History of science Books
Princeton University Press The New Era in American Mathematics 19201950
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clearly the definitive treatment of the ascendancy of the American research mathematics community to international prominence during the first half of the twentieth century. As such, it will serve as the point of departure for anyone wanting to delve further into the mathematics being produced in the United States in this time period."---Calvin Jongsma, MAA Reviews"Karen Parshall masterfully examines the self-laudatory claim for ‘a new era’ that elite American mathematicians advanced as they secured leadership positions on the international stage. . . . The writing is elegant and at times gripping."---Jemma Lorenat, Isis
£38.25
Princeton University Press Deep Time
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£80.00
Princeton University Press The Land Beneath the Ice
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This personal account adds much piquancy to a story of scientific discovery and ongoing exploration of a compellingly unique continent."---Karen Bordanaro, Library Journal"A meticulously detailed and beautifully illustrated insider account of the pioneering, frequently haphazard radar mapping expeditions [Drewry] and a hardy cohort of glaciologists embarked on during a heady decade of technological advancement during the 1970s."---Duncan Madden, Geographical
£29.75
Princeton University Press Coral Lives
Book SynopsisA literary and cultural history of coralas an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphorToday, coral and the human-caused threats to coral reef ecosystems symbolize our ongoing planetary crisis. In the nineteenth century, coral represented something else; as a recurring motif in American literature and culture, it shaped popular ideas about human society and politics. In Coral Lives, Michele Currie Navakas tells the story of coral as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a cherished personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including works by such writers as Sarah Josepha Hale, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and George Washington Cable, Navakas shows how coral once helped Americans to recognize both the potential and the limits of interdependenceto imagine that their society could grow, like a coral reef, by sustainTrade Review"[An] eloquent book. . . . Navakas integrates so many sources so well and with such a sharp eye on the complexities of race, cultural patterns, and global subjects that this book will become a ready model for scholarship in the environmental humanities."---Katharine Anderson, H-Environment"Smart and fascinating. . . . To see coral through the eyes of the myriad sources brought together here is to be stunned by what we have lost, are losing—not merely coral itself, but our memory and knowledge of it, our relationship to the very past the coral lives of our ancestors built and bequeathed to us, trusting us to keep building, to keep alive, the surprises of life’s ceaseless becomings."---Laura Dassow Walls, The Review of English Studies"Coral Lives takes an unexpected approach to the environmental humanities. It does not trace a genealogy of coral as a vanishing object reflecting increasing anthropogenic damage to the natural world; Instead, it recollects meanings that are all but lost to us today. But it is the potential inspiration that inheres in the act of recovering lost narratives that gives this book value in the current crisis."---Dana Luciano, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
£29.75
Princeton University Press Coral Lives Literature Labor and the Making of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] eloquent book. . . . Navakas integrates so many sources so well and with such a sharp eye on the complexities of race, cultural patterns, and global subjects that this book will become a ready model for scholarship in the environmental humanities."---Katharine Anderson, H-Environment"Smart and fascinating. . . . To see coral through the eyes of the myriad sources brought together here is to be stunned by what we have lost, are losing—not merely coral itself, but our memory and knowledge of it, our relationship to the very past the coral lives of our ancestors built and bequeathed to us, trusting us to keep building, to keep alive, the surprises of life’s ceaseless becomings."---Laura Dassow Walls, The Review of English Studies"Coral Lives takes an unexpected approach to the environmental humanities. It does not trace a genealogy of coral as a vanishing object reflecting increasing anthropogenic damage to the natural world; Instead, it recollects meanings that are all but lost to us today. But it is the potential inspiration that inheres in the act of recovering lost narratives that gives this book value in the current crisis."---Dana Luciano, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
£56.00
Princeton University Press Power Speed and Form
Book SynopsisPresents an account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939 - the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete.Trade Review"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007""David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr., hope that their new book will increase technological literacy among college students. But this well-written and nicely illustrated volume may also reach a broader audiences. Power, Speed, and Form will introduce engineering students to eminent predecessors from whom there is still much to learn, especially about the use of numerical language. This book will also help students in other disciplines appreciate engineering approaches to problem solving."---Thomas P. Hughes, American Scientist"The authors discuss eight transformative inventions . . . within their sociocultural context. They also examine the lives of the inventors as well as the cumulative process of invention. The superb figures . . . and many photos nicely illustrate the Billingtons' overriding themes: the importance of technological literacy and the fact that original engineering is based on simple ideas." * Library Journal *"The book is a sequel to The Innovators (1996), which covered American engineering from 1776 to 1883; the two books together explain the principal engineering ideas that helped transform the U.S. from an agrarian society in the eighteenth century to the industrial civilization it became in the twentieth century."---George Cohen, Booklist"[A] coherent and appealing approach, introducing engineering as a historical sequence of ideas and events, part of a canon of great ideas. . . . [A]n engaging narrative that explores the work of key innovators. . . . For the Billingtons, design is the primary function of engineering, one that distinguishes it from science."---Robin Tatu, ASEE Prism"The authors . . . discuss the development of each [innovation] in a way that is readily accessible to building engineers and non-engineers--their ultimate purpose. . . . The book, then, was meant to serve as a text for introductory engineering courses, especially those designed to help liberal arts students satisfy technical literacy requirements. Such courses can also excite engineering students by explaining how many innovations sprang from ideas that though novel were relatively simple."---Ray Bert, Civil Engineering"By introducing the fundamental theories upon which various significant technological achievements are based, Billington Sr. . . . and Billington Jr. . . . shed light on the unseen foundations of invention. . . . A remarkable accomplishment of this book is that it presents these theories and equations in a manner that is understandable to general readers, rather than accessible only to engineers or scientists. Thus, it fills a much-needed role in helping to enhance technological literacy and understanding among the general public. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Power, Speed, and Form is physically an extraordinary volume...chock full of the most extraordinary photos.... Yet this is not a picture book. It is a serious history of the development of American technology in the period between the year 1876...and 1939.... [W]hat is unique, and what, along with the illustrations, makes this book something of a treasure, is the inclusion of more than forty sidebars, each a full-page explication in words, numerical formulas, and splendidly clear diagrams, of the historic innovations discussed in the text."---Samuel C. Florman, Technology and Culture
£999.99
Princeton University Press The Sky Is for Everyone
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing female astronomers from 1960 to today."---Simon Ings, New Scientist"The particulars of each woman’s experience are unique, which is part of what makes their stories compelling. . . . As I read through the book, no single essay stood out to me. Instead, I was affected (sometimes deeply) by each woman’s story in a different way, and I often felt compelled to take note of some phrase or piece of sage advice."---Nicolle Zellner, American Scientist"Trimble and Weintraub bring together essays by women who reached for the stars in this uplifting anthology. . . . Filled with moving testimonies and awe-inspiring discoveries, this is a wonderful tribute to the joys of science and the tough road many women had on the way to forging their careers." * Publishers Weekly *"The essays in The Sky Is for Everyone illustrate the progress women have made in the field, although that push to equality is not complete."---Jeff Foust, Space Review"This anthology of 37 short autobiographies covers more than six decades of astronomy and shows the varied paths of female astronomers and the roadblocks that can slow or sideline their success."---Ashley Yeager, Science News"These stories will absolutely inspire our next generation of female scientists. . . . [The Sky Is for Everyone] is an absolute must-read for any young lady who is thinking of starting a career in astronomy. The same applies to anybody who is interested in the history of women in astronomy."---Mary McIntyre, Journal of the British Astronomical Association"[These autobiographical essays] provide a rich portrait of the experiences, ranging from triumphs to heartbreaks, that constitute the lives of women in contemporary astronomy. . . .They demonstrate that a rewarding career in astronomy is possible for anyone who gives it a try and succeeds at overcoming the many hurdles that confront us all regardless of gender."---David H. DeVorkin, Quest"A communal love letter to astronomy and the broader sciences. . . . The Sky Is for Everyone is a valuable read for astronomers and those interested in the status of women in science, but also for department heads and policymakers who should take note of how institutional barriers can be broken down and accommodations made to improve the astronomy community."---Joanna Behrman, Physics Today"[The] essays are universally well written."---H.D. Wong, Choice
£15.29
Princeton University Press A History of Biology
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Compelling. . . . Morange simultaneously manages to present the facts with authority and to challenge the reader to think more deeply about what he writes."---Andrew Saintsing, Integrative and Comparative Biology
£17.09
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Diderot Natural Philosopher
Book SynopsisTrade Review'This is an excellent study which Diderot scholars will not just want to read but to own. It provides a solid platform for further research into Diderot’s scientific world-view and will remain a valuable resource for years to come.'Modern Language Review'Since Ballstadt is also a scrupulous recorder of Diderot’s own words, many of the chapters offer useful potted summaries of Diderot’s writings. These summaries also situate Diderot’s texts alongside the relevant books, personages and intellectual debates that informed his work, and from this perspective too the book can be recommended as a largely accurate and well-researched introduction to Diderot’s scientific ideas.'British Journal of the History of Science, Volume 43/2'Divided into chapters on mathematics, experimental physics, chemistry, natural history and medicine, this book documents and analyzes Diderot’s scientific thought. By a happy coincidence this order reflects not only a progression from abstraction to particularity, but also the development of Diderot’s interest in science.'New Perspectives on the Eighteenth CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Mathematics2. Experimental physics3. Chemistry4. Natural history5. MedicineConclusionAppendix: chronological list of Diderot works referencedBibliographyIndex
£98.30
Liverpool University Press The Early Britannica The Growth of an
