑桥医学史 = Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2000) (86)
The drinking man's disease: the 'pre-history' of alcoholism in Georgian Britain. (1985) (85)
Revolution in history (1986) (85)
The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1660-1815 (1977) (83)
The Reformation in national context (1994) (81)
The National Question in Europe in Historical Context (1993) (79)
The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment (2000) (78)
Philanthropy and police: London charity in the eighteenth century (1991) (76)
The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 (1995) (74)
The scientific revolution in national context (1992) (73)
Sexual knowledge, sexual science : the history of attitudes to sexuality (1996) (73)
The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science (1982) (72)
Flesh in the Age of Reason (2004) (69)
Families in former times. Kinship, household, and sexuality (1981) (64)
Crusaders for fitness. The history of American health reformers (1983) (63)
Demography and degeneration: eugenics and the declining birthrate in twentieth-century Britain (1991) (62)
The Enlightenment in National Context: The Enlightenment in England (1981) (60)
The problem of medical knowledge. Examining the social construction of medicine (1983) (57)
Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century (1996) (57)
Gout: The Patrician Malady (1999) (57)
A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (1988) (56)
Toleration in Enlightenment Europe: Contents (1999) (55)
Medical lecturing in Georgian London (1995) (53)
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (2000) (51)
Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & Lunatics (2004) (51)
Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society (2003) (49)
Social uses of science (1980) (45)
Cleaning up the Great Wen: public health in eighteenth-century London. (1991) (45)
The Cambridge history of medicine (2006) (45)
Myths of the English. (1994) (45)
Charles Lyell and the Principles of the History of Geology (1975) (44)
Nature and society in historical context (1997) (44)
The eighteenth-century campaign to avoid disease (1987) (44)
Can the stigma of mental illness be changed? (1998) (43)
Death in Hamburg. Society and politics in the cholera years 1830-1910 (1988) (43)
Birth, marriage, and death: ritual, religion, and the life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (1998) (43)
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 (2001) (42)
Matter, life, and generation. Eighteenth-century embryology and the Haller-Wolff debate (1982) (41)
Unclean spirits. Possession and exorcism in France and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (1981) (41)
Toleration and Citizenship in Enlightenment England: John Toland and the Naturalization of the Jews, 1714–1753 (1999) (40)
Literature and Medicine during the Eighteenth Century (1994) (40)
Foucault's great confinement (1990) (40)
Fin de siecle and Its Legacy. (1992) (38)
Exoticism in the enlightenment (1991) (37)
Marriage and society. Studies in the social history of marriage (1982) (36)
Earth Sciences-Images of the Earth: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences (1979) (34)
The biographical dictionary of scientists (1994) (34)
The Renaissance in national context (1994) (34)
Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe. (1989) (33)
The Faber Book of Madness (1993) (33)
Drugs and Narcotics in History (1995) (32)
The sickroom in Victorian fiction: the art of being ill (1995) (32)
Model mothers: Jewish mothers and maternity provision in east London, 1870–1939 (1995) (31)
Romanticism in national context (1988) (31)
Science and society in Restoration England (1981) (31)
Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England (1988) (30)
The psychiatric society (1983) (26)
The industrial revolution in national context: Europe and the USA (1996) (26)
A liquid level controller (1992) (26)
Treat me right: essays in medical law and ethics (1989) (26)
Medicine in the Enlightenment (1995) (26)
Science, provincial culture and public opinion in Enlightenment England (2008) (24)
Nervousness, eighteenth and nineteenth century style: from luxury to labour. (2001) (24)
The history of medical education in Britain (1995) (23)
The British Isles: Celt and Saxon (1993) (23)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: Select bibliography (1987) (22)
The Dialectics of Friendship (2022) (22)
The English spa 1560–1815: a social history (1991) (22)
Illustrations of Madness (1989) (22)
Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (2006) (21)
Enlightenment, Romanticism and the blind in France (1989) (21)
Madness and the Family Before Freud: the View of the Mad-Doctors (1998) (20)
A treatise on lovesickness (1991) (20)
Beyond the unconscious: essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the history of psychiatry (1995) (19)
