A history of neurosurgery in its scientific and professional contexts

writing on the sociology and philosophy of science. "Thus when there are major advances in the methods of science (e.g. a Bachelardian epistemic break), these may arise from learning a novel way of deploying native intuitions in embodied inquiry that transcends shortcomings of prior ways, but not from a transcendence of the human body itself" is a fair example of the style. Suffice it to say that when, in another sentence, I read "individual masturbation", it seemed to make as much sense as the correct reading of "individual maturation". There are also far too many, far too long sentences-the longest I had the energy to count being 125 words. But, overall, Rasmussen has written an interesting and enjoyable account of some fascinating episodes in modern biology. If the gulf between the theoretical analyses of the historians and philosophers of science, and the scientists who do the work is to be narrowed, more studies of this kind are needed.