Book SynopsisTrade Review'This collective effort produces extremely useful detail , marking the changing content of successive editions and thus giving clues to what was seen as novel or in need of revision. […] with its painstaking detail and awareness of the Scottish Enlightenment context, The Early Britannica: The growth of an outstanding Encyclopedia provides a valuable basis for future comparative work on the European encyclopedic project.'- Isis'The contributors have conducted an extraordinarily thorough investigation of the Encyclopaedia britannica. [...] They have unearthed valuable information about the editors and contributors to the first three editions and present compelling evidence about the range and treatment of their sources. This volume could greatly contribute to our understanding of the state of knowledge at the end of the eighteenth century.'- Judith Hawley, Royal Holloway, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff LovelandWilliam Smellie’s edition (1768-1771): a modest start, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff LovelandJames Tytler’s edition (1777-1784): a vast expansion and improvement, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, Jeff Loveland and Dennis A. TrinkleColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig and possibly James Tytler’s edition (1788-1797): the attainment of recognition and eminence, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, William E. Morris et alGeorge Gleig’s Supplement to the third edition (1801-1803): learned and combative, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff LovelandEpilogue: the tortoise and the hare: the longevity of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Encyclopédie compared, Frank A. KafkerBibliographyIndex
£98.30
Liverpool University Press Invaluable Trees Cultures of Nature 16601830
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe collection ˝focuses on the actual tree, apprehended in its full materiality˝ in lieu of the metaphorical or symbolic treatment of trees, which sets it apart from earlier works of criticism on trees in the eighteenth century.- ISLEThe plurality of the Enlightenment is a key organizing theme: the editors situate the volume within a growing literature that sees vitalism and sentiment in Enlightenment thought alongside detachment and classification.- Environmental historyTable of ContentsLaura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Giulia Pacini, Introduction: invaluable treesI. Arboreal livesHamish Graham, ‘Alone in the forest’? Trees, charcoal and charcoal burners in eighteenth-century FranceJ. L. Caradonna, Conservationism avant la lettre,? Public essay competitions on forestry and deforestation in eighteenth-century FrancePaula Young Lee, Land, logs and liberty: the Revolutionary expansion of the Muséum d’histoire naturelle during the TerrorPeter Mcphee, ‘Cette anarchie dévastatrice’: the légende noire of the French RevolutionPaul Elliott, Erasmus Darwin’s treesGiulia Pacini, At home with their trees: arboreal beings in the eighteenth-century French imaginaryII. Strategic treesElizabeth Heckendorn Cook, The vocal stump: the politics of tree-felling in Swift’s ‘On cutting down the old thorn at Market Hill’Michael Guenther, Tapping nature’s bounty: science and sugar maples in the age of improvementMeredith Martin, Bourbon renewal at RambouilletSusan Taylor-Leduc, Assessing the value of fruit trees in the marquis de Fontanes’s poem Le VergerElizabeth Hyde, Arboreal negotiations, or William Livingston’s American perspective on the cultural politics of trees in the Atlantic worldLisa Ford, The ‘naturalisation’ of François André Michaux’s North American sylva: patriotism in early American natural historyIII. Arboreal enlightenmentsTom Williamson, The management of trees and woods in eighteenth-century EnglandSteven King, The healing treeNicolle Jordan, ‘I writ these lines on the body of the tree’: Jane Barker’s arboreal poeticsWaltraud Maierhofer, Goethe and forestryPaula R. Backscheider, Disputed value: women and the trees they lovedAaron S. Allen, ‘Fatto di Fiemme’: Stradivari’s violins and the musical trees of the PaneveggioSummariesBibliographyIndex
£98.30
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Penser Iordre naturel 16801810
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Ce genre d’étude, à la croisée de l’histoire littéraire, de la philosophie et de l’histoire des sciences, est à encourager’.- Revue d’histoire des sciencesTable of ContentsNathalie Vuillemin, Présentation généraleAndreas Gipper, L’ordre de la nature dans la physico-théologie européenneAdrien Paschoud, Matérialisme, ordre naturel et imaginaire cosmologique dans L’Homme-plante (1748) de La MettrieCaroline Jacot Grapa, ‘Méfiez-vous de celui qui veut mettre de l’ordre’Vanessa de Senarclens, Le naufrage ou du désordre des émotions esthétiques dans le Salon de 1767 de DiderotClaire Jaquier, Finalités de la nature et poésie descriptiveAurélie Luther, Les discours sur les Alpes au XVIIIe siècle: un ordre géographique nouveau?Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, La fabrique du vivant: procréation artificielle et ordre social dans le roman de la fin du XVIIIe siècleGeneviève Goubier, L’épistémè in ordine de l’abbé SpallanzaniVirginie Pasche, L’ordre naturel selon Sade: la science comme fictionMarc J. Ratcliff, Ordre naturel, désordre culturel? Michel Adanson au laboratoire des motsAdrien Paschoud, ConclusionRésumésBibliographieIndex
£98.30
Liverpool University Press JeanJacques Rousseau and Botany The Salutary
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation La Fabrique de la Modernit233 Scientifique
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘Through its nine splendid contributions (which can be found summarised at the end, alongside a very useful thematic index), the book traces the way in which some key figures of the so-called Scientific Revolution- specifically those related to the anatomical and medical sciences- were transformed into icons of scientific progress. […] Along these lines, the book should not only be of interest to the historian of medicine or science, but also to the general historian, the philosopher of history, and to all those concerned with the practicalities required to give the living conditions of certain individuals the fictional characters of a universal history of glory. […] This is more than a book on eighteenth-century ideas of progress. By focusing on new sources, like obituaries and eulogies, the book also explores the coming into existence of a new historical narrative that goes far beyong the realm of science and medicine’. Medical HistoryTable of ContentsFrédéric Charbonneau, IntroductionHélène Cazes, Réédition et retour au progrès: les Œuvres d’André Vésale (Leyde, Boerhaave et Albinus, 1725), acte de naissance et de renaissance de l’anatomieClaire Crignon, William Harvey: nouveau Démocrite? Les récits de la découverte de la circulation sanguine au XVIIe siècleFrédéric Tinguely, Une épistémologie libertine de la découverte: la chance en progrès chez Cyrano de BergeracJosiane Boulad-Ayoub, La figure de Descartes au XVIIIe siècleJoël Castonguay-Bélanger, Une icône en procès: à propos de quelques résistances tardives à NewtonFrédéric Charbonneau, L’apothéose médicale, de Fontenelle à Vicq d’AzyrCatriona Seth, Esculape-Tronchin: le médecin à la modeSwann Paradis, Buffon et les descriptions animalières: réhabiliter une icône du progrès? Alexandre Wenger, Théophile de Bordeu (1722-1776): histoire et fiction du grand hommeRésumésBibliographieIndex
£98.30
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Madame dArconville Moraliste et Chimiste au Si
Book SynopsisCritical text of Madame d'Arconville, an 18th-century French female scientist and moralist .Trade ReviewReviews ‘Ce volume [...] nous livre avec talent le parcours étonnant d’une savante autodidacte des Lumières hors des chemins battus.’ Huguette Krief Aix Marseille Université, Présidente du CAER 18‘Le parcours d’une savante autodidacte, moraliste et passionnée de chimie, née en 1720 et décédée en 1805, oubliée depuis quelques deux siècles, est justement rappelé à notre souvenir’. L'Actualité ChimiqueTable of ContentsPrincipes d’éditionMarc André Bernier et Marie-Laure Girou Swiderski, Présentation. Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720-1805): récit de soi et discours sur la science au siècle des LumièresI. La moralisteMadame d’Arconville, Textes autobiographiques tirés des Pensées, réflexions et anecdotesMarie-Laure Girou Swiderski, Les Pensées, réflexions et anecdotes de Mme d’Arconville: un projet autarcique? Marc André Bernier, Le sourire de la raison: ironie, art de dire et connaissance de soi chez Madame d’ArconvilleJulie Candler Hayes, Réflexions sur le mariage: Mme d’Arconville et la tradition moralisteII. La chimisteMadame d’Arconville, Extraits de l’Essai pour servir à l’histoire de la putréfactionElisabeth Bardez, Mme d’Arconville a-t-elle sa place dans la chimie du XVIIIe siècle? Margaret Carlyle, Entre le Traité d’ostéologie et les Leçons de chimie: Mme d’Arconville, traductrice des LumièresSarah Benharrech, L’anti-Tournefort, ou la botanique d’une paresseuseAnnexe, Table des matières des Pensées, réflexions et anecdotes
£98.30
Liverpool University Press LElectricit233 m233dicale dans la France des
Book SynopsisA study of the uses of electricity in early-modern therapeutical practice.Table of ContentsPréface, Monique CottretRemerciementsListe des illustrationsListe des abréviationsIntroduction1. Echecs fondateurs2. Le corps sous influence3. La Société royale de médecine et la médicalisation de l’électricité4. Fabriquer un nouveau médicament5. Lutter contre la dégénérescence6. Les coulisses de la philanthropie7. L’expérience du traitement8. Au fil des récits9. Grandeur et décadence d’un charlatan électrique10. Evocations révolutionnairesConclusionBibliographieIndex
£98.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Science in the 20th Century and Beyond
Book Synopsis* Much-needed overview of the history of science from 1900 to the present day. * Emphasises the crucial part that science has played in the bigger picture of twentieth century history, from Einstein s new physics to the Human Genome Project.Trade ReviewWinner of the Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title "Agar has abstracted and made manageable a range of rich and informed analysis. Anyone who thinks seriously about science will find it a very useful source." The Economist "Global in scope and fresh in approach, this monumental history lays out the evolution of science during a tumultuous century." Nature "Truly extraordinary in its depth and breadth, it makes significant contributions to the history of science and more broadly to our understanding of twentieth-century history. It is also remarkable in that, while written primarily with a scholarly audience in mind, it's nevertheless accessible and of interest to a wider audience, and an excellent advertisement for the discipline." British Society for the History of Science "Judging by the majestic scope of Jon Agar’s new volume, we still have fertile big-picture approaches to guide us through the untidily evolving and multiplying plurality of the natural sciences. Generations of students might take great pride in critiquing the book, just as scholars have done for fifty years with Kuhn’s (in)famously challenging The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." Reviews in History "Agar's approach focuses on the relationship of science to external ideas and practices, thus tying it more tightly to broader histories; it also emphasises patterns of discovery over the individual flashes of insight. Both are useful correctives, and scientists, historians and those who aspire to be either will all benefit from them." Prospect - picked for 'What to read this summer' "A masterful, yet eminently readable, synthesis, which is unquestionably an essential addition to the library of historians of science. I suggest it would also be of wider relevance to teachers of A-level science, giving us a little of the breadth occasionally." School Science Review "All technology has its genesis, but everyone seems to have been too busy to synthesise the elements and tell the full story. Jon Agar has set this to rights with this book, which will interest the scholar, the historian and the enquiring mind of any discipline." Network Computing "A synthetic history of a subject as big, broad and diverse as twentieth-century science is a major achievement. But Agar has given us something more than that: his book is an innovative model of how one might think about scientific practices at temporal and institutional scales much larger than those to which modern historical writing has become accustomed." Steven Shapin, Harvard University, and author of The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation "Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond is the book historians of modern science have been waiting for. It offers an ambitious yet masterly synthesis of the vast historical literature on twentieth-century and contemporary science. Through the concept of the 'working worlds' of science, it provides a unified and compelling analytical framework within which to interpret and illuminate this ever expanding literature and the development of the sciences from 1900 to the present. Jon Agar is a sure-footed and informative guide over this complex terrain; what results is a clear and comprehensive work of breadth and vision that few other scholars could have produced. Superbly crafted, elegantly written, inventive and thought-provoking, the book makes an absolutely invaluable contribution to the history of science. It will be indispensable to anyone who teaches, researches or is just interested in the history of modern science and the contemporary world." Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester "A fine chronological survey of the multiple worlds in which scientists worked in the twentieth century, responding to their demands by seeking to understand, to manipulate and to transform them." John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology "A tour-de-force, covering a period of over a hundred years in which the growth of science has been exponential, and astonishing in its coverage of the various branches of science and their inosculations. There is no other book with the same range, and command of material and recent scholarship." David Knight, Durham University "Key ideas are articulated and linked in interesting and surprising ways, key contexts described and a few explored in detail, and the demands of these contexts are linked to ideas. This is a trope which offers the prospect of addressing the scale of twentieth-century science and rendering it in exemplary narratives which convey meaning to the reader in the recognisable form of human lives and work." Robert Bud, The Science Museum, LondonTable of Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part 1: Science after 1900 2. New Physics 3. New Sciences of Life 4. New Sciences of the Self Part 2: Sciences in a World of Conflict 5. Science and the First World War 6. Crisis: Quantum Theories and Other Weimar Sciences 7. Science and Imperial Order 8. Expanding Universes: Private Wealth and American Science 9. Revolutions and Materialism 10. Nazi Science 11. Scaling Up, Scaling Down Part 3: Second World War and Cold War 12. Science and the Second World War 13. Trials of Science in the Atomic Age 14. Cold War Spaces 15. Cold War Sciences (1): Sciences from the Working World of Atomic Projects 16. Cold War Sciences (2): Sciences from Information Systems Part 4: Sciences of Our World 17. Transition: Sea Change in the Long Sixties 18. Networks 19. Connecting Ends Part 5: Conclusions 20. Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Fat
Book Synopsisfascinating new book on obesity which charts its cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day very engaging and on a very topical subject - this book should attract lots of review coverage and a trade audience Sander L.Trade Review"Gilman's work is absorbing and witty. It is addictive to read his critical observations on areas including childhood obesity, the growth of obesity in modern China and media coverage of the topic. And this, er, slim book will certainly appeal to all of us who want to understand a little more about the cultural and historical aspects and attitudes to obesity." Tribune "This book will be useful to students of culture and social identity, concentrating as it does on the historical debates surrounding obesity." Times Higher Education "[Fat] offers an engaging and suggestive reading with which all historians of fat, food, and modern dietary regimes will want to engage." H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online "Sander Gilman makes a nuanced and richly documented argument about the historical, cultural, and scientific contingency of concepts such as 'fat', 'obesity', and 'health'. This book is a powerful demonstration of how moralistic prejudices influence public health discourse, and our ideas of what constitutes diseases and epidemics. It is an invaluable contribution to the contemporary interdisciplinary critique of our moral panic over fat." Paul Campos, University of Colorado "In Fat, Sander Gilman artfully skewers the cultural tropes and myths surrounding one of the leading moral panics of our time – America's so-called obesity epidemic. Gilman unearths the hidden agendas and historical precedents that allow for our growing weight to be labelled as a deadly disease. Through his wit and erudition, Fat is an invaluable perspective for anyone wanting a more nuanced perspective about health, culture, and society"” Eric Oliver, University of Chicago, author of Fat PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Some Weighty Thoughts on Dieting and Epidemics. 1) Epidemic Obesity. 2) Childhood Obesity. 3) The Stigma of Obesity. 4) Obesity as an Ethnic Problem. 5) Regions of Fat. 6) Chinese Obesity. Conclusion: “Globesity” and Its Odd History. Supplemental Readings.
£999.99
John Wiley & Sons J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Resea
Book SynopsisThe intriguing life of J.B. Collip, whose restless drive fuelled his pioneering studies in endocrinology and sustained a successful research enterprise through the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"A pleasure to read. Li goes beyond biographical anecdotes and offers a significant contribution to medical research in Canada, and fills an egregious gap in historiographical scholarship. In retracing Collip's career, she aptly demonstrates that he contributed not only to the training of his first medical science researchers and to the development of laboratory research, but also actively participated in the institutionalizing process of scientific research in Canada." Denis Goulet, Departement des sciences humaines, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres
£66.50
John Wiley & Sons Surveyors of Empire Samuel Holland J.F.W. Des
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work on the British mapping of the Atlantic world.Trade Review"Packed with often-overlooked information, well written, replete with relevant illustrations." John Lyman Book Award jury member "Ambitious topic and research that went into the study of coastal exploration. Well-written, insightful, I could go on..." John Lyman Book Award jury member "Packed with often-overlooked information, well written, replete with relevant illustrations." John Lyman Book Award jury member
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University of British Columbia Press Made Modern Science and Technology in Canadian
Book SynopsisThe first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the role of science and technology in shaping Canadians’ experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.Trade ReviewThese are excellent case studies of historical realities that may in some sense be very Canadian, insofar as they touched upon sensitive geopolitical and power relations… They enrich our knowledge about the social function of field science, expertise, science-policy relations, and about Canadian history in ways that would have made Jarrell proud. -- Sverker Sörlin, professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm * Scientia Canadensis - Roundtable Review *The coherence of such awide-ranging collection is achieved because ‘modernity’ within Canada – as expressed alongside the formation and definition of the idea of ‘Canadian,’ the legacies of imperialism within rational, Liberal, individualist Western nationhood, and of imperial/territorial conflict – remains central throughout. -- Karen Sayer, Professor and Director of History, Leeds University * NiCHE *The editors of this splendid collection argue, in a sly nod to Bruno Latour, that ‘We’ve always been modern,’ or at least liked to describe ourselves as such… Bocking’s dense and accomplished piece on "landscapes of science" is alone worth the price of admission. -- Elsbeth Heaman, associate professor, McGill University * Scientia Canadensis - Roundtable Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Science, Technology, and the Modern in Canada / Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina AdcockPart 1: Bodies1 Civilizing the Natives: Richard King and His Ethnographic Writings on Indigenous Northerners / Efram Sera-Shriar2 Scientist Tourist Sportsman Spy: Boundary-Work and the Putnam Eastern Arctic Expeditions / Tina Adcock3 Nature’s Tonic: Electric Medicine in Urban Canada, 1880–1920 / Dorotea Gucciardo4 Cosmic Moderns: Re-Enchanting the Body in Canada’s Atomic Age, 1931–51 / Beth A. RobertsonPart 2: Technologies5 The Second Industrial Revolution in Canadian History / James Hull6 Mysteries of the New Phone Explained: Introducing Dial Telephones and Automatic Service to Bell Canada Subscribers in the 1920s / Jan Hadlaw7 Small Science: Trained Acquaintance and the One-Man Research Team / David Theodore8 Paris–Montreal–Babylon: The Modernist Genealogies of Gerald Bull / Edward Jones-Imhotep9 Percy Schmeiser, Roundup Ready® Canola, and Canadian Agricultural Modernity / Eda KranakisPart 3: Environments10 Landscapes of Science in Canada: Modernity and Disruption / Stephen Bocking11 “For Canada and for Science”: Transnational Modernity and the Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1918 / Andrew Stuhl12 North Stars and Sun Destinations: Time, Space, and Nation at Trans Canada Air Lines/Air Canada, 1947–70 / Blair Stein13 Negotiating High Modernism: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project / Daniel MacfarlaneEpilogue: Canadian Modernity as an Icon of the Anthropocene / Dolly JørgensenIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Made Modern
Book SynopsisScience and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History draws together leading scholars from a wide range of fields to enrich our understanding of history inside and outside Canada's borders. The book's chapters examine how science and technology have allowed Canadians to imagine and reinvent themselves as modern. Focusing on topics including exploration, scientific rationality, the occult, medical instruments, patents, communication, and infrastructure, the contributors situate Canadian scientific and technological developments within larger national and transnational contexts.The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the place of science and technology in shaping Canadians' experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.Trade ReviewThese are excellent case studies of historical realities that may in some sense be very Canadian, insofar as they touched upon sensitive geopolitical and power relations… They enrich our knowledge about the social function of field science, expertise, science-policy relations, and about Canadian history in ways that would have made Jarrell proud. -- Sverker Sörlin, professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm * Scientia Canadensis - Roundtable Review *The coherence of such awide-ranging collection is achieved because ‘modernity’ within Canada – as expressed alongside the formation and definition of the idea of ‘Canadian,’ the legacies of imperialism within rational, Liberal, individualist Western nationhood, and of imperial/territorial conflict – remains central throughout. -- Karen Sayer, Professor and Director of History, Leeds University * NiCHE *The editors of this splendid collection argue, in a sly nod to Bruno Latour, that ‘We’ve always been modern,’ or at least liked to describe ourselves as such… Bocking’s dense and accomplished piece on "landscapes of science" is alone worth the price of admission. -- Elsbeth Heaman, associate professor, McGill University * Scientia Canadensis - Roundtable Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Science, Technology, and the Modern in Canada / Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina AdcockPart 1: Bodies1 Civilizing the Natives: Richard King and His Ethnographic Writings on Indigenous Northerners / Efram Sera-Shriar2 Scientist Tourist Sportsman Spy: Boundary-Work and the Putnam Eastern Arctic Expeditions / Tina Adcock3 Nature’s Tonic: Electric Medicine in Urban Canada, 1880–1920 / Dorotea Gucciardo4 Cosmic Moderns: Re-Enchanting the Body in Canada’s Atomic Age, 1931–51 / Beth A. RobertsonPart 2: Technologies5 The Second Industrial Revolution in Canadian History / James Hull6 Mysteries of the New Phone Explained: Introducing Dial Telephones and Automatic Service to Bell Canada Subscribers in the 1920s / Jan Hadlaw7 Small Science: Trained Acquaintance and the One-Man Research Team / David Theodore8 Paris–Montreal–Babylon: The Modernist Genealogies of Gerald Bull / Edward Jones-Imhotep9 Percy Schmeiser, Roundup Ready® Canola, and Canadian Agricultural Modernity / Eda KranakisPart 3: Environments10 Landscapes of Science in Canada: Modernity and Disruption / Stephen Bocking11 “For Canada and for Science”: Transnational Modernity and the Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1918 / Andrew Stuhl12 North Stars and Sun Destinations: Time, Space, and Nation at Trans Canada Air Lines/Air Canada, 1947–70 / Blair Stein13 Negotiating High Modernism: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project / Daniel MacfarlaneEpilogue: Canadian Modernity as an Icon of the Anthropocene / Dolly JørgensenIndex