Medicine in Society: Madness and its institutions (1992) (19)
The age of anxiety (1996) (18)
Alexander Catcott: Glory and Geology (1977) (18)
The Scientific Revolution in France (1992) (18)
Before the Fringe: ‘Quackery’ and the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market (1988) (18)
Augustan England. Professions, state, and society, 1680–1730 (1983) (17)
Family life in the seventeenth century. The Verneys of Claydon House (1985) (17)
The Industrial Revolution in National Context (1996) (17)
The Anatomy of Madness (1985) (17)
The popularization of medicine, 1650-1850 (2011) (17)
Drugs and Narcotics in History: Frontmatter (1995) (16)
Medicine in Society: The patient in England, c . 1660– c . 1800 (1992) (16)
The Scientific Revolution in National Context. (1993) (16)
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2000) (16)
The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments, Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels (Eds.). Cambridge University Press (1988), ix, +312. £30.00 and $49.50) (1989) (15)
Changing faces of madness. Early American attitudes and treatment of the insane (1988) (15)
Scientific Institutions and the Organization of Science (2003) (15)
The People’s Health in Georgian England (1995) (14)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: Introduction (1995) (14)
George Cheyne: The English Malady, 1733 (1991) (13)
David Hartley on human nature (2000) (13)
The Impact Of The Reformation (1994) (13)
Ideas of Nature: Natural Philosophy (2003) (12)
The science of women: gynaecology and gender in England, 1800–1929 (1991) (12)
The social construction of illness: illness and medical knowledge in past and present (1993) (12)
Samuel Johnson in the medical world: the doctor and the patient (1991) (12)
The Crispe Family and the African Trade in the Seventeenth Century (1968) (11)
Rewriting the Self : Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present (2002) (11)
History of Bethlem (1997) (11)
The speckled monster. Smallpox in England, 1670–1970, with special reference to Essex (1988) (11)
Howard's beginning: prisons, disease, hygiene. (1995) (11)
The medical history of waters and spas. Introduction. (1990) (11)
All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present, Stephen Mennell. Basil Blackwell, Oxford (1985), xii, 380. £14·95 (1987) (10)
Medicine a History of Healing: Ancient Traditions to Modern Practices (1997) (10)
John Woodward; ‘A Droll Sort of Philosopher’ (1979) (9)
Romantic medicine and John Keats (1992) (9)
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart (1996) (9)
Rape: An Historical and Cultural Enquiry (1989) (9)
Revolution in antiquity (1986) (9)
Science, Philosophy, and the Mind (2003) (9)
Men of the mountains (1983) (9)
Accidents in the eighteenth century. (1997) (9)
Spreading Carnal Knowledge or Selling Dirt Cheap? Nicolas Venette's Tableau de l'Amour Conjugal in Eighteenth Century England (1984) (8)
James Parkinson: his life and times (1990) (8)
The Malthusian moment. (2000) (8)
Myths of the English (1995) (8)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: The role of medicine: what did it achieve? (1995) (8)
Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol. By Mary E. Fissell (Cambridge, Great Britain: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1991. xi plus 266 pp.) (1993) (8)
Selling it to the provinces: news and commerce round eighteenth-century Salisbury (2013) (8)
Enlightenment and Pleasure (1996) (8)
WAS THERE A MEDICAL ENLIGHTENMENT IN EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY ENGLAND? (2008) (8)
Reproductive rituals (1985) (7)
The ferment of knowledge: The terraqueous globe (1980) (7)
Scientific Illustration in the Eighteenth Century (2003) (7)
Naturalism and social science. A post-empiricist philosophy of social science (1981) (7)
Bethlem/Bedlam: Methods of Madness? (1997) (7)
Marriage, sex, and the family in England, 1660-1800 (1985) (7)
Ornella Moscucci, The science of women: gynaecology and gender in England, 1800–1929, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. x, 278, illus., £35.00, $49.50. (1991) (7)
The making of the French nation (1993) (7)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: New Studies in Economic and Social History (1995) (7)
The town and state physician in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (1982) (6)
Enlightenment and Beyond (1990) (6)
George Hoggart Toulmin's theory of man and the earth in the light of the development of British geology (1978) (6)
Man masters nature : twenty-five centuries of science (1988) (6)
Revolution in popular culture (1986) (6)
Material Pleasures in the Consumer Society (1996) (6)
Reason, Madness, and the French Revolution (2010) (5)
Global Pillage: Science, Commerce, and Empire (2003) (5)
Madness and Society in England : The Historiography Reconsidered (1987) (5)
English Chief Factors on the Gold Coast, 1632-1753 (1968) (5)
