”…upon final assessment, New medical challenges is a real gem.” - in: Medical History 51(2), April 2007, 250–251“…there is much to be learned from all of the papers included […] and anyone interested in the period will profit from reading them.”- in: Journal of the History of Medicine, Vol. 62, October 2007“…a stimulating series of essays…”- in: Social History of Medicine, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2007, 171-172“New Medical Challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment is a useful and interesting volume that deserves many readers.” in: ISIS, Vol. 97, No. 4, 2006 “It is an important contribution to a social history of Scottish Enlightenment medicine, for here we can trace the debates within institutions, read the notes of anxious bedside physicians, follow disputes in diagnoses, and understand how matters of livelihood and rank, then as now, limited access to health care.”- in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2007, Vol. 81, No. 4, 867-868
