Perilous Enlightenment
(Manchester University Press, 1991)

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' … to be saluted; it confirms his standing as our leading explorer of the literature/medicine interface.'
Roy Porter

'… a very welcome addition to the emerging argument that there was an Enlightenment in England.'
Randolph Trumbach, Baruch College, City University of New York

' … presents us with a passionate, personal embodiment of the intellectual movement of our epoch towards postmodernism. His books represent a marvellous historicist forway into the postdisciplinary era.'
Bruce Mazlish, MIT

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