Healers and healing in early modern Italy . By David Gentilcore. (Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe.) Pp. x+240 incl. 2 maps and 8 figs. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. £45. 0 7190 4199 6 (2000) (5)
Dr Doubledose: a taste of one's own medicine (1994) (5)
A reference companion to the history of abnormal psychology (1986) (5)
The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy; Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss—My Parents' Early Years (1997) (5)
Socio-economic revolution in England and the origin of the modern world (1986) (5)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: Frontmatter (1995) (5)
Casting out and bringing back in Victorian England : pauper lunatics , 1840-1870 ' , in (4)
The scientific-technical revolution: an historical event in the twentieth century (1986) (4)
Political economists and the English poor laws: a historical study of the influence of classical economics on the formation of social welfare policy (1980) (4)
The Two Cultures Revisited (1996) (4)
The Prophetic Body: Lady Eleanor Davies and the meanings of madness (1994) (4)
Philosophy and Politics of a Geologist: G. H. Toulmin (1754-1817) (1978) (4)
The Scientific Revolution in National Context: Introduction (1992) (4)
A proper house: Bedford Lunatic Asylum (1812–1860) (1993) (4)
Bohemia: From Darkness into Light (1981) (4)
'A little learning': knowledge and health in the 18th century. (1989) (4)
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. By Steven Shapin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.) (1997) (3)
Sexual Underworld of the Enlightenment (1988) (3)
The Hell Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality (review) (2001) (3)
Sue Minter, The Apothecaries' Garden: A New History of the Chelsea Physic Garden , Stroud, Sutton, 2000. With research by Ruth Stungo and a foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. (2001) (3)
Arthur Kleinman, Patients and healers in the context of culture. An exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry , Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvi, 427, illus., £15.00. (1981) (3)
The horror of life (1981) (3)
Thomas Gisborne: physicians, Christians and gentlemen. (1993) (3)
Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality. (1996) (3)
Medicine and healing. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, annual proceedings 1990 (1993) (3)
Pope, Homer and manliness: some aspects of eighteenth-century classical learning (1994) (3)
Reforming Religion by Reason (1990) (2)
The hospital of the nation. The story of spa medicine and the Mineral Water Hospital of Bath (1989) (2)
Underworlds. Organized Crime in the Netherlands (2008) (2)
The letters and papers of Sir John Hill, 1714–1775 (1983) (2)
Forbidden Pleasures: Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice (2020) (2)
The bourgeois revolution of 1848–9 in Central Europe (1986) (2)
Victorian lunatics: a social epidemiology of mental illness in mid-nineteenth-century England (1991) (2)
The Enlightenment in National Context: Preface (1981) (2)
Enlightenment in the Habsburg Monarchy: History of a Belated and Short-Lived Phenomenon (1999) (2)
The Urban and the Rustic in Enlightenment London (1997) (2)
Brute forces (1995) (2)
Research in British geology 1660–1800: A survey and thematic bibliography (1977) (2)
MATRIX OF MODERNITY? (2002) (2)
What Was the Enlightenment (1990) (2)
All change for the RI (1986) (2)
The Medical Profession and the State in the Nineteenth Century (1993) (2)
Science, Culture, and the Imagination: Enlightenment Configurations (2003) (2)
The historiography of medicine in the U.K. (1998) (2)
When it came to naming names (2001) (2)
Earth Sciences (2003) (1)
Capital Art: Hogarth's London (1997) (1)
“Take time by the forelock”: the letters of Anthony Fothergill to James Woodforde, 1789–1813 (1998) (1)
The history of the health care sciences and health care 1700—1980: A selective annotated bibliography (1985) (1)
The quality of life. The Peckham approach to human ethology (1981) (1)
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, (ed. and tr.) The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904 . Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xv + 505. ISBN 0-674-15420-7. £19.95. (1987) (1)
‘On the very spot’: In Defence of Battle (2012) (1)
Geology in Britain, 1660–1800: a selective biographical bibliography (1978) (1)
Gresham Lecture: Matrix of Modernity (2001) (1)
William Hobbs of Weymouth and his The earth generated and anatomized (?1715) (1976) (1)
Darwin's Forgotten Defenders. The encounter between evangelical theology and evolutionary thought . By David N. Livingstone. Pp. xii + 210 + ills. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans/Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987. £7.95. 0 8028 0260 5 (1989) (1)
