Inhibition: History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain »

Roger Smith is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at Lancaster University, England. He is the author of Trial by Medicine:
Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials (Edinburgh, 1982) and co-editor (with Brian Wynne) of Expert Evidence:
Interpreting Science in the Law (Routledge, 1989).

"This is the first work ever to deal with the history of the concept of inhibition as such; here it is richly conceived as a system of meanings that cuts a wide path across scientific disciplines and cultural discourses."—Anne Harrington, Harvard University