History of Science & Medicine

Major works

• Asylum Writings in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• The Correspondence of Dr William Hunter
• The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636–1691
• Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660–1885
• Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery
• Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture
• Famine and Disease in Ireland
• Ghosts: A Social History
• The History of Old Age in England, 1600–1800
• The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820
• Literature and Science, 1660–1834
• The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831–1836
• Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends: With a Fragment of William Wotton's lost Life of Boyle
• The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765–1820
• The Works of Charles Babbage
• The Works of Charles Darwin
• The Works of Robert Boyle

Monographs

• Alchemists of Human Nature: Psychological Utopianism in Gross, Jung, Reich and Fromm
• The Aliveness of Plants: The Darwins at the Dawn of Plant Science
• Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914
• James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
• Joseph Banks and the British Museum: The World of Collecting 1770–1830
• Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835
• Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Sir Henry Head
• Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany
• Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
• Negotiated Knowledge: Medical Periodical Publishing in Scotland, 1733–1832
• Paracelsus’s Theory of Embodiment: Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe
• Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science
• Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England
• Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
• Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences
• Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820–58
• The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain
• Typhoid in Uppingham: Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875–7