Publications
Books
Memory:
Fragments of a modern history
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Mesmerized:
powers of mind in Victorian Britain (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Articles
Accepted: “Cats on the Couch: the experimental production of
neurosis,” forthcoming in Science in
Context (expected publication 2012).
In press: “Manchurian candidates in the Cold
War,” in press, Grey Room (2011).
“The chemistry of truth and the literature of
dystopia” (translation/reprint) in Das Geständnis und seine Instanzen: Zur Bedeutungsverschiebung des Geständnisses im Prozess der
Moderne, ed. Anders Engberg-Pedersen,
Turia + Kant, Vienna (2011).
“A Forensics of the
Mind,” Isis (2007), June: 332-343.
“Mesmerism” (reprint of sections from Mesmerized), in Kelly Boyd, Rohan McWilliam, eds., Victorian
Studies Reader (Routledge 2007)
“Film and the transformation of memory in psychoanalysis,
1940-1960,” Science
in Context (2006), 19 (1): 111-136.
“The making of truth serum,” Bulletin for the History of
Medicine, (2005)
“Screening selves: sciences of identity and memory on film,”
History of Psychology, November 2004
“The chemistry of truth and the literature of dystopia” in Literature,
Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of
Gillian Beer, ed Helen
Small (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1998)
“A calculus of suffering: Ada
Lovelace and the corporeal constraints on women’s knowledge in early Victorian
England”, in Christopher Lawrence and Stephen Shapin,
eds., Science Incarnate: The physical presentation of intellectual selves
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)
“The construction of orthodoxies and heterodoxies in the
early Victorian life sciences”, B. Lightman (ed.),
Victorian Science in Context, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1997)
(With Anne Joseph), “Making the match: The hunt for
human traces, the scientific expert and the
public imagination”, in Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow, eds., Cultural Babbage: Technology, time
and invention, Faber and Faber (1996), 193-214
“Harriet Martineau and the Reform of the Invalid in
Victorian England”, Historical Journal, 38:3 (September 1995), 597-616
“Compasses All Awry: The iron ship and the ambiguities of
cultural authority in Victorian England”, Victorian Studies (Autumn
1994), 69-98
“Mesmerism and Popular Culture in Early Victorian England”, History
of Science (September 1994), 32:96, 317-343
“Ethereal Epidemic: Mesmerism and the Introduction of
Inhalation Anesthesia to early Victorian London”, Social History of Medicine
(1991), 4: 1-27
Short pieces
“Mesmerism,” Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914, ed.
Thomas Carson (New York: Scribner’s, 2006)
“History of memory,” Science Year (New York: World
Book Publications, 2006)
“Mesmerism,” in Reader’s Guide to the History of Science,
ed. Arne Hessenbruch (London ;
Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000)
“Mesmerism,” in Oxford Companion to the history of science,
ed. J. L. Heilbron (Oxford ;
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003)
“Harriet Martineau”, in G. Kelly, ed., Dictionary
of Literary Biography: British Reform Writers 1832-1914 (Washington,
D.C.: Bruccolli Clark Layman, 1998)