This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease - a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that 'nervousness' was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm…
Error and uncertainty in scientific practice
Picturing Women's Health
This collection of essays looks at sexuality and reproduction from an evolutionary perspective. Covering experimental discoveries as well as theoretical investigations, the volume explores the relationship between evolution and other areas of human behaviour.
Sketches of Irish Character: by Mrs S C Hall
5 An Overview of the Current Status of Measurement Science: From the Standpoint of the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM) - Luca Mari6 Can We Dispense with the Notion of 'True Value' in Metrology? - Fabien Grégis; 7 Calibration in Scientific Practices which Explore Poor…
Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science.