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Recent Content

Review published on Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Author: 
Thomas Raymond Wellock
Reviewer: 
Russell Allison

Allison on Wellock, 'Safe Enough?: A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk'

Thomas Raymond Wellock. Safe Enough?: A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2021. 376 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-38115-5.

Reviewed by Russell Allison (Auburn University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (June, 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Review published on Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Author: 
Jon Bialecki
Reviewer: 
Lisa Vox

Vox on Bialecki, 'Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End'

Jon Bialecki. Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-9935-5; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-9936-2. 

Review published on Monday, June 27, 2022
Author: 
Christina Ramos
Reviewer: 
Rebekka Michaelsen

Michaelsen on Ramos, 'Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment'

Christina Ramos. Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xiv + 250 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6656-3; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6657-0. 

Review published on Sunday, June 26, 2022
Author: 
Alun Withey
Reviewer: 
Sharrona Pearl

Pearl on Withey, 'Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900'

Alun Withey. Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900. Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Illustrations. 344 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-12784-5.

Reviewed by Sharrona Pearl (Drexel University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (June, 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)