Socialist revolution in Central Europe, 1917–21 (1986) (1)
Man masters nature : 25 centuries of science (1987) (1)
Anti-psychiatry and the family: taking the long view. (1998) (1)
Early Modern England: A Social History; 1550-1760. (1989) (1)
Faith and Doubt in Victorian Britain . By Elisabeth Jay. (Context and Commentary.) Pp. xii + 136 + 5 plates. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. £20 (cloth), £6.95 (paper), 0 333 37658 7; 0 333 37659 5 (1987) (1)
‘I Think Ye Both Quacks’: The Controversy between Dr Theodor Myersbach and Dr John Coakley Lettsom (2018) (1)
American health quackery: collected essays (1993) (1)
Millennial musings (2000) (1)
Book Review:Human Nature, Cultural Diversity, and the French Enlightenment Henry Vyverberg (1991) (1)
From physico-theology to bio-technology : essays in the social and cultural history of biosciences : a festschrift for Mikuláš Teich (1998) (1)
Essay Review: The History of Palaeontology: The Meaning of Fossils (1973) (1)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: Introduction to the second edition (1995) (1)
Plutus or Hygeia? Thomas Beddoes and the Crisis of Medical Ethics in Britain at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century (1993) (1)
The earth generated and anatomized by William Hobbs (1981) (1)
Science in culture (2000) (1)
A Comparative Overview (1994) (1)
Medical futures (2001) (1)
The ruin of the constitution: the early interpretation of gout. Ordinary meeting Monday, 25th April 1994. (1993) (1)
The Role of Medicine: What Did it Achieve? (1993) (1)
Evolution: The History of an Idea. Peter J. BowlerSocial Darwinism in France. Linda L. ClarkBenjamin Kidd: Portrait of a Social Darwinist. D. P. Crook (1986) (1)
The Earth Generated and Anatomized (1982) (1)
Eighteenth century medics (subscriptions, licences, apprenticeships) (1990) (1)
William Herschel, Bath, and the Philosophical Society (1982) (1)
Science and Society (1983) (1)
The European family. Patriarchy and partnership from the Middle Ages to the present (1982) (1)
Historians and eighteenth-century Europe, 1715–1789 (1980) (1)
Das Kaiserliche Gesundheitsamt (Imperial Health Office) and the chemical industry in Germany during the Second Empire: partners or adversaries? (1995) (1)
Book Review:Jane Austen and the Body: "The Picture of Health" John Wiltshire (1994) (1)
Jacques Ferrand, A treatise on lovesickness , transl. and ed. Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella, Syracuse University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi, 709, $49.95. (1991) (1)
Essay Review: Dugald Stewart Reprinted, the Collected Works of Dugald Stewart (1996) (1)
George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733) (Psychology Revivals) (2013) (1)
British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 by Blanche Henrey (1976) (0)
Georges Vigarello, Concepts of cleanliness: changing attitudes in France since the Middle Ages , trans. Jean Birrell, Past and Present Publications, Cambridge University Press, and Paris, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 239, £25.00/$39.50. (1989) (0)
Book Review:From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism Chandra Mukerji (1985) (0)
James Paradis & Thomas Postlewait (eds). Victorian Science and Victorian Values. Literary Perspectives. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 362. (1987) (0)
Truth, Liberty, Religion. Essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College . Edited by Barbara Smith. Pp. xxiv + 325 + ills. Oxford: Manchester College, Oxford, 1986. £19.95. 09508715 16 (1988) (0)
Shirley A. Roe, Matter, life, and generation. Eighteenth-century embryology and the Haller- Wolffdebate, Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. x, 214, illus., £16.00. (1982) (0)
Sheila M Rothman, Living in the shadow of death: tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history, New York, BasicBooks, 1994 (distributed by HarperCollins in the UK), pp. xi, 319, £19.95 (0465-03002-5). (1995) (0)
John Knott, Popular opposition to the 1834 Poor Law , London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. 284, £19.95. (1987) (0)
John Wiltshire, Samuel Johnson in the medical world. the doctor and the patient , Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. x, 293, £30.00, $39.50 (0-521-38326-9). (1991) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Jean-Pierre Goubert (editor), La medicalisation de la societe franqaise 1770–1830 , Waterloo, Ontario, Historical Reflections Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. 304, $Cdn.19.00 ($8.00 paperback). (1983) (0)
J. R. Smith, The speckled monster. Smallpox in England, 1670–1970, with special reference to Essex , Chelmsford, Essex Record Office, 1987, 8vo, pp. 217, illus., £14.95. (1988) (0)
Phillip A. Nicholls. Homoeopathy and the Medical Profession , Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. 298. ISBN 0-7099-1836-4. £27.50. (1988) (0)