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Cornell University Press Appropriating the Weather Vilhelm Bjerknes and
Book SynopsisFriedman analyzes the revolution in the theory and practice of meteorology initiated by Vilhelm Bjerknes and his...Trade ReviewRobert Marc Friedman has written a lucid and engaging narrative of the career of Vilhelm Bjerknes and his 'Bergen' school of meteorology, originators of the concept of the weather front. Friedman has skillfully woven together early twentieth-century meteorology with contemporary developments in agriculture, fishery, warfare, and communications. The result is a significant contribution to the history of science and will hold the interest of anyone concerned with the role of science in modern society. * American Historical Review *The history of modern meteorology has been shaped by a few brilliant individuals, whose enormous contributions set conditions for permanent progress. Robert Marc Friedman's book is a serious and substantial contribution to the documentation of this history. * American Meteorological Society *In this very thoughtful and extremely well-researched and well-written book, Robert Marc Friedman relates the story of Vilhelm Bjerknes's switch to geophysical studies and his subsequent development of scientific study of the weather into a persuasive new professional discipline. * Isis *
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Cornell University Press When Geologists Were Historians 16651750
Book Synopsis"An essential perspective for those seeking a serious introduction to early geological science and a fundamental point of departure for future research.... No other book has this scope and conceptual focus."—Kenneth L. Taylor, University of...Trade ReviewRappaport has provided a unique look at an important period of time with detailed, multicontinental scholarship.... Anyone who has a deep interest in how the science of geology really came into its own in the late 1600s and early 1700s should look no further than Rappaport's very detailed work. * GSA Today: Journal of the Geological Society of America *
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Cornell University Press The Senses of Modernism
Book SynopsisIn The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's...Trade ReviewDanius's historical analysis of the complex relationship of technology to literary/aesthetic modernism (emphasizing the years 1880-1930) provides a new and challenging view of high classical modernism.... Danius bases her observations and conclusions on a solid survey of past critical thought; 37 pages of detailed notes and a 13-page index make the study especially useful for advanced scholars. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *In this book, Sara Danius examines the ways that new technologies influenced the arts of classic modernism from 1880 to 1930, with a concentration on high modernism, in the 1920s.... I found the book intriguing and fascinating. It is certainly an important contribution to our understanding of the intersection of perception and technology, and provides important insights about the role that technology can play in the arts. -- George K. Shortess, Lehigh University * Leonardo *The central aim of this accomplished and lucid study is to dispel the notion that perception in modernist texts can be seen as a flight from the world of modernity and technology into subjectivity and particularity.... Danius's assertion that the senses become technologically mediated in modernity is supported by discussions of visual theory as it is implicit in various optical devices, in Sander's photo-archive, Marey's work, and the conceptualization of cinema in Vertov and others. -- Tim Armstrong, University of London * Modernism/modernity *In her persuasive, well-written exploration of technology's essential yet underestimated role in high modernism, Danius establishes a vivid picture of the modernist landscape as one where technologically enhanced means of perception became a prominent component of the aesthetic discourse.... Danius's ability to utilize a wide body of theory and to draw adeptly on examples from film, painting, and photography to support her close readings of three pioneering modernist novels makes this a provocative, rewarding study from a variety of vantage points. -- Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College * Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature *Overall, this is a challenging and rewarding analysis by a literary scholar who is deeply immersed in the aesthetic categories of High Modernism. It may be well to note that she is interested in technologies such as X-rays not as artifacts but insofar as they affect the perceptual apparatus of the modern subject. -- Barry Katz, California College of the Arts * Technology and Culture *
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Cornell University Press Standards and Their Stories How Quantifying
Book SynopsisStandardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining...Trade Review"Standards and Their Stories is an important, well-written, and extraordinarily provocative examination of a part of the world usually hidden from any sort of public view. The authors show how much of what we take for granted is the result of negotiation, compromise, and occasionally coercion. They do so by inventing a suite of new and innovative research methods. As a result, this book is likely to become not only 'the standard' for studies of this sort but also the starting point for new ways of investigating sociotechnical processes."-Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University "I sat down to read the book, read the first page, and paused while my face broke into a smile and a comfortable warm feeling came over my body. Yup, this was going to be a great book. Further reading confirmed the impression. Standards rule our lives. Yeah, standards, that dull, frustrating, topic studied by 'The Society of People Interested in Boring Things.' But this book proves that far from being dull, the stories behind standards are interesting, insightful, and revealing of the workings of bureaucracy. Standards are essential for different stuff made by different companies in different countries to work well together. Whether it is bananas or chocolate, application forms for terrorist training, or the sizes of people's rear ends (critical for airline seats), standards are essential part of life today (all these are covered in the book). This engaging book serves several purposes. It explains much of the history, rationale, and politics of standards. It shows why they have huge social impact, far beyond what most of us realize, often far beyond what was intended. And best of all, it is fun to read."-Don Norman, Northwestern University, author of The Design of Future Things
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Cornell University Press The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural
Book SynopsisIn his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout he recountsand in some instances solvesmysteries of the natural world which have puzzled scientists for centuries.Heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings, the book presents astounding tales from across the rich folklore of animals: a learned pig more admired than Sir Isaac Newton by the English public, an elephant that Lord Byron wanted to employ as his butler, a dancing horse whose skills in mathematics were praised by William Shakespeare, and, of course, the extraordinary creature known as the Feejee Mermaid. This object became the foremost curiosity of London in the 1820s and later in the century toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum. Bearing a striking resemblance to a wizened and misshapen monkey with a fishtail, the mermaid was nonetheless proclaimed a genuine specimen Trade ReviewBondeson has a keen eye for the recreational value of much of the material he discusses. The reader will find Bondeson's wit and style almost as engaging as British and American Victorians must have found a good gawk at Jumbo the elephant. * Isis *Bondeson has written ten fascinating histories of various exceptional creatures, some real (a dancing horse and a learned pig), some hoaxes (like the mermaid of the title), some mythical ('vegetable' sheep that grow on a stalk and showers of worms and frogs). * Ottawa Citizen *Jan Bondeson shares the impresario's glee in whipping off the handkerchief or whipcracking up another curtain on another monster, relishing the absurdity and the fun of it all. -- Marina Warner * Times Literary Supplement *This is a wonderful book about a wonderful subject—that is, the marvels of nature, or rather, the marvels of the imagination as it explores the world of nature. * Virginia Quarterly Review *With his historian's nose for authenticity and fascination with the bizarre, Bondeson has produced a book that manages to entertain, inform and occasionally repel. It is an intriguing study not only of animals but also of human curiosity, credulity, ambition, and greed. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsA Prelude1. The Dancing Horse2. Lament of the Learned Pig3. The Feejee Mermaid4. Obituary of an Elephant5. Jumbo, King of Elephants6. Animals on Trial7. The Riddle of the Basilisk8. Spontaneous Generation9. Odd Showers10. Toad in the HoleSources
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Cornell University Press Machines as the Measure of Men
Book SynopsisOver the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority shaped their...Trade ReviewProvocative and fascinating.... Adas's deft use of quotation gives the missionaries, travelers, explorers, administrators, and teachers their authentic voices. He provides a wealth of documentation. One learns things worth knowing on every page.... One leaves Machines as the Measure of Men persuaded by its essential analysis: that mastery of nature lay at the heart of Europe's comparison of itself to others. As an intellectual history of French and British assessments of Africa, China, and India, the book is wonderfully informative and nuanced. It will alter the debate about the history of Europe's relationship to the rest of the world. * New York Times Book Review *The terrain of Adas's magnificent book is vast. He starts with the first encounters of intrepid European explorers in the seventeenth century and ends with the seeds of doubt which the Great War in Europe sowed in the western civilizing process.... A vast range of sources are cited. Alternatives to the predominant ideology of western scientific and technological progress are explored, and the potential for diffusion of science and technology into different third world societies is also illuminated. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Remarkable' is an adjective that is most appropriate for this study. Broad in interpretation, rich in detail, and supported by a wealth of information, Michael Adas's work will command the attention of every scholar of modern imperialism, every student of the broad subject of 'technology.'... Adas offers an example of popular history at its very best, which is cultural history exquisitely constructed of detailed research, a well-designed overarching theme, and nicely polished prose.... It will long be pivotal in all discussions that revolve around the technology and culture of modern European expansion. In sum, this is a most compelling, splendid book. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the 2014 EditionIntroductionPart I. Before the Industrial RevolutionChapter 1. First Encounters: Impressions of Material Culture in an Age of ExplorationTechnology—Perceptions of Backwardness: Qualified Praise"Natural Philosophy"—Illiteracy and Faulty CalendarsScientific and Technological Convergence and the First Hierarchies of HumankindChapter 2. The Ascendancy of Science: Shifting Views of Non-Western Peoples in the Era of the EnlightenmentModel of Clay: The Rise and Decline of Sinophilism in Enlightenment ThoughtAncient Glories, Modern Ruins: The Orientalist Discover of Indian LearningAfrican Achievement and the Debate over the Abolition of the Slave TradeScientific Gauges and the Spirit of the TimesPart II. The Age of IndustrializationChapter 3. Global Hegemony and the Rise of Technology as the Main Measure of Human AchievementAfrica: Primitive Tools and the Savage MindIndia: The Retreat of Orienta1ismChina: Despotism and DeclineMateria1 Mastery as a Prerequisite of Civilized LifeChapter 4. Attributes of the Dominant: Scientific and Technological Foundations of the Civilizing MissionPerceptions of Man and Nature as Gauges of Western Uniqueness and SuperiorityThe Machine as CivilizerDisplacement and Revolution: Marx on the Impact of Machines in AsiaTime, Work, and DisciplineSpace, Accuracy, and UniformityWorlds Apart: The Case of Ye Ming-chenChapter 5. The Limits of Diffusion: Science and Technology in the Debate over the African and Asian Capacity for AcculturationThe First Generations of ImproversThe Search for Scientific and Technological Proofs of Racial InequalityQualifying the Civilizing Mission: Racists versus Improvers at the Tum of the CenturyMissing the Main Point: Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Racist ThoughtPart III. The Twentieth CenturyChapter 6. The Great War and the Assault on Scientific and Technological Measures of Human WorthThe Specter of Asia IndustrializedTrench Warfare and the Crisis of Western CivilizationChallenges to the Civilizing Mission and the Search for Alternative Measures of Human WorthEpilogue: Modernization Theory and the Revival of the Technological StandardIndex
