MEDICINE AND MODERNISM: A BIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY HEAD

MEDICINE AND MODERNISM: A BIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY HEAD edited by L.S. Jacyna, 368 pp, London, Pickering & Chatto, 2008, $99 This book is published in a series entitled “Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century.” The author, Stephen Jacyna, a professional medical-historian with a special interest in the history of the neurosciences and working at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London (UK), notes in the introduction that (medical) biography as a form of historiography has become less popular during the past decades, probably because it often led …