Essay Reviews and Book Reviews
"Microbes and Men," Review of BBC video series, Special section on "The
History of Science in Film," Isis, 84 (1993), pp. 761-762.
Review of Saul Benison, A. Clifford Barger, and Elin L. Wolfe, Walter B.
Cannon: The Life and Times of a Young Scientist, in American Historical
Review, October 1990, pp. 1302-1304.
Review of Nicolaas A. Rupke, ed., Vivisection in Historical Perspective,
in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 63 (1989), 652-655.
Essay review of Charles Webster, ed., Health, Medicine and Mortality in
the Sixteenth Century, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 13 (1982),
121 125.
Review of A.J. Youngson's The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine,
in Victorian Studies, Winter 1981, 233 235.
"Raw Data," An essay review of Thomas McKeown's The Role of Medicine, in
Isis, 72 (1981), 93 95.
Review of Sally Smith Hughes, The Virus: A History of the Concept, in Journal
of the History of Medicine, 33 (1978), 561 562.
"The Eradication of Smallpox: A Revisionist View," a review of Peter Razzell's
Edward Jenner's Cowpox Vaccine and The Conquest of Smallpox, in Science,
201 (1978), 519 520.
Review of Louis Nicol's L'épopée pastorienne et la médecine
vétérinaire, in Journal of the History of Medicine, 32 (1977),
89 91.
"Bernard's Real Methods," a review of F.L. Holmes' Claude Bernard and Animal
Chemistry, in Science, 187 (1975), 639 640.
Review of Emile Duclaux's Pasteur: The History of a Mind, in Journal of
the History of Medicine, 29 (1974), 359 360.
Review of Gert H. Brieger's Medical America in the Nineteenth Century:
Readings from the Literature, in Journal of the History of Medicine, 29
(1974), 124 126.
Review of L.J. Rather's Addison and the White Corpuscles, in Isis, 64 (1973),
429 430.
Review of Reuben R. Merliss' The Year of the Death, in Journal of the History
of Medicine, 22 (1967), 338 339.
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