The Growth of Medical Thoughtby Lester S King, Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press, 1963, pp. 254, $5, 41s.

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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...

Master ’ s Seminar The University of Chicago Department of Statistics

A 2x2 factorial design was implemented to examine how Chinese and Americans performed differently in perspective taking in comprehension. In order to investigate the different mental processes that underlie such perspective taking for these two groups of people, we tracked their eye movements while they were following instructions to manipulate objects. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) revealed ...

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...

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