David Lambert and Peter Merriman, eds. Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. 248. $120.00 (cloth).

Mary Hunter, The Face of Medicine. Visualising Medical Masculinities in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. vi, 266, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9757-7.

conceiving technologies of blood (Chapter 3), she insightfully examines how Haitian refugees’ blood has become a site of international anxieties over legal sovereignty, biopolitics, citizenship and reproductive rights. Referring to blood tests, she explains that the state uses the HIV antibody test as a screening device, one that both detects and produces legitimate and illegitimate migrant bod...

Sandra Cavallo and  Tessa Storey (eds), Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture: Bodies and Environments in Italy and England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. xvi, 328, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5261-1347-4.

Catharine Coleborne, Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. xiv, 224, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8724-0.

413 develop better openings and be more patient with those aspects of a text that even in our dualist world can, when not managed helpfully, make the reader feel bodily displeasure or ill-feeling. In her third book on the history of madness in colonial Australasia, Catherine Coleborne portrays a society in motion and one means of bringing order to it. As port cities, Melbourne and Auckland – th...

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750-2015 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. xiii, 378, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9769-0.

to have it and to rely on it. The price of the book, at £90, makes it inaccessible to them. I don’t know of plans to make the book more easily available in East Africa, but it is vital that this happen. In conclusion, Doyle’s analysis is subtle and rich. The body of research on which it is based is monumental. It is a book we can all rely on in moving towards the next stage in studying the prob...

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Generalised epileptic seizures are frequently accompanied by sudden reversible transitions from low amplitude irregular background activity to high amplitude, regular spike-wave discharges (SWD) in the EEG. The underlying mechanisms responsible for SWD generation and for the apparently spontaneous transitions to SWD and back again are still not fully understood. Specifically, the role of spatia...