History of science Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Conceiving Risk Bearing Responsibility
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of medical knowledge about the effects of alcohol on fetal development from nineteenth-century debates about drinking and heredity to the modern diagnosis of FAS and its kindred syndromes.Trade ReviewEasy and interesting to read from a historical as well as from a sociological perspective. Doody's Book Review Service In this well-written book, Elizabeth Armstrong provides an in-depth analysis of fetal alcohol syndrome as a social problem. -- Virginia Chang American Journal of Sociology 2005 A welcome and long overdue critique of the knowledge production in the United States surrounding alcohol use by pregnant women and the diagnostic category of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Social History 2004 Excellent... FAS, because it is seen as preventable, allows society to blame pregnant women who transgress agreed-upon norms rather than seek solutions to the structural problems that lead to adverse birth outcomes and chronic alcohol consumption in the first place. -- Rebecca Tiger Theoretical Criminology 2006 An interesting and informative exploration of the construction of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) as a major social problem within the US. It combines an historical overview, epidemiological data, and qualitative interviewing to show clearly how moral values affect medical and policy pronouncements. -- Pam Lowe Sociology of Health and Illness 2006 The book succeeds as a social history of the medicalization of FAS. -- Constance Weisner, DrPH, MSW JAMA 2005 Armstrong fully explores how our propensity to apply medical labels to social phenomena is worked out within a particular cultural context. -- Mairead Moloney Social Forces A well-researched, highly readable, and convincing example of the ways in which modern medicine continues to create myths, stigmatize the poor and pathologize gender. -- Hera Cook Social History of Medicine A rich and highly readable descriptive account of the gendered politics of moral entrepreneurship in American health research and policy regarding FAS. -- Erica Prussing Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2004 Armstrong draws attention to some important questions about our perceptions of responsibility for alcohol related harm sustained during pregnancy... I hope that her book will lead to a healthy debate and a more objective ethical, medical and scientific approach to this field in the future. -- C. C. H. Cook Addiction 2004 An important book that offers a welcome critique of FAS as a social construct. -- Claudia Malacrida Health 2005 There is much to admire in Armstrong's account: her clever deconstruction of the advocates' invented history of FAS, her sure-handed discussion of the politics of reproduction, and her often-fascinating interview material. -- David T. Courtwright Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2004
£22.95
Johns Hopkins University Press The Nature of Cities
Book SynopsisThe Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.Trade ReviewOf interest to scholars and students of urban history, planning, geography, and sociology, as well as urban studies more generally... Highly recommended. Choice 2010 An outstanding history of how ecological concerns have shaped urban development around the country. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review 2009 A fascinating and suggestive account. -- Adam Rome Technology and Culture 2010 This book makes an important contribution to the study of twentieth century American cities. -- Robert Gioielli Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting American Antiurbanism1. The City Is an Ecological Community2. The City Is a National Resource3. A Life Cycle Plan for Chicago4. From Natural Law to State Law5. A Nation of Renewable CitiesConclusion: From Ecology to SystemNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£51.75
Johns Hopkins University Press Routes of Learning
Book SynopsisAll historians of mathematics and students of the field will want a copy of this remarkable resource on their bookshelves.Trade ReviewHere, Grattan-Guinness, one of the world's leading mathematics historians, has written the seminal how-to-book for the history of mathematics... This reviewer found the book hard to put down. Choice 2010 In spite of the great variation in themes, the book is quite coherent and gives anyone dealing with the history of mathematics food for thought. -- Teun Koetsier History and Philosophy of Logic 2010Table of ContentsPreface1. Searching for Reasons: My Way In and OnwardPart I: Highways in the History of Mathematics2. The Mathematics of the Past: Distinguishing Its History from Our Heritage3. Decline, Then Recovery: An Overview of Activity in the History of Mathematics during the Twentieth Century4. On Certain Somewhat Neglected Features of the History of Mathematics5. General Histories of Mathematics? Of Use? To Whom?6. Too Mathematical for Historians, Too Historicalfor Mathematicians7. History