Slave of duty (1988) (0)
Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell. By Constance Classen, David Howes and Anthony Synnott (New York: Routledge, 1995, vii plus 248pp. $16.95) (1996) (0)
The rise of ‘Mobilism’ (1985) (0)
Book Review:The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, c. 1700-1800 Guy Williams (1987) (0)
David Thomas, Naturalism and social science. A post-empiricist philosophy of social science, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. vii, 213, £12.50 (£4.95 paperback). (1981) (0)
Under the Banner of Science: Erasmus Darwin and his Age, Maureen McNeil. Manchester University Press, Manchester (1987), vii, +307. £27·50 (1988) (0)
The Other World. Spiritualism and psychical research in England, 1850–1914 . By Janet Oppenheim. Pp. xii + 503 + ills. Cambridge University Press, 1985. (1985) (0)
Mikulás Teich: a biographical sketch. (1998) (0)
James Harvey Young, American health quackery: collected essays , Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. xii, 299, illus., £22.50, $24.95 (0-691-04782-0). (1993) (0)
Book Reviews : Michael Heyd. 'Be Sober and Reasonable': The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries. Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1995. Pp. xii + 312 (1996) (0)
Essay Review: The Omniologists: Gentlemen of Science: Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1982) (0)
Book Review:From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. Edward Shorter (1994) (0)
Enlightenment Perspectives (1992) (0)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: Disease, death and doctors in Tudor and Stuart England (1995) (0)
Robert Castel, Francoise Castel, and Anne Lovell, The psychiatric society , trans. by A. Goldhammer, New York, and Guildford, Surrey, Columbia University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 358, $32.40. (1983) (0)
The Enlightenment in National Context: Notes to the text (1981) (0)
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1979) (0)
Conclusion: Did the Enlightenment Matter? (1990) (0)
Cheyne on the English Malady (1733) (1992) (0)
Essay Review: Volume 4A of The General History: Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950 (1985) (0)
Book Review:The Temperature of History: Phases of Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Stephen Brush (1981) (0)
Bernard Cashman, A proper house: Bedford Lunatic Asylum (1812–1860) , Bedford, North Bedfordshire Health Authority (3 Kimbolton Road, Bedford MK40 2NU), 1992, pp. xii, 179, illus., £7.95 (+£11 p&p) (0-9513626-2-3). (1993) (0)
Agrarian and industrial revolutions (1986) (0)
The Reformation in national context: Notes on contributors (1994) (0)
Andrew W. Russell (editor), The town and state physician in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Wolfenbuitteler Forschungen, Band 17), Wolfenbuttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, 1981, 8vo, pp. 156, illus., DM.42.00 (paperback). (1982) (0)
Experiences and Actions: Countering Illness in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1993) (0)
Conquest through biology (1986) (0)
John Forrester, Language and the origins of psychoanalysis. London, Macmillan, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvi, 285, £15.00. (1981) (0)
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This invisible riot of the mind: Samuel Johnson's psychological theory (1993) (0)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1978) (0)
L. WOLPERT and A. RICHARDS. A passion for science. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1988. Pp vii, 206; illustrated. Price: £15. ISBN 0-19-854213-5. (1989) (0)
Book Reviews : Science deified and science defied: the historical significance of science in western culture, vol. II. By R. Olson. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1995. xii + 450 pp. £12.95 ($20.00) paper. ISBN 0 520 20167 1 (1996) (0)
Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment. By James R. Jacob. Pp. viii + 222. Cambridge University Press, 1983. £19.50. (1984) (0)
William R. Paulson, Enlightenment, Romanticism and the blind in France , Princeton University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. ix, 259, £21.00. (1989) (0)
Essay Review: Malthus and Darwin: The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus (1987) (0)
Lara V Marks, Model mothers: Jewish mothers and maternity provision in east London, 1870–1939, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. xxi, 320, £35.00 (0-19-820454-X). (1995) (0)
Frank Mort, Dangerous sexualities. Medico-moral politics in England since 1830 , London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987, 8vo, pp. ix, 280, £7.95 (paperback). (1988) (0)
Olive Anderson, Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. viii, 475, illus., £40.00. (1988) (0)
