Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change. Ted Underwood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xxii+206.

Elizabeth Hallam, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 444, $57.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86189-375-8.

hospital she had booked into. She was shaved, enema-ed, and wheeled into the labour ward, a huge room with beds of screaming women, separated by curtains and with students checking them. After the birth she was wheeled into a corridor for a day or two until a bed in a ward became available. She only had contact with her baby at feeding times, she was in bed for nine days, home on the tenth, ‘wi...

Sharon M. Leon, An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 240, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-03898-8.

date by someone wishing to imitate Galen. But this is unlikely for several reasons. While such ‘reconstructions’ are known for literary themes, none involves such precise detail of past (or fictitious) events, and none of the pseudonymous medical material (excluding the Hippocratic letters) bears any resemblance to this type of pastiche. Arguments from verbal parallels with later Christian mate...

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It is well known that the number of modes of a kernel density estimator is monotone nonincreasing in the bandwidth if the kernel is a Gaussian density. There is numerical evidence of nonmonotonicity in the case of some non-Gaussian kernels, but little additional information is available. The present paper provides theoretical and numerical descriptions of the extent to which the number of modes...