The Canon: Unmasking Medicine. By Ian Kennedy
Unmasking Medicine was published in 1981 following Ian Kennedy's Reith lectures. Its ideas were intended for, and reached, a wide audience. His central premise was that medicine had been...
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No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale
Andrew Briggs finds much to praise in an enlightening introduction to nanoscience
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'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller
In the age of The X Factor, it is difficult to assess someone else's work without slipping into the Simon Cowell syndrome. For a literary critic, it feels as though reading for review has become a...
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Book of the week: The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
Electronification won't kill off books entirely, discovers Andreas Hess
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Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
At last a work that unpacks the reality of US rural poverty, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
It's not often that you find fashionable chefs such as Moro's Samuel Clark or Nigella Lawson endorsing the latest book on human evolution, but then this is an unusual and compelling read. Richard...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of FirmsEdited by Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman chair in economics, Harvard...
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
A broadbrush approach to 1930s US culture sweeps too far and wide, says Susan Currell
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Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK
It is timely that Jo Phoenix's edited collection, Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK, should have made its way into print just after the Policing and Crime Act 2009 became...
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The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse
This is a book about the delight of art and the art of delight. It traffics in "imaginancies", to use the term David Cast borrows from Inigo Jones after Baldassare Castiglione (appropriation being an...
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Inside Hefce - Exclusive!
Dramatic insight into Hefce's plans for revising the impact score in the forthcoming research excellence framework have been given to The Poppletonian by an "inside source".Speaking "off the record"...
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More contact? When?
Simplify grant applications and release time for teaching, says Tim Birkhead
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Research intelligence: End unfit comparisons
Hefce should 'normalise' results in the REF, an eminent scientist recommends. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Leader: Fight it out with the facts alone
If climate research is seen as 'tribal' and unable to bear scrutiny, the whole scientific edifice is weakened