Health and medicine in Britain since 1860

annual meeting of the BAAS in 1927 that there should be a comprehensive moratorium on scientific research. She also draws on the controversy to deconstruct dominant representations of rationality and Englishness. Working in the underresearched field of the history of inter-war university education, Keith Vernon describes University Grants Commission-inspired efforts to inculcate "culturally deprived" provincial students with "high levels of proficiency with a largeness of view, derived from ... a disparate yet cohesive community of fellow scholars" (p. 180). In a pioneering voyage into the somewhat arcane world of biopolitics, Rhodri Hayward discovers unexpected intellectual threads connecting the ubiquitous Sir Arthur Keith to the maverick Morley Roberts, author of Warfare in the human body (1920) and Malignancy and evolution (1926). Finally, Lesley Hall provides an overview of the hectic life of Stella Brown, an activist in the Labour and Communist parties, the Fabian Society, the Workers' Birth Control Group, the Malthusian League and (briefly) the Eugenics Society. Brown appears to have been less concerned with theoretically defining citizenship and regeneration than living the life of a regenerated citizen-and woman. This collection contains a number of incisive contributions. However, it would have made for more compelling reading had the time-frame been extended to the mid1950s, the moment at which patriotic "regeneration" came to be radically modified within increasingly consensual ideological and party political frameworks.