Victor F. Petrenko and Robert W. Whitworth, 1999. The physics of ice. Oxford, etc., Oxford University Press, 384 pp. ISBN 0-19851-895-1, Hardback. £70.

Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. xii, 312, $105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-967813-6.

This innovative and imaginatively researched study more than fulfils its ambition to explore the relationship between physicians and the lay public in early modern Italy. Taking a fresh perspective on medical history, the authors focus on the texts and practices devoted to staying healthy rather than coping with illness and demonstrate the growing appetite for such knowledge. Although they high...

Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 304, £20.00, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9780199599035.

Erin Sullivan, Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. ix-227, $100, hardback, ISBN: 9780198739654.

the regional, national and international aspects of prostitution, Stauter-Halsted shows how the international trade in women, then as now, intersected concerns with health, family and personal safety, alongside poverty, unemployment as well as a hostile social environment and deplorable economic conditions at home. In this context, Stauter-Halsted also provides a much needed correction to the p...

Virginia Berridge, Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 160, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780199688463.

as an obligation of the state and a right of citizens, helping fuel a cross-class and -race alliance that pressured the colonial government to step up to the plate. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including the control of infectious diseases, city sanitation reform, the gender/race biases shaping health systems and health education. They also employ different methodological approaches...

His intended biography, and why Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton Ullica Segerstrasse (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013) ISBN 978-0-198-60727-4

approaches it will be difficult to make progress,” comments Terrence Sejnowski from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. “There are enough good neuroscientists working on the Human Brain Project that biological progress can surely be made, and the same holds for the computer science part of the project.” The project may still have a whiff of science fiction and megalomania attached to it...