Reviews

A full list of book reviews (and the occasional review of television programs, exhibitions or even a musical) is provided below.

2010

McManus,I.C. (2010) Evidence-based [Review of Roderick Buchanan's Playing with Fire: The controversial career of Hans J Eysenck], TLS, October 15th, 2010, p.36.

McManus, I.C. (2010) [Review of Helen MacDonald's Possessing the dead: The artful science of anatomy], TLS, October 8th, 2010, p. 26.

McManus, I.C. The Lighter Side [article on fun], The Psychologist, 23 (9): 703.

2009

McManus, I. C. (2009). Bad science [Review of the book Bad Science by Ben Goldacre). Times Higher Education, 22nd January 2009, pp.52-3.

McManus, I. C. (2009). The brain neuroplastic [Review of the book The brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge]. The Psychologist, 22(1), 40. 

2008

McManus, I.C. (2008). The book of the week [Review of the book What would you do? Juggling bioethics and ethnography by Charles L Bosk, Times Higher Education, 18th December 2008, 50-51.

McManus, I. C. (2008). Book reviews [Review of the book The soul in the brain: the cerebral basis of language art and belief by Michael R Trimble]. British Journal of Psychiatry, 193, 175-176.

McManus, I. C. (2008, October 16th). Mirror image of our selves [Review of Brainstorming: view and interviews on the mind by Shaun Gallagher]. Times Higher Education, p. 52.

McManus, I. C. (2008, May 29). Chris McManus on our spitting image [Review of the book The kingdom of infinite space: a fantastical journey around your head by Raymond Tallis]. Times Higher Education, pp. 44-45.

McManus, I. C. (2008, April 17). Palmistry's digital analogue [Review of the book The finger book: sex, behaviour and disease revealed in the fingers by John T Manning]. Times Higher Education, p. 46.

McManus, I. C. (2008, February 14). Something for the weekend? [Review of the book The humble little condom: a history by Aine Collier]. Times Higher Education, p. 46. [3.2 MB pdf]

2007

McManus, I. C. (2007, March 2). A pioneering cutter with a conscience [Review of the book [Digging up the dead: uncovering the life and times of an extraordinary surgeon by Druin Burch]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 22-23.

McManus, I. C. (2007, May 4). Disobedient Members [Review of the book Impotence: A cultural history by Angus McLaren]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 21.

McManus, I. C. (2007, September 21). Phlegm and nonsense [Review of the book Passions and tempers by Noga Arikha. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 22-23.

McManus, I. C. (2007). Prions, pleasure and purple notes [Review of the books Proust was a neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer and The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science by Cretien van Campen]. Nature, 450, 30.

2006

McManus, I. C. (2006, April 14). 'Accidents' and wild boars in the woods [Review of the art exhibition Handel and the castrati]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 13.

McManus, I. C. (2006, September 29). Brain waves from the sea [Review of the book In search of memory: the emergence of a new science of mind by Eric R Kandel]. Times Higher Education Supplement.

McManus, I. C. (2006, July 14). Hippocratic oafs, curers of ill repute [Review of the book Bad medicine: doctors doing harm since Hippocrates by David Woottoon and How doctors think: clinical judgement and the practice of medicine by Kathryn Montgomery]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 22-23.

McManus, I. C. (2006, March 24). Some people are born great, while others just thrust it upon themselves [Review of the book The creating brain: the neuroscience of genius by Nancy C Andreasen]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 30.

McManus, I. C. (2006, May 26). Supertext [Review of the book Inquiring man: the theory of personal constructs]. Times Higher Education Supplement, Textbook Guide, I.

McManus, I. C. (2006, October 20). Wittgenstein would have whistled along [Review of the musical Monty Python's Spamalot]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 13.

2005

McManus, I. C. (2005). A thoughtful companion [Review of the book The Oxford Companion to the Mind]. The Psychologist, 18, 158.

McManus, I. C. (2005, February 18). Chris McManus: review [Review of the art exhibition This objective of that object - Tino Seghal]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 11.

McManus, I. C. (2005). Engel, Engels and the side of the angels [Review of the book Biopsychosocial medicine]. Lancet, 365, 2169-2170.

McManus, I. C. (2005, September 16). Tilting at the windmills of the mind [Review of the book Why life speeds up as you get older: how memory shapes our past by Douwe Draaisma]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 24-25.

2004

McManus, I. C. (2004). Book review [Review of the book Comparative vertebrate lateralization]. Annals of Human Biology, 31, 497-499.

McManus, I. C. (2004, November 26). Doubleplusgood prole-watching on Airstrip One. Times Higher Education Supplement.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Grappling with the Hydra [Review of the book Handedness and brain asymmetry by Marian Annett]. Cortex, 40, 139-141.

McManus, I. C. (2004, April 9). Grasp on life allowed man to dream [Review of the book The hand by Raymond Tallis]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 25.

McManus, I. C. (2004, October 1). Talk is tough when hands are tied [Review of the book Hearing gesture: how our hands help us think by Susan Goldin-Meadow]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 24-25.