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Cornell University Press Physiologia
Book SynopsisSixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged.Trade ReviewThis rangy and precise book deserves to be read even by those historians who think they are bored with Descartes. While offering surprising and detailed readings of bewildering texts like the Description of the Human Body, Des Chene constructs a powerful, sad narrative of the Cartesian disenchantment of the body. Along the way he also delivers provocative views on topics as various as teleology, the role of illustrations in the history of mechanism, theories of the sexual differentiation of the foetus, and problems of simulation in scientific method. -- Paula Gould Chester * British Journal for the History of Science *A very impressive body of research.... Des Chene provides much thought-provoking discussion.... For the growing number of scholars with a serious interest in late scholasticism and its relationship to early modern philosophy, the book should be very stimulating and a rich source of information. * Philosophical Review *Des Chene successfully shows that these philosophers were fully aware of the problems in Aristotle's notion of the soul. He also shows that the questions fundamental to the Aristotelian psychology were not so much answered by Descartes and his followers as mooted. -- Peter Lautner * Bryn Mawr Review *
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Cornell University Press The Senses of Modernism
Book SynopsisIn The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann''s The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust''s Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce''s Ulysses as narratives of the sweeping changes that affected high and low culture in the age of technological reproduction. In her discussion of the years from 1880 to 1930, Danius proposes that the high-modernist aesthetic is inseparable from a technologically mediated crisis of the senses. She reveals the ways in which categories of perceiving and knowing are realigned when technological devices are capable of reproducing sense data. Sparked by innovations such as chronophotography, phonography, radiography, cinematography, and technologies of speed, this sudden shift in perceptual abilities had an effect on all arts of the time.Danius explores how perception, notably sight and hearing, is staged in the three most significant modern nTrade ReviewDanius's historical analysis of the complex relationship of technology to literary/aesthetic modernism (emphasizing the years 1880-1930) provides a new and challenging view of high classical modernism.... Danius bases her observations and conclusions on a solid survey of past critical thought; 37 pages of detailed notes and a 13-page index make the study especially useful for advanced scholars. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *In this book, Sara Danius examines the ways that new technologies influenced the arts of classic modernism from 1880 to 1930, with a concentration on high modernism, in the 1920s.... I found the book intriguing and fascinating. It is certainly an important contribution to our understanding of the intersection of perception and technology, and provides important insights about the role that technology can play in the arts. -- George K. Shortess, Lehigh University * Leonardo *The central aim of this accomplished and lucid study is to dispel the notion that perception in modernist texts can be seen as a flight from the world of modernity and technology into subjectivity and particularity.... Danius's assertion that the senses become technologically mediated in modernity is supported by discussions of visual theory as it is implicit in various optical devices, in Sander's photo-archive, Marey's work, and the conceptualization of cinema in Vertov and others. -- Tim Armstrong, University of London * Modernism/modernity *In her persuasive, well-written exploration of technology's essential yet underestimated role in high modernism, Danius establishes a vivid picture of the modernist landscape as one where technologically enhanced means of perception became a prominent component of the aesthetic discourse.... Danius's ability to utilize a wide body of theory and to draw adeptly on examples from film, painting, and photography to support her close readings of three pioneering modernist novels makes this a provocative, rewarding study from a variety of vantage points. -- Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College * Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature *Overall, this is a challenging and rewarding analysis by a literary scholar who is deeply immersed in the aesthetic categories of High Modernism. It may be well to note that she is interested in technologies such as X-rays not as artifacts but insofar as they affect the perceptual apparatus of the modern subject. -- Barry Katz, California College of the Arts * Technology and Culture *
£26.59
Cornell University Press Dark Vanishings
Book SynopsisBrantlinger here examines the commonly held 19th-century view that all "primitive" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction.Trade ReviewDark Vanishings should interest historians of ethnology and of cultural anthropology in general.... Of particular importance is the question of whether the notion of race, however defined, forged Europeans into racists.... The bibliography has value for historians of biology, of economics, and of English literature, not the sort of bedfellows one might have expected before reading Dark Vanishings. Sociologists of science, sure to find in Brantlinger's narrative a sociology of racism in the guise of science, round out the group of scholars who will benefit from reading Dark Vanishings. * Isis *Patrick Brantlinger's argument in Dark Vanishings is straightforward: from 1830 onwards, economists, pioneering anthropologists, natural scientists and literary writers believed that 'primitive' peoples were doomed to extinction.... Belief in the inevitability of the natives' fall assuaged guilt about the depopulating effects of colonialism.... A significant achievement in Dark Vanishings is Brantlinger's partial, conditional rehabilitation of the race theorists, Robert Knox and Alfred Wallace. Brantlinger shows that, although frequently ludicrous and ill-willed, such writers' works need to read with care, as they influenced still-extant concepts about First World superiority. * Times Literary Supplement *The 'dark vanishings' of Patrick Brantlinger's most recent book are the presumed extinctions, especially self-extinguishings, of people not deemed to be, or not deemed to be capable of being, civilized, of those who cannot participate in Western Progress. Dark Vanishings is obviously required reading for anyone interested in Victorian studies of race and empire. * English Literature in Transition *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Aboriginal Matters 2. Pre-Darwinian Theories on the Extinction of Primitive Races 3. Vanishing Americans 4. Humanitarian Causes: Antislavery and Saving Aboriginals 5. The Irish Famine 6. The Dusk of the Dreamtime 7. Islands of Death and the Devil 8. Darwin and After 9. Conclusion: White TwilightsNotes Works Cited Index
£25.64
Cornell University Press Monstrous BodiesPolitical Monstrosities in Early
Book SynopsisMulti-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated book features new links between the political and the monstrous in the early modern period. Emphasizing the importance of the visual in the culture of the monstrous...Trade Review"Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe is more than just a further contribution to the growing historiographical monster industry, because it is a remarkable combination of fine scholarship and intellectual passion. Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes are to be commended for bringing together essays that admirably enrich our understanding of how monsters are represented in political, medical, and literary contexts. This ambitious book is a significant contribution to early modern social and cultural history."—Michael Hagner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland"There can be few figures more marginal than those objects of fear, wonder, fascination, awe, or trepidation consigned to the category of the monstrous. The history of the monster is also the history of the darker side of the understanding of what it might mean to be fully human. As the editors of this fascinating collection of essays observe, 'monsters blur boundaries—transgressing, violating, polluting, and mixing what ought to be kept apart.' They act as a kind of litmus test of normality. Here, then, are eight timely, thoughtful, and meticulously argued essays, lavishly illustrated, each of which helps us to understand how the age that gave us Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Pascal, and Rousseau also gave us the headless monsters of the English Revolution, the monsters of the apocalypse, the strange births associated with the German Reformation, and the creatures to be found in Montaigne or Rabelais."—Jonathan Sawday, cultural historian, author of The Body Emblazoned, and Professor of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow"Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe focuses attention on an exquisitely (and variously) specified form of demonization, the discourse of monstrosity in an era before its containment by teratology and, eventually, genetic profiling and plastic surgery. An era of revolutions, theological as well as politic, the period had considerable and largely unpleasant use for the rhetoric, the imagery, and even the simulacra of monstrosity. It is a particular comfort, towards the end of the book, to be shown the period's own deconstructions and rejections of this heated discourse in the works of Rabelais and Montaigne. The authors collected here aim to perform a similar unwinding of the representational abuse to which the early modern monster lent itself so readily in the political arena."—Mary Baine Campbell, author of Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe
£28.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Meteorology in America 18001870
Book SynopsisBut the gains had been significant, including advances in natural history and medical geography, and in understanding the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere.Trade ReviewDetailed and handsomely illustrated, this work is an original contribution to the history of 19th-century science. American Historical Review It is surprising that the history of meteorology in the United States has waited so long for a serious historical analysis... American historians, especially those with little previous understanding of American science, need to read this book. -- Gregory A. Good Journal of American History Fleming's important contribution to our understanding of science during its formative period in America is to show the extent to which meteorology was shaped by cultural values. -- Bruce Sinclair Science Fleming's well-documented book is based on an impressive list of primary sources. Particularly useful are the numerous maps, illustrations, and graphic representations that document the constructs of data and theory as these changed over time. -- Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Journal of the Early Republic A welcome addition that fills one of the major gaps in the existing literature on the history of meteorology. -- Stanley David Gedzelman American Scientist