Telling lives in science: Taking histories, medical lives: Thomas Beddoes and biography (1996) (0)
Mr Science, warts and all (1993) (0)
Science and the Universities (1976) (0)
Symbol of a nightmare society (1994) (0)
States and estates (1976) (0)
Death and the doctors. Essay review. (1982) (0)
Miriam Bailin, The sickroom in Victorian fiction: the art of being ill, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. ix, 169, £30.00, $49.95 (0-521-44526-4). (1995) (0)
Book Review:Under Newton's Shadow: Astronomical Practices in the Seventeenth Century Lesley Murdin (1986) (0)
Managing the Mind. A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth Century Britain . By M. Donnelly. (Pp. 192; illustrated; £11.00 hb, £5.50 pb.) Tavistock: London. 1983. (1984) (0)
English Sexualities, 1700-1800 (1998) (0)
Review. Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XIV. Clarke, Desmond M. (1992) (0)
Parisian plague, C.J. Kudlick (Ed.), in: Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris: A Cultural History. University of California Press (1996), £30.00 hbk (xiv + 293 pages), ISBN: 0 520 20 273 2 (1997) (0)
Book Reviews (2014) (0)
The Cinque Ports Prison, Dover Castle (2010) (0)
Language and the origins of psychoanalysis (1981) (0)
Geoffrey Holmes, Augustan England. Professions, state, and society, 1680–1730, London, Allen & Unwin, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 332, £18.50. (1983) (0)
Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century . Edited by Tess Cosslett. (Cambridge English Prose Texts.) Pp. vi + 249. Cambridge University Press, 1984. £22.50. (1984) (0)
Randolph Trumbach (editor), Marriage, sex, and the family in England, 1660–1800 , New York and London, Garland Publishing Inc., 1985, a facsimile series: (1985) (0)
Jean-Louis Flandrin, Families in former times. Kinship, household, and sexuality , translated by Richard Southern, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xi, 265, £14.50 (£4.50 paperback). (1981) (0)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: Medicine in the market economy of the Georgian age (1995) (0)
Review: Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (1996) (0)
Michael Mitterauer and Reinhard Sieder, The European family. Patriarchy and partnership from the Middle Ages to the present , Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, pp. xv, 235, £16.00 (£7.50 paperback). (1982) (0)
Obeah in British Caribbean slave communities. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. By James Delbourgo. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uni- (2009) (0)
Matrix of modernity? The Colin Matthew memorial lecture. (2002) (0)
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Mark S Micale (ed.), Beyond the unconscious: essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the history of psychiatry , transl. by Françoise Dubor and Mark S Micale, Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. xii, 416, £32.50, $49.50 (0–691–08550–1). (1995) (0)
An English Family at Cape Coast, 1802-1804 (1968) (0)
A. D. Morris, James Parkinson: his life and times , ed. F. Clifford Rose, History of Neuroscience, Boston, Birkhäuser, 1989, 8vo, pp. xi, 207, illus., $59.00. (1990) (0)
Donna T. Andrew, Philanthropy and police: London charity in the eighteenth century, Princeton University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 229, $32.50. (1991) (0)
The Practice of Medicine in Early Modern England (1993) (0)
General Reason, Ridicule and Religion, The Age of Enlightenment in England, 1660–1750. By John Redwood. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. Pp. 287. £7.00. (1977) (0)
Toleration in Enlightenment Europe: Preface (1999) (0)
Carolyn D. Williams, Pope, Homer and manliness: some aspects of eighteenth-century classical learning , London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. xi, 220, £37.50 (0-415-05600-4). (1994) (0)
Roger Rolls, with photographs by Clive Quinnell, The hospital of the nation. The story of spa medicine and the Mineral Water Hospital of Bath , Bath, Bird Publications, 1988, 4to, pp. x, 181, illus., £18.50. (1989) (0)
Death, Dissection and the Destitute (1988) (0)
Essay Review: Dictionaries and the History of Science (1980) (0)
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336.Caroline Walker Bynum (1996) (0)
Galileo Heretic . By Pietro Redondi. (Trans, by Raymond Rosenthal of Galileo eretico , 1983.) Pp. viii + 256 + 18 ills. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1988. £17.95. 0 7139 9007 4 (1989) (0)
Victorian Science and Religion. A bibliography. By Sydney Eisen and Bernard V. Lightman. Pp. xix + 696. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books/Oxford: Clio Distribution Services, 1984. £55.45. (1986) (0)
Book Review:From Mineralogy to Geology: The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830 Rachel Laudan (1988) (0)
