Chesterton, Bridget M (ed.) 2016 The Chaco War, 1932–1935. London: Bloomsbury.

Medical Diseases of the War *By A. F. Hurst, London. Ed. Arnold, 1916. Price 6s.

name from Hertz) is a pbysioian and neurologist at Guy's, and has served in charge of military hospitals in England as well as in Egypt, at Lemnos, and at Salonica. The first chapter deals with functional nervous disorders, mainly produced by high-explosive shells, and he discusses, in a very interesting way, shell shock, its varied train of symptoms, its diagnosis from hysteria, and its treatm...

The Lumen Prize at EVA London 2016

The Lumen Prize is presenting a small curated show at EVA London in what we hope will be a regular collaboration with the Computer Arts Society. As the current Chair of CAS, I am very pleased that I met Carla Rapoport at one of our lectures in 2014, where we were introduced by Tim Pickup and Nicola Schauerman of Genetic Moo. I saw that Carla's work in setting up and directing the Lumen Prize wa...

Marius Turda (ed.), The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945. Sources and Commentaries (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 656, £85.50, hardback, ISBN: 9781472533562.

Until recently, the history of European eugenics has been framed primarily within the history of Western Europe or of race and racism, most notably during World War II. Overlooked and under-researched is the early development of the ‘wellborn science’ at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as its impact on East-Central European social politics and, conversely, the impact of East-Central ...

ADMET June 13-14 2016, London, UK

ADME and toxicology testing are one of the most important research activities related to new drug discovery. Ensuring a good ADMET study will accelerate approval and therefore commercialization of your drug product – and hence pharmacokinetics remain at the forefront of drug formulation and development Since the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are utilising innovative technologies, A...

Anne Stobart, Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 304, £21.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-472-58034-4.