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  • ISOLATION
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    ISOLATION
    ALISON BASHFORD
    This book examines the coercive and legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries in a wide range of contexts. The political and cultural history of this period raises a number of questions about coercive exclusion. The essays in this collection examine why isolation has been such a persistent strategy in liberal and non-liber...

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  • CONTAGION
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    CONTAGION
    ALISON BASHFORD / CLAIRE HOOKER
    In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture. Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in...

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  • DECODING THE HAND
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    DECODING THE HAND
    ALISON BASHFORD
    “Delightful.”—Times Literary Supplement • “Intriguing.”—The Sydney Morning Herald • “Fascinating, well-illustrated.”—Nature • “Altogether surprising and hard to categorise.”—London Review of Books • “There are many stories to be told here, and Bashford tells them well.”—Literary Review The astonishing history of palmistry and biometrics—from occult physicians to the very founda...

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  • THE HUXLEYS
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    THE HUXLEYS
    ALISON BASHFORD
    A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.   This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley (“Darwin’s Bulldog”) and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley. Between them, they communicated to the world t...

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