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Science 22 January 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5401, p. 493
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5401.493
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HISTORY:
Entrancing Influences

A review by Alan Gauld

Mesmerized Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Alison Winter
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998. 478 pp. $30.00, £23.95. ISBN 0-226-90219-6.

The development of scientific and medical authority and the understanding of mental functioning are among the many issues of the history of science and social history that Winter explores while discussing the rise and fall of mesmerism in England.
The author is in the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.

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