Review : Dissident history

Five essays on mistaken turns in science appear in Hidden Histories of
Science (Granta, £7.99, ISBN 1 86207 005 9). Here, among others, you’ll
find: Jonathan Miller on hypnotism, a window on the mind that science shuttered
for a century; Oliver Sachs on revelations gleaned from alien limbs, colour
blindness and migraine; and Stephen Jay Gould contemplating how silly we are to
think that evolution goes forwards.