£27.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Creating the American Junkie
Book SynopsisBy 1940, Acker concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s prompted changes in the understanding of addiction-and in public policy.Trade ReviewA well-written and thoughtful book... Acker presents a fascinating account of how addicts' negative image came to dominate public and official perceptions, as well as how it forced some users into the mold. Her careful analysis of research findings will make this book of interest to historians, drug-abuse workers, and anyone else who wants to examine the origins of American drug policy. -- David F. Musto, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine Fascinating... A compelling journey through drug-addiction history... This book lays a firm foundation for re-evaluating our approach to the study of addiction. -- George F. Koob Nature Medicine Draws on familiar themes to create a novel and compelling portrait of the times. -- Jim Baumohl Journal of American History This book makes its most original contribution by probing the intersecting interests of professionals and policy makers who believed in managing the drug problem through a self-conscious combination of legal control and scientific knowledge... Acker's history of drug policy and science during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century illustrates the recent guise of an old social divide between deserving and undeserving Americans. -- Ellen Herman American Historical Review A thorough and compelling survey. -- Mike Jay Medical History A fine book, convincingly arguing its central points, and in the process concisely making a significant original contribution to an intensely studied field. -- Nicolas Rasmussen Metascience A critical text for scholars and policy makers alike that underscores the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to developing anything approaching an accurate model of substance-dependence and humane policies for dealing with people dependent on opiates. -- Robin Pappas Metapsychology While harm reduction supporters will find this book validating, readers do not need to subscribe to this particular drug policy alternative to find Dr. Acker's book to be filled with fascinating stories about the people and the ideas which have shaped today's ptiched battles in the drug policy wars. -- Robert L. DuPont, M.D. JAMA 2003 Provides an excellent foundation for understanding not only the prevailing attitudes of the day but also the influence of those attitudes on current policy and theories of addiction. -- Chris Stewart Criminal Justice Review 2005Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1 Heroin Addiction and Urban Vice Reform 2 The Opportunistic Approach 3 The Technological Fix: The Search for a Nonaddicting Analgesic 4 Constructing the Addict Career 5 The Junkie as Psychopath 6 Healing Vision and Bureaucratic Reality 7 The Addict in the Social Body Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index
£42.75
Johns Hopkins University Press On the Pill
Book SynopsisHer study helps us not only to understand the contraceptive revolution as such but to appreciate the misinterpretations that surround it.Trade ReviewThis is an exemplary study of how the nation which first had access to oral contraceptives first came to terms with their advantages, and their drawbacks. -- Jon Turney Times Literary Supplement Intelligent and well-structured... An admirable exercise in social history. -- Richard Davenport-Hines Nature A particularly fascinating issue, trim and focused, sophisticated and helpful, fresh and very interesting. -- Rickie Solinger American Historical Review In every carefully organized, lucidly written chapter Watkins provides surprising corrections to conventional thinking about the new birth control method... One especially noteworthy theme is the book's exploration of the politics of the pill, including Planned Parenthood [Federation] of America's concerted efforts to rebut critics, federal officials' dramatically shifting positions from the 1950s to the 1970s on birth control, population control and family planning, and pill-induced tensions among feminists. -- Janet Farrell Brodie Journal of American History Any study of the development of the birth-control pill will be centrally concerned with the expansion of women's reproductive choices. But, as this book so clearly demonstrates, it involves other questions too. In part, it is about the risks that come with the ingestion of oral contraception. It is about the relationship between women and doctors, between women and their partners and betwen science, medicine and the media. Not least, it is about how women have responded differently to this intervention into their bodies. Underpinned by some excellent archival material, interviews with key individuals and an extensive use of the newspapers, magazines and medical journals of the time, this study is particularly strong in its discussion of concerns over the safety of the Pill... This is not the only area of interest within this valuable book. Anyone concerned with the debate over scientific advance and medical authority will find this a highly stimulating study... For her, the Pill brought the possibility of voluntary pregnancy, and feminist (and other) critics of its medical effects and social repercussions will need to engage carefully with her arguments if this important debate is to be taken to a new level. -- Martin Durham Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Genesis of the Pill Chapter 2: Physicians, Patients, and the New Oral Contraceptives Chapter 3: Sex, Population, and the Pill Chapter 4: Debating the Safety of the Pill Chapter 5: Oral Contraceptives and Informed Consent Chapter 6: Conclusion Notes Bibliographical Essay Index
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Making Medicine Scientific
Book SynopsisRomano's detailed portrayal reveals a fascinating figure who embodied the untidy nature of the Victorian age's shift from an intellectual system rooted in religion to one based on science.Trade ReviewAn important and highly readable life of John Burdon Sanderson... [including an] exquisitely textured account of his projects... Romano's beautifully written biography deftly integrates Burdon Sanderson and his chosen intellectual milieu. -- E. A. Heaman Canadian Bulletin of Medical History A full-length study of this influential figure in British medical science has finally appeared... Libraries will surely want to add it to their holdings. -- L. Margaret Barnett, PhD Journal of the American Medical Association Romano has performed a brilliant service for medical historians... a useful entry in the canon of science and public health, this little book is an antidote to the hubris of recent claims of accomplishment. Choice 2003 Making Medicine Scientific is a carefully researched and written work... It enlares our view of the power-struggle for autonomy over medicine by both doctors at the bedside and scientists in the laboratory and extends the picture of the relationship between science and medicine in the late nineteenth century. -- Stephanie Snow Institute of Historical ResearchTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: From Evangelical to Medical Officer of Health ONE: Choosing Medicine TWO: Medical Officer of Health PART II: Making a Career in Medical Research THREE: Before the Germ Theory: The Cattle Plague of 1865-1866 and the State Support of Pathology FOUR: From Clinician-Researcher to Professional Physiologist: Making the Pulse Visible FIVE: Becoming a Research Pathologist: The Rise of Laboratory Medicine in Britain SIX: Focusing on Physiology: Capturing the Venus's-Flytrap's Electrical Activity PART II: The Medical Sciences: Critics and Allies SEVEN: Physicians, Anti vivisectionists, and the Failure of the Oxford School of Physiology EIGHT: A Corner Turned? Experimental Medicine in Late Victorian Britain List of Abbreviations Appendix: Researchers Associated with Burdon Sanderson in Britain Notes Index
£37.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Bioethics in America Origins and Cultural
Book SynopsisThat is, the public was reassured by bioethical oversight of biomedicine; in reality, however, bioethicists belonged to the same mainstream that produced the doctors and researchers whom the bioethicists were guiding.Trade ReviewUltimately, the innovations and court decisions most associated with bioethics, Stevens shows, were less rooted in concern about the abuse of patients than in researchers' and biomedical institutions' desires for the freedom to pursue new medical technologies and their need for protection from legal liability. Bioethics has served more as a 'midwife' to new medical research and technologies than as a critic. These findings should concern all of us. Steven's critical analysis of bioethics is a valuable revision. -- Leslie J. Reagan American Historical Review An interesting and provocative book, well worth reading for the issues it raises as well as for the historical analysis of the bioethics movement. -- Audrey K. Gordon Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Bioethics in America merits our attention. It will encourage additional reflection on the sources and meaning of the rise of this new profession dedicated to moral arbitration. -- Raymond DeVries Journal of American History Stevens has a pithy prose style and a healthy willingness to challenge received wisdom. -- Robert Baker, Ph.D Journal of the History of Medicine A major contribution to the history of bioethics. ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Prologue The Tradition of AmbivalenceChapter One The Culture of Post-atomic AmbivalenceChapter Two "Leaders of Leaders": The Hastings Center, 1969 to the PresentChapter Three Redefining Death in America, 1968Chapter Four "Sleeping Beauty": Karen Ann Quinlan and the Rise of Bioethics in AmericaEpilogue Conclusion and Outlook
£24.75
Johns Hopkins University Press New York Subways An Illustrated History of New
Book SynopsisSubway and train enthusiasts, students of New York City history, and specialists in the history of technology will appreciate this updated and authoritative reference work about one of the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements.Trade ReviewFrom Reviews of our Previous Edition: The humble New York subway car has its fans, as Gene Sansone demonstrates in his exhaustive survey. Featuring such curios as a private subway car built in 1904 for the director of the subway, his work also provides useful insights into such imponderables as why the cars on the F line are longer than those on, say, the 1 and 9 lines. -- Leo Carey New Yorker Offers the reader a comprehensive, accurate, well-illustrated, highly documented catalog of the nearly 5,800 current New York City subway cars, along with the many thousands of long-gone cars. Every subway student or enthusiast will return to it often to browse the pages or to research a specific car series. It is an indispensable companion to prior or future general histories of one of the world's greatest people movers. -- Richard L. Allman Railroad History Subway train enthusiasts, students of New York City history, and specialists in the history of technology will appreciate this reference on the city's subway system. Book News 2004 Sansone clearly knows his subject inside and out, and presents it in a fascinating, entertaining manner. -- Nate MacMaster Railfan and Railroad 2005 Sansone comprehensively examines more than 5,000 New York City subway cars... The book can be enjoyed by readers interested in transit car history while subway enthusiasts will appreciate the ease with which specific cars can be researched. Choice 2005 Well organized and provides an abundance of data in both written and pictorial form. -- Efstathios I. Pappas Industrial Archaeology 2004 The product of years of meticulous research... Subway and train enthusiasts, students of New York City history, and specialists in the history of technology will appreciate this updated and authoritative reference work. NJ News 2010
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Johns Hopkins University Press Emerging Illnesses and Society Negotiating the
