Louise Foxcroft
Louise Foxcroft has published two books, The Making of Addiction: The Use and Abuse of Opiates in 19th Century Britain and Hot Flushes, Cold Science: The History of the Modern Menopause, and is working on a third, also in the history of medicine.
Articles by Louise Foxcroft
Naomi’s noo noo nonsense
If you thought it was what’s in your head that counts, think again. It’s what’s in your pants, at least in the world of Naomi Wolf’s Vagina. Louise Foxcroft dives in
Read article
Book review: Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio and The Tell-Tale Brain by VS Ramachandran
Can the brain be explained? Louise Foxcroft reads two of the world's leading neuroscientists to find out
Read article
Book review: Capital Affairs by Frank Mort
Louise Foxcroft exposes the dirty secrets of '50s London
Read article
Book review: Slaughter on a Snowy Morn by Colin Evans
Louise Foxcroft on a bloody murder and the birth of forensic science
Read article
Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Louise Foxcroft on the oddest biography ever
Read article
Book Review: Tormented Hope
Louise Foxcroft finds a portrait of famous hypochondriacs really hits a nerve
Read article
The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer
Louise Foxcroft is perplexed by a book that squeezes the life out of the Black Death
Read article