Religio Medici. Medicine and religion in seventeenth-century England. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham. Pp. viii+347 incl. 7 ills. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. £49.50. 1 85928 339 X (1998) (0)
Book Review: Books and Plants: British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 (1976) (0)
Innes H. Pearse, The quality of life. The Peckham approach to human ethology. Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xvi, 194, illus., £6.50. (1981) (0)
Sleepless Souls. Suicide in early modern England . By MacDonald Michael and Murphy Terence. (Oxford Studies in Social History.) Pp. xvi + 383 incl. figs and tables. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. £40. 0 19 822919 4 (1992) (0)
Lady Eleanor Davies, la loca (1995) (0)
Essay review: Stone ages, old and new (1985) (0)
Geology Two Hundred Years of Geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology. Ed. by Cecil J. Schneer. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1979. Pp. xvii + 385. $20.00. (1981) (0)
R. B. Outhwaite (editor), Marriage and society. Studies in the social history of marriage , London, Europa, 1981, 8vo, pp. viii, 284, £19.50. (1982) (0)
The Christian philosopher . By Cotton Mather. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Winton U. Solberg. Pp. cxlii + 488. Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. $49.95. 0 252 01952 0 (1996) (0)
D. P. Walker, Unclean spirits. Possession and exorcism in France and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , London, Scolar Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. 116, £9.95. (1981) (0)
The autobiography of Edward Jarvis (1803–1884), Medical History (1994) (0)
Georgina Weldon and Louisa Lowe (2003) (0)
Michael Howell and Peter Ford, The true history of the elephant man , London, Penguin Books, 1980, 8vo, pp. 223, illus., £1.25 (paperback). (1981) (0)
The Post-Darwinian Controversies: a Study of the Protestant Struggle to come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America 1870–1900 . By James R. Moore. Pp. xii + 502. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. £18.00. (1980) (0)
News, Notes and Queries (1980) (0)
Jens Lachmund and Gunnar Stollberg (eds), The social construction of illness: illness and medical knowledge in past and present , Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Beiheft 1, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1992, pp. 182, DM 68.00 (3-515-05839-7). (1993) (0)
Essay Review: Strata and Their Data (1987) (0)
Harold J. Cook, Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London , Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 301. $45.00 (ISBN 0-8018-4778-8). (1996) (0)
Gloria Sybil Gross, This invisible riot of the mind: Samuel Johnson's psychological theory , Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, pp. x, 198, £22.00, $25.95 (0-8122-3146-5). (1993) (0)
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The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth Century Britain. By G. J. Barker-Benfield (Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xxxiv plus 520pp.) (1995) (0)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: Experiences and actions: countering illness in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1995) (0)
Pre-modernism and the art of shopping (1992) (0)
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Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: The medical profession and the state in the nineteenth century (1995) (0)
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Glory, jest and riddle. Religious thought in the Enlightenment. By James Byrne. Pp. xiii + 253. London: SCM Press, 1996. £14.95 (paper). 0 334 02656 3 (1997) (0)
Book Review:Charles Lyell, the Years to 1841: The Revolution in Geology Leonard G. Wilson (1973) (0)
Rosalba Davico (ed.), The autobiography (40 Edvt ard Jarniis (1803–1884), Medical History, Supplement No. 12, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1992, pp. xli, 162, £23.00, $38.00 (0-85484-115-6). (1994) (0)
Science and Literature (1978) (0)
Book Review:Poison in the Pot: The Legacy of Lead Richard P. Wedeen (1986) (0)
Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550–1860: The practice of medicine in early modern England (1995) (0)
Essay review-Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and science (2001) (0)
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Marlene A. Arieno, Victorian lunatics: a social epidemiology of mental illness in mid-nineteenth-century England, Selinsgrove, Susquehanna University Press, London and Toronto, Associated University Presses, 1989, 8vo, pp. 140, illus., £18.95. (1991) (0)
Medicine in the Market Economy of the Georgian Age (1993) (0)
Was there a medical Enlightenment in 18th-century England? (1982) (0)
Book Review:The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry. H. Floris Cohen (1996) (0)