Book SynopsisTelford III, Harvard School of Public Health; Christian Warren, New York Academy of Medicine.Trade ReviewA valuable book on a topic that I have not see covered elsewhere. The examples are well thought out and cover a broad range of topics. Doody's Book Review Service Most useful for the collections of hospitals and college and university libraries supporting undergraduate and graduate programs in allied health, medicine, nursing and public health, although public librarians may also wish to add this work for its depth of background on and breadth of discussion of an often tangled subject. E-Streams 2005 Scholarly and well-written... should be of great interest to both historians and modern researchers interested in the overlap between social processes and public health, and is deserving of critical attention. Medical History 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Introduction / Emerging Illness as Social ProcessPart I: Making Illnesses VisibleChapter 2. The Combined Efforts of Community and Science / American Culture, Patient Activism, and the Multiple Sclerosis Movement in the United StatesChapter 3. Competing Medical Cultures, Patient Support Groups, and the Construction of Tourette SyndromeChapter 4. Democracy, Expertise, and Activism for AIDS TreatmentChapter 5. Communities of Suffering and the InternetChapter 6. Illness Movements and the Medical Classification of Pain and FatigueChapter 7. The Newtown Florist Club and the Quest for Environmental Justice in Gainesville, GeorgiaChapter 8. Occupational Health from Below / The Women Office Workers' Movement and the Hazardous OfficePart II: Institutional Responses to Emerging IllnessesChapter 9. "Always with Us" / Childhood Lead Poisoning as an Emerging IllnessChapter 10. The Cultural Politics of Institutional Responses to Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics / New York City and Lima, PeruChapter 11. Institutional Responses to the Emergence of Lyme Disease and Its Companion Infections in North America / A Public Health PerspectiveChapter 12. The Politics of Institutional Responses / CDC and the Controversy over Maternal and Newborn HIV TestingChapter 13. Emerging Infections and the CDC ResponseChapter 14. Hepatitis C and the News Media / Lessons from AIDSList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Between Human and Machine
Book SynopsisAs a new way to conceptualize the history of computing, this book will be of great interest to historians of science, technology, and culture, as well as computer scientists and theorists. Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before CyberneticsTrade Review[Mindell's] account of this complex story of engineering, people, and organizations-academic, industrial and govenment-is well researched and well told. -- Stuart Bennett International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing 2004 While one might think a history of servomechanisms, feedback loops, and fire control systems would be of interest only to a narrow audience, one of David A. Mindell's great achievements in this rich and multilayered book is to show the centrality of control systems-the machines (and humans) that control machines-to the history of computing, the history of technology, and indeed to American history in the twentieth century. -- Ross Bassett American Historical Review In contextualizing the theory of cybernetics, Mindell gives engineering back forgotten parts of its history, and shows how important historical circumstances are to technological change... Mindell is scrupulous about providing this historical context; providing biographical insight into the major players in the history; and giving the reader a good sense of what it was like to be a Bell Labs scientist, or an engineer for Sperry. -- Michele Tepper Networker The book is an eye-opener in understanding who our engineering ancestors were and what they did. -- David L. Elliott IEEE Control Systems Magazine 2003 In an exceptionally insightful and lucid account, Mindell shows how engineering cultures emerging in specific institutional contexts profoundly shaped the design of human-machine systems and defined the human operator as part of a larger technological system. -- Slava Gerovitch IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 2004 This is a good and surprising book. It is good in its articulate survey of dynamic man-machine systems in the period from 1916 to 1948; it is surprising in its convincing revision of our picture of the origins of the computer and cybernetics. -- Larry Owens Technology and Culture 2003 The reader who makes the effort to follow Mindell's argument will be rewarded with a fresh insight into the emergence of the digital computer and all that its invention implies. -- Paul E. Ceruzzi Journal of American History 2004 This book is the first major study by a professional historian and as such should help to draw the attention of historians to the embeddedness of feedback control in 20th century technological systems. -- Stuart Bennett International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing 2004 A joy for both engineers and historians... Mindell's major contribution is to explore in abundant and fascinating detail the intellectual and physical roots of cybernetics in fields as distinct as communications engineering, military fire control, and analog computing. -- Karl D. Stephan IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 2004Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1. Introduction: A History of Control Systems2. Naval Control Systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company3. Taming the Beasts of the Machine Age: The Sperry Company4. Opening Black's Box: Bell Labs and the Transmission of Signals5. Artificial Representation of Power Systems: Analog Computing at MIT6. Dress Rehearsal for War: The Four Horsemen and Palomar7. Organizing for War: The Fire Control Divisions of the NDRC8. The Servomechanisms Laboratory and Fire Control for the Masses9. Analog's Finest Hour10. Radar and System Integration at the Radiation Laboratory11. Cybernetics and Ideas of the Digital12. Conclusion: Feedback and Information in 1945Appendix A: Algorithm of the Ford Rangekeeper Mark 1Appendix B: NDRC Section D-2 and Division 7 Contracts for Fire ControlAppendix C: Algorithm of Bell Labs' T-10 DirectorNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Corporate Eye
Book SynopsisShe concludes that the goal uniting the various forms and applications of photographic production in that era was the increased rationalization of the modern economy through a set of interlocking managerial innovations, technologies that sought to redesign not only industrial production but the modern subject as well.Trade ReviewA highly welcome contribution to the field of business history as well as American visual culture. Business History Review 2006 This highly readable, interdisciplinary book provides insights into both the history of American economic development and the history of photography. Afterimage 2006 A unique and interdisciplinary analysis of the intersection between visual and commercial culture in the USA. History of Photography 2006 The Corporate Eye is American studies and interdisciplinary cultural history at its best. Journal of American History 2006 This is a book whose 'big picture' is fully in focus. Technology and Culture 2006 Meticulous research and rich contextualization... A welcome and imaginative addition to the history of visual technologies and commercial history. Industrial Archaeology 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Physiognomy of American Labor: Photography and Employee Rationalization2. Industrial Choreography: Photography and the Standardization of Motion3. Engineering the Subjective: Lewis W. Hine's Work Portraits and Corporate Paternalism in the 1920s4. Rationalizing Consumption: Photography and Commercial IllustrationConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick Roman Catholic
Book SynopsisEncompassing such issues as immigration, the education of nurses and doctors, hospital care and organization, and the role of women in the Catholic church, this extensive study is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the history of medicine, history of nursing, American religion, and women's history.Trade ReviewThose interested in Catholic America will discover much of value here, while students of women's experience will identify vital stages of women's accession to power. H-Catholic, H-Net Reviews 2006 A concise book which, contrary to many congregational histories, does not dwell on the peculiarities of individual institutions but on the essentials of an important social development. Historians of Women Religious of Britian and Ireland 2006 Well written and well researched. It is appropriate for scholars in the history of medicine, nursing, labor, religion, and women and should be required reading for students in each of these disciplines. -- Barbra Mann Wall Catholic Historical Review 2006 Bernadette McCauley, in her slim volume... reinforces the saying, 'good things come in small packages.' -- Anne M. Butler American Catholic Studies 2006 A well written book, and it is a welcome addition to the growing literature. -- Therese C. Meehan Nursing History Review 2008 Clearly the result of much diligent research in an impressive array of sources. -- Andrea Tanner Medical HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. "A Climate New to Them": The FoundationsChapter 2. "To Serve Both God and Man": The SistersChapter 3. "Consoling Influences": Care and TreatmentChapter 4. "Building in New York Is Very Expensive": Hospital FinancesChapter 5. "Trust in God but Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel": Hospital Sisters and ModernizationEpilogue. "A Service So Dear"NotesBibligraphyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ingenium Five Machines That Changed the World
Book SynopsisWhether you dream of making a better mousetrap or launching pumpkins into the stratosphere, Ingenium will tickle your fancy.Trade ReviewDenny has produced a book that is both educational and entertaining. Physics World 2007 This book will give the reader an appreciation of the effectiveness of ancient technology. It will also be a useful reference for engineering and physics instructors. -- Eugene E. Nalence Science Books and Films 2007 User friendly, filled with humor and practicality... not only 'technology wizes' but 'history buffs' and humanists too will enjoy and profit from this book. -- Ilia Stambler European Legacy 2008 The subject matter is extremely well described. -- Brian Gee School Science Review 2008 A well-written, illustrated, and informative book that is readable to all but the mentally lazy. Choice 2008 [ Ingenium] is a good place to learn how they actually worked and how far they could effectively serve the purposes of those who made and used them. -- Alex Keller Technology and Culture 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsTimelineIntroduction1. Bow and Arrow2. Waterwheels and Windmills3. Counterpoise Siege Engines4. Pendulum Clock Anchor Escapement5. Centrifugal Governor6. InventivenessFurther ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Alcoholism in America From Reconstruction to
Book SynopsisHer insights will engage all those interested in America's historic and current battles with addiction.Trade ReviewFascinating. Tracy's book tells a compelling and revelatory story. New England Journal of Medicine 2006 Any reader interested in the subjects of alcoholism or addiction will find it worthwhile. History: Reviews of New Books 2006 A pathbreaking argument about what medicalization meant for patients as well as doctors and, more generally, American culture. Journal of American Culture 2006 Essential reading for any clinician with a historical bent. This valuable monograph traces the tension between moralism and science in the understanding of alcoholism. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 2006 Tracy sets a new standard of sophistication in this lucid exposition of alcohol as 'a complicated cultural signifier.' Journal of American History 2006 One of the signal achievements of Alcoholism in America is its thorough historicization of modern understandings of alcohol abuse. Reviews in American History 2006 Offers historical insight into the sources and solutions to alcohol-related problems... This book will find many appreciative audiences. -- William L. White Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 2006 Meticulous and smart... An important contribution to the field of alcohol and temperance history. -- Elaine Frantz Parsons American Historical Review 2006 This excellent volume reworks intellectual territory opened up in the 1970s and 1980s by members of the Alcohol Research Group. -- Katherine A. Chavigny Journal of the History of Medicine 2006 The most interesting aspect of the book is her analysis of the complex mix of medical and moral considerations that informed the approach to alcoholism over the period. -- Luc Berlivet Medical History 2007 Tells new and important histories of people's efforts to find a cure for themselves or others and provides examples of heartbreaking failures. Her book enriches our reading of reform in this period. -- Rachel E. Bohlmann Annals of Iowa 2006 [Tracy's] fine book illuminates a neglected and often misunderstood chapter in the history of alcohol and alcoholism. JAMA 2008 This is an excellent book... full of interesting case studies, anecdotes and historical insights. It is well worth reading by all of those who have an interest in the way in which we currently construe alcohol policy, and is a brimful of reminders that we are regularly in danger of reinventing the heel unless we carefully study the history of this ubiquitous and puzzling problem. -- E.B. Ritson Alcohol and Alcoholism 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Disease Concept(s) of Inebriety2. Cultural Framing of Inebriety3. Institutional Solutions for Inebriety4. Public Inebriate Hospitals and Farm Colonies5. The "Foxborough Experiment"6. Building a Boozatorium7. On the Vice and Disease of InebrietyConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Godor Gorilla Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age