2003

McManus, I. C. (2003). The arithmetic of risk. Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 96, 235-238. /medical-education/2006-THES-Review-BadMedicine_HowDoctorsThink.pdf

2002

McManus, I. C. (2002, October 17). If you change a four-lane highway into a six-lane highway and back again, by how much do you increase its capacity? [Review of the book Reckoning with Risk]. London Review of Books, 24, pp. 34-35.

1999

McManus, I. C. (1999). Book reviews [Review of the book Developmental science]. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 475-476.

McManus, I. C. (1999). The eye captures... Current Biology, 9, R390-R391.

1998

McManus, I. C. (1998). Written by the right hemisphere [Review of the book Of two minds: the revolutionary science of dual-brain psychology by Fredric Schiffer]. Nature, 396, 132.

1997

McManus, I. C. (1997). Book reviews [Review of the book Intellectual development in adulthood: the Seattle longitudinal study by Warner Schaie]. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 390-391.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Evolutionary Psychiatry [Review of the book Evolutionary psychiatry: a new beginning]. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 90, 174-175.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Travels of a neuro-romantic [Review of the book The island of the colour-blind by Oliver Sacks]. Nature, 385, 34.

1996 

McManus, I. C. (1996). Book reviews [Review of the book Longitudinal research on individual development: present status and future perspectives]. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, 97-98.

1995

McManus, I. C. (1995). Medicine and books [Review of the book Cognitive assessment for clinicians by John R Hodges]. British Medical Journal, 310, 608.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Medicine and books [Review of the book New pathways to medical education: learning to learn at Harvard Medical School]. British Medical Journal, 311, 67.

1993

McManus, I. C. (1993). Book review [Review of the book Mending minds: a guide to the new psychiatry of depression, anxiety, and other serious mental disorders by L L Heston]. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 56, 117. 

1992

McManus, I. C. (1992). Book review [Review of the book The international handbook of addiction behaviour by Llana Belle Glass]. AIDS Care, 4, 355.

McManus, I. C. (1992). Book shelf [Review of the books The Lop-sided Ape by Michael C Corballis and The Left-hander Syndrome by Stanley Coren]. Lancet, 339, 1467-1468.

1991

McManus, I. C. (1991). Book reviews [Review of the book Computer applications in Psychiatry and Psychology]. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 1, 183-184.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Book shelf [Review of the book Handedness and developmental disorder]. Lancet, 337, 902.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Book shelf [Review of the books Measuring human problems: a practical guide and Human psychopharmacology, vol 3: measures and methods]. Lancet, 338, 41-42.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Only fools and angels [Review of the television programme Your life in their hands]. British Medical Journal, 302, 1157-1158.

1990

McManus, I. C. (1990). Book shelf [Review of the book Rebel with a cause: the autobiography of Hans Eysenck]. Lancet, 335, 1064.

McManus, I. C. (1990). Book shelf [Review of the book Tomorrow's doctors: the path to successful practice in the 1990s by Benjamin H Natelson]. Lancet, 335, 1246-1247.

McManus, I. C. (1990). Nine ladies laid bare? [Review of the book Before the gates of excellence: the determinants of creative genius by R Ochsel]. British Medical Journal, 301, 998-999.

1989

McManus, I. C. (1989). Book shelf [Review of the book A practical guide to clinical teaching in medicine]. Lancet, 333, 934.

1988

McManus, I. C. (1988). Patronage, promotion and policy [Review of the book Doctors and their careers by Isobel Allen]. Lancet, 331, 1327-1328.

1987

McManus, I. C. (1987). Book reviews [Review of the book Investigating abnormal behaviour]. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 60, 299.

McManus, I. C. (1987). Book reviews [Review of the book Language, aphasia and the right hemisphere by Chris Code]. Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 6, 354-355.

McManus, I. C. (1987). Book reviews [Review of the book Left, right, hand and brain: the right shift theory by Marian Annett]. Psychological Medicine, 17, 523-525.

McManus, I. C. (1987). Reviews of books [Review of the book Medicine and the behavioural sciences by Michael J Pritchard]. Lancet, 329, 661-662.

1986

McManus, I. C. (1986). Book reviews [Review of the book Left side, right side: a review of laterality research by A Beaton]. British Journal of Psychology, 77, 419-421.

McManus, I. C. (1986). Reviews of books [Review of the book Bedside manners: the troubled history of doctors and patients by Edward Shorter]. Lancet, 328, 608.

McManus, I. C. (1986). Reviews of books [Review of the book Implementing problem-based medical education]. Lancet, 327, 775.

1984

McManus, I. C. (1984). Bookshelf [Review of the book A handbook for clinical teachers]. Medical Teacher, 6, 113.

1983

McManus, I. C. (1983). Book reviews [Review of the book The alcoholic brain: CT scan and psychological findings by Maria A Ron]. Psychological Medicine, 13, 923-944.

McManus, I. C. (1983). Book reviews [Review of the book Lateral preferences and human behaviour]. British Journal of Psychology, 74, 418-419.

1981

McManus, I. C. (1981). Book reviews [Review of the book Perception of pictures vol 1: Alberti's window - the projective model of pictorial information]. British Journal of Psychology, 72, 514-515.