The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Catherine Gallagher , Thomas Laqueur (1989) (0)
James C. Riley, The eighteenith-century campaign to avoid disease , London, Macmillan, 1987, 8vo, pp. xvii, 213, £29.50. (1987) (0)
John Coakley Lettsom and "the highest and most divine profession, that can engage human intellect". (1994) (0)
The Enlightenment in National Context: Further reading (1981) (0)
The Great Instauration. Science, Medicine and Reform, 1626–1660 . By Charles Webster. London: Duckworth, 1975. Pp. xvi+630. £13.50. (1976) (0)
Sander L. Gilman. Difference and Pathology. Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 292. $38.45 (cloth), $14.25 (paper). (1987) (0)
Michael Hunter, Science and society in Restoration England, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xii, 233, £18.50 (£5.95 paperback). (1981) (0)
M. S. Anderson, Historians and eighteenth-century Europe, 1715–1789 , Oxford University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. vi, 251, £10.00. (1980) (0)
Review: Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis (1994) (0)
Susan Willis Fletcher (2003) (0)
Books and papers concerned with the history of the Royal Society (1988) (1990) (0)
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Review. Voltaire's Attitude toward Geology. Carozzi, Marguerite (1984) (0)
Francis Doherty, A study in eighteenth-century advertising methods: the anodyne necklace , Lewiston, NY, and Lampeter, Dyfed, Edward Mellen Press, 1992, pp. xv, 464, £49.95, $89.95 (0-7734-9177-5). (1993) (0)
The Edge of Contingency: French Catholic reaction to scientific change from Darwin to Duhem. By Harry W. Paul. Pp. 213. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1979. $15. (1982) (0)
Margins, Underworlds, Absences (1989) (0)
Roger L. Williams, The horror of life , London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980, 8vo, pp. xiv, 381, illus., £15.00. (1981) (0)
The Goal: a Science of Man (1990) (0)
The Politics of Enlightenment (1990) (0)
Book Review:Surgeons at the Bailey: English Forensic Medicine to 1878 Thomas Rogers Forbes (1986) (0)
Essay Review: Danger: Science at Work: Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain (1980) (0)
MARINA FRASCA-SPADA and NICK JARDINE (eds.), Books and the Sciences in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+438. ISBN 0-521-65939-6. £18.95, $29.95. (2001) (0)
Unity or Diversity (1990) (0)
George Hoggart Toulmin: politics and geology (1978) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Disease, Death and Doctors in Tudor and Stuart England (1993) (0)
The fairer science (1993) (0)
P. Wright and A. Treacher (editors), The problem of medical knowledge. Examining the social construction of medicine , Edinburgh University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 232, £ 12.00 (paperback). (1983) (0)
Book Reviews : Rosina Bulwer Lytton, A Blighted Life: A True Story. With a new Introduction by Marie Mulvey Roberts. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994. Pp. xxxvi + 111 (1994) (0)
Obituary (1989) (0)
Book Review: The Bibliography of Geology: Geologists and the History of Geology. An International Bibliography from the Origins to 1978 (1981) (0)
Changes in alcohol use among Navajos and other Indians of the American Southwest (1995) (0)
James Hutton's medical dissertation. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 70, pt. 6) (1981) (0)
Science in the British Colonies of America . By Raymond Phineas Stearns. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. Pp. xx + 760. (1972) (0)
David B. Morris, The culture of pain , Berkeley and Oxford, University of California Press, 1991, pp. xii, 342, illus., $29.95 (0-520-07266-9). (1992) (0)
Bones, stones and Buckland (1983) (0)
Ian Kennedy, Treat me right: essays in medical law andethics, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 375, £35.00. (1989) (0)
The Hell Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. By Geoffrey Ashe (Stroud, Gloucs: Sutton Publishing, 2000) (2001) (0)
Arthur Donovan and Joseph Prentiss, James Hutton's medical dissertation . ( Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , vol. 70, pt. 6), Philadelphia, 1980, 4to, pp. 57, $8.00 (paperback). (1981) (0)
George Hoggart Toulmin and James Hutton: A fresh look (1978) (0)
Book Reviews (2015) (0)
Book Review: To Justify the Ways of Boyle to Man: The Works of Robert Boyle, Robert Boyle (1627–91): Scrupulosity and Science (2001) (0)
Editorial (1990) (0)
Biography - Stephen J. Pyne, Grove Karl Gilbert: a great engine of research . Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 306. £12.00 (1982) (0)
Memoirs of a septuagenarian (1992) (0)
News, Notes, and Queries (2003) (0)
The science police (2013) (0)
Essay Review: Physics & Geology: Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth (1979) (0)
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