Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste. By Carl Wilson. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. 243 pp. ISBN 978-1-4411-6677-7

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.

Rank, reinvention and the Nobel Prize Experiment Eleven Peter Pringle (Bloomsbury Publishing, London; 2012) ISBN 978-1-4008-1401-7

The story of streptomycin is no ordinary tale. On August 23rd, 1943, in an isolated basement room, a brave and determined graduate student, Albert Schatz, began his quest to cure tuberculosis. He, with his soil bacteria and virulent tubercle bacilli, was banished to that room by his supervisor Selman Waksman, who, like everyone else, dreaded the infection. Waksman never visited Schatz’s workroo...

Alison Bashford, Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp. I-XII, 1-466, ISBN: 978-0-231-14766-8.

confidentiality oblige, when it concerns – as is often the case – genital or urinary disease. Coste successfully underlines that the writing of consilia can be linked with a poetic or literary approach: the medical expert writes the private history of a patient, as a worthy heir to Hippocrates; he selects words and suitable expressions according to the recipient (an esteemed fellow-member will ...

Cathy Hannabach, Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. viii, 153, $67.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-58158-7.

on this tradition to outline the way in which two sensory messages arriving simultaneously – for example through the eye and the ear – laid down associations that were then reexcited whenever just one of the elements reappeared. To use his favourite example, the sight and sound of a bleating lamb laid down association fibres connecting the visual image of a woolly quadruped with the auditory st...

Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety, By David Walters and Theo Nichols, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 177 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-00194-7

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