of Science Journals: "To Be Useful, and to the Living"?8. Scientific Revolutions as Convolutions? A Skeptical InquiryPart 2: Pathways in Mathematics Education9. On the Relevance of the History of Mathematics to Mathematical Education10. Achilles Is Still Running11. Numbers, Magnitudes, Ratios, and Proportions in Euclid's Elements: How Did He Handle Them?12. Some Neglected Niches in the Understanding and Teaching of Numbers and Number Systems13. What Was and What Should Be the Calculus?Part 3: Byways in Mathematics and its Culture14. Manifestations of Mathematics in and around the Christianities: Some Examples and Issues15. Christianity and Mathematics: Kinds of Links, and the Rare Occurrences after 175016. Mozart 18, Beethoven 32: Hidden Shadows of Integers in Classical Music17. Lagrange and Mozart as Critics of DescartesPart 4: Lollipops18. Four Pretty but Little-Known Theorems Involving the TriangleIndex
£64.80
Johns Hopkins University Press Ethical Imperialism
Book SynopsisThis short, smart analysis will engage scholars across academia.Trade ReviewEthical Imperialism is a remarkable accomplishment and a must-read for researchers and policy makers. It persuasively weaves together the scholarly, disciplinary, regulatory, and bureaucratic strands that account for today's 'omnipresent threat' to social research. Canadian Journal of Sociology This book ought to be required reading for those concerned about the political forces that make our work possible, and sometimes not possible at all. -- Susan B. Reverby American Historical Review [A]n impressive assessment of IRBs, from their tenuous beginnings in the early 1960s as a practical response to a perceived threat to the public from medical research to [their] present status as a threat to academic freedom in the social sciences... [A] significant contribution to those oral historians and related practitioners who would seek to challenge IRB's right and ability to adequately evaluate their research projects, particularly before the research has been conducted. Oral History Review A valuable contribution to the history of federal science policy and a useful critique of a system ill-suited to the uses to which it is being put. Journal of American History The book is a powerful indictment of the IRB regime. Law and Politics Book Review Exhaustively researched, drawing on... a wide array of sources. -- Donald N. Bersoff PsycCRITIQUES Thoroughly researched story of how IRBs came to be, how they came to adopt rules designed for medical, biological, and psychological researchers and then to apply them to the social sciences, how those rules became institutionalized, and how the rules protect universities rather than the people who serve as subjects and informants in social science research. Contemporary Sociology I highly recommended this book for its contribution to the discussion of academic freedom, social science research, and the regulation of research ethics. -- Ellen Marakowitz AAUP: Regulated ResearchTable of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Ethics and Committees2. The Spread of Institutional Review3. The National Commission4. The Belmont Report5. The Battle for Social Science6. Détente and Crackdown7. The Second Battle for Social Science8. Accommodation or Resistance?ConclusionNotesIndex
£37.35
University of Nebraska Press The Firmament of Time
Book SynopsisExamines what we as a species have become in the late twentieth century. Loren Eiseley’s illuminating and accessible discussion is a characteristically skillful and compelling synthesis of hard scientific theory, factual evidence, personal anecdotes, haunting reflection, and poetic prose.Trade Review"Dr. Eiseley describes with zest and admiration the giant steps that have led man, in a scant three hundred years, to grasp the nature of his extraordinary past and to substitute a natural world for a world of divine creation and intervention. . . . An irresistible inducement to partake of the almost forgotten excitements of reflection."—New Yorker"[This book] has a warm feeling for all natural phenomena; it has a rapport with man and his world and his problems; it has appraisal, and even blame and condemnation; but, above all, it has hope and belief. And it has the beauty of prose that characterizes Eiseley’s philosophical moods."—Chicago Sunday Tribune"There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available. . . . We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. . . . His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."—Bloomsbury Review
£14.24
Stanford University Press SelfGeneration Biology Philosophy and Literature
Book SynopsisThis volume begins by describing how and why epigenesis came to replace the reigning model of biological origination, preformation the theory that all organisms were preformed at the creation of the world.Trade Review“This very important book provides a rare insight into the background conditions of philosophical and literary production in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by examining the debate in biology between preformation theory and epigenesis. The