Book SynopsisEngagingly written and deftly argued, God-or Gorilla offers original insights into the role of images in communicating-and miscommunicating-scientific ideas to the lay public.Trade ReviewThis highly readable book is valuable as it stands. It is also timely. -- Nick Hopwood Nature 2009 Engagingly written, well illustrated, and refreshingly free of the theory-driven jargon that often diverts attention from the task at hand, God-or Gorilla is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Scopes trial, the continuing controversy over the teaching of evolution, and the role of expertise in American society. -- George E. Webb Journal of American History 2009 A shining example of interdisciplinary American Studies at its very best. Choice 2009 Clark's investigation of the images of evolution in the 1920s is a wonderful window into the place of science in the United States and how the cultural concerns of an era can shape scientific activity. -- Charles A. Israel American Historical Review 2009 Perceptive and enjoyable book. -- Warren D. Allmon American Paleontologist 2009 Significant contribution[s] to this broad interdisciplinary area, illuminating the ways in which ideas about organic evolution were contested, and charting the processes by which eugenics acquired an established place in American political and social life. -- Robin Vandome Journal of American Studies 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Caveman and the Strenuous Life2. The Museum in the Modern Babylon3. Nineteen Twenty-two or Thereabouts4. Saving the Phenomena5. Unlikely Infidels6. Stooping to Conquer, and a Hall Full of Elephants7. The Pictures in Our Heads8. Scientists and the Monkey Trial9. Redeeming the Caveman, and the Irreverent Funny PagesConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Fertility Doctor
Book SynopsisThe first scholars to have access to Rock's personal papers, Marsh and Ronner offer a compelling look at a man whose work defined the reproductive revolution, with its dual developments in contraception and technologically assisted conception.Trade ReviewThe authors bring a man and a century to life as they recount two primary discoveries underlying women's still controversial reproductive rights. Publishers Weekly 2008 The Fertility Doctor provides a balanced portrait of a twentieth-century medical giant... They [Marsh and Ronner] deal deftly too with with the ironies that marked Rock's long career. -- Leslie Woodcock Tentler Commonweal 2008 This book will hold an important place in the archives of reproductive medicine. -- Alan H. DeCherney, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine 2009 Eminently readable... It gives an excellent account of his Boston Irish Catholic family background, his childhood, and his psychological maturation. -- Dr. John Shea, MD, FRCP(C) Catholic Insight 2009 Marsh and Ronner have written what is undoubtedly the most thorough and wide-ranging account we have yet on Rock's career and life. -- Bill Williams Conscience 2009 Using an impressive body of primary source material, Marsh (history, Rutgers Univ.-Camden) and Ronner (Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) depict Rock's life through his medical practice and research, both of which seem to define Rock as a person. Choice 2009 The book is most successful in its exploration of Rock's research... offer(s) scholars of American Catholicism a useful portrait of a committed Catholic who deliberately stretched and molded his faith to fit both a more modern world and his own conscience, long before the Second Vatican council made such flexibility more acceptable. -- Mary J. Henold Catholic Historical Review This is a well-researched and welcomed contribution to reproductive history. -- Nicole Howard, PhD Technology and Culture 2009 Enormously valuable. -- Leslie J. Reagan Journal of American History Marsh and Ronner provide us with a much enriched understanding of one of history's most remarkable gynecologists. -- James Reed Social History of Medicine 2010 Marsh and Ronner's collaborative efforts make for a fascinating and important study of Rock and his contributions to the science and culture of reproductive medicine. -- Wendy Kline Isis 2009 The biography of Rock provides detailed insight into the difficult challenges a doctor faced in pushing at the boundaries of reproductive health. -- Lara Marks Medical History 2010 A successful scientific biography. -- Catherine Carstairs Scientia Canadensis 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Family Matters2. Choosing Medicine, Coming of Age3. New Discoveries in Human Reproduction4. Firing the First Shot in the Reproductive Revolution5. The World of the Patients6. The Fertility Doctor Meets the Pill7. The Era of the Pill Begins8. The Face and Voice of the Pill9. The Pill Falls from Grace10. A True VisionaryAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine
Book SynopsisIlluminating the ethnic, political, and personal diversity of women physicians, the book reveals them as dedicated professionals who grapple with obstacles and embrace challenges, even as they negotiate their own health, sexuality, and body images, the needs of their patients, and the rise of the women's health movement.Trade ReviewThis lively collection of essays will no doubt be enlightening to the current generation of medical students, historians, and scholars. -- Barbara F. Atkinson Journal of Clinical Investigation Readers will find much to admire in this book. The individual essays, while diverse, are uniformly well written, well-researched, and impressively documented... Highly recommended. Choice The book would certainly be helpful for medical historians, of course, but also for any person-woman or man-interested in the past, present, and future role of women in medicine. Readers are rewarded with impressive scholarship and exhaustive, essay-specific bibliographies. JAMA Stellar edited collection... Read this book and assign it for class: it succeeds in leaving us informed,inspired, and amazed... It is provocative, deconstructs binaries, shows the personal tolls and struggles faced by these physicians and their use of science, nutrition, professional authority, and maternity (among others) as means to challenge male medical authority and culturally constructed gendered norms. -- Susan E. Cayleff Bulletin of the History of Medicine This important volume delineates the state of the field in many aspects of the history of women physicians in the United States and points the way to the next steps in research. -- Kimberly Jensen Social History of Medicine This collection of essays on the history of American women physicians from the nineteenth century to the present provides the latest, state-of-the-art scholarship on the subject... Invaluable. -- Laura Ettinger American Historical Review A valuable addition to the history of women's struggle for fulfilling careers in medicine. -- H. Hughes Evans Journal of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Women Physicians and Medicine in the United States, 1849 to the PresentPart I: Performing Gender, Being a Woman PhysicianChapter 1. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Women's Health Research Chapter 2. Maternity and the Female Body in the Writings of Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, 1829–1902Chapter 3. Female Patient Agency and the 1892 Trial of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones in Late Nineteenth-Century BrooklynChapter 4. A Chinese Woman Doctor in Progressive Era ChicagoChapter 5. Professionalism versus Sexuality in the Career of Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, 1904–1998Part II: Challenging the Culture of ProfessionalismChapter 6. The Legacy of Masculine Codes of Honor and the Admission of Women to the Medical Profession in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 7. Women Physicians and the Twentieth-Century Women's Health Movement in the United StatesChapter 8. Narrative Forms in Our Bodies, OurselvesChapter 9. Feminists Fight the Culture of Exclusion in Medical Education, 1970–1990Part III: Expanding the BoundariesChapter 10. Women Physicians and Medical Sects in Nineteenth-Century ChicagoChapter 11. Ruth A. Parmelee, Esther P. Lovejoy, and the Discourse of Motherhood in Asia Minor and Greece in the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter 12. Women Physicians and a New Agenda for College Health, 1920–1970Conclusion: Opportunities and Obstacles for Women Physicians in the Twenty-First CenturyList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Prescribing by Numbers
Book SynopsisRather, his provocative and comprehensive analysis sheds light on the increasing presence of the subjectively healthy but highly medicated individual in the American medical landscape, suggesting how historical analysis can help to address the problems inherent in the program of pharmaceutical prevention.Trade ReviewGreene provides suggestions on how to address some of the problems inherent in medical prevention. Choice 2007 Shows how the process of defining disease 'illustrates the porous relationship between the science and the marketing of health care.' -- Nina C. Ayub Chronicle of Higher Education 2007 A gripping story... Greene warns us in his superb book that things are not always as they are claimed. -- Howard Spiro Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine 2007 This is, I believe, one of the best, and most significant, books published recently on the development of medical practice and the pharmaceutical industry in the USA in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Judy Slinn Social History of Medicine 2007 Greene focuses on the question of how public health priorities became closely aligned with the pharmaceutical industry's marketing practices... Offers a nuanced description of the development of 'therapeutics of risk reduction' with multiple lines of influence, subtle power shifts, and gains and losses for patients and physicians. -- Arthur Daemmrich Chemical Heritage 2008 Greene describes the relationship between advances in treatment, the incentives of manufacturers, and the effect on the public of increased attention to prevention... The risk-benefit trade-offs of the quantitative approach are complex, and Greene's historical revelations are timely. -- Kevin A. Schulman, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine 2007 The interaction between medical science and industry has been fruitfully explored by several excellent historians... but Greene's intricate narratives extend their work. -- Marcia Meldrum Isis 2008 I heartily recommend this book. -- Toine Pieters Medical History 2008 By the end of Prescribing by Numbers, one realizes it is an excellent book to think with. Greene uses his case studies to juxtapose the therapeutics of risk with more contemporary health dilemmas. -- Gregory J. Higby Pharmacy in History 2009 Greene's nuanced and lucid research yields new insight into the mechanisms that linked specific medications to the management of particular chronic diseases in the postwar era. -- Cynthia A. Connolly, PhD, RN Nursing History Review 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Pharmacopoeia of Risk ReductionPart One: Diuril and Hypertension, 1957-19771. Releasing the Flood Waters: The Development and Promotion of Diuril2. Shrinking the Symptom, Growing the Disease: Hypertension after DiurilPart Two: Orinase and Diabetes, 1960-19803. Finding the Hidden Diabetic: Orinase Creates a New Market4. Risk and the Symptom: The Trials of OrinasePart Three: Mevacor and Cholesterol, 1970-20005. The Fall and Rise of a Risk Factor: Cholesterol and Its Remedies6. Know Your Number: Cholesterol and the Threshold of PathologyConclusion: The Therapeutic TransitionNotesIndex
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