Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, by James Delbourgo
James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment
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Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial, by Stuart Blume
Free market ideology has contributed to ‘vaccine hesitancy’, endangering us all, says Harry Collins
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The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture, by Heike Bauer
A study of one of Europe’s leading thinkers on sexuality contends that brutality is a force behind much queer activism and political thinking
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The week in higher education – 24 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Bath governance under scrutiny on senior pay
Remuneration committee member formerly led construction company that won £64 million in contracts from university
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Singapore’s fling with global stars sidelines local talent
Singaporeans are starting to question the benefit of recruiting so much global research talent, say Pang Eng Fong and Linda Lim
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Interview with Sir Alan Wilson
The chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute discusses his career in higher education, making the case for the humanities, and the nascence of the Russell Group
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S. Allen Counter, 1944-2017
A neuroscientist and explorer who became ‘a great champion of inclusion and belonging’ has died
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What are you reading? – 24 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The state of higher education in Hungary
With the Hungarian government clamping down on universities and championing labourers over philosophers, David Matthews meets those living with the consequences
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The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew, by Yair Mintzker
Book of the week: Bryan Cheyette straddles truth and fiction in observer accounts of anti-Semitic persecution
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New and noteworthy – 24 August 2017
Gender still matters, even for Angela Merkel; the future of education and Moocs; religion and terrorism; sports fandom; and the rise of the coroner
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Scholarly memorabilia: which item in your office would you save from a fire?
Scholars divulge which treasured possession they would rescue from their office before heading for the emergency exit if a fire broke out on campus