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Science 28 May 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5675, pp. 1248 - 1249
DOI: 10.1126/science.1097381
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
How the Human Animal Found Its Self

A review by Adrian Woolfson

Flesh in the Age of Reason The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul
by Roy Porter
Norton, New York, 2004. 592 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-393-05075-0. Allen Lane (Penguin), London, 2003. £25. ISBN 0-713-99149-6.

In his last book, Porter reviews 18th-century arguments about the mind, body, and soul to explore the interplay among "the moral, the material, and the medical" in Enlightenment Britain.
The reviewer is at the University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Box 111, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2SP, UK. E-mail: aw135{at}cam.ac.uk

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