Edited by Bernard Harris and Waltraud Ernst, both Lecturers at the University of Southampton

'This is an important book. The papers, arranged chronologically, encompass a breathtaking range of topics, and highlight exactly how controversial and contested the definitions of race remain in contemporary social science research.' - Medical History, Oct 2000'It is a well-written, well-researched collection examining a number of issues relevant not only to the social history of medicine but also to the history of race and science in Western Society.' - Angus Bancroft, University of Edinburgh Social History of Medicine [Vol. 14 No.1 2001]'The individual contributions are mostly of high quality and some significantly extend our knowledge of how 'race' was constructed.' - Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mark Harrison

• David Arnold, SOAS, University of London; Hannah Augstein; Michael Clark, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London ; Harriet Deacon, University of Cape Town; Bernard Harris, Southampton University; Waltraud Ernst, Southampton University; Mark Jackson, University of Manchester; Norris Saakwa-Mante; Jonathan Sawday, Southampton University; Matthew Thomson, University of Sheffield; Paul Weindling, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford; Mick Worboys, Sheffield Hallam University.