The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities ...

Authoritative, highly readable history of aerodynamics and the major theorists and their contributions.

This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.

A biography of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century.

The distance between medical and public priorities is exposed in four case studies that reveal the human choices governing scientific innnovation and explore the political ...

This book explores intelligence testing in the US through the career of Henry Herbert Goddard.

Early in 1836 Charles Darwin spent two months in Australia as part of his voyage around the world on the Beagle. During this time he visited the town of Sydney, travelled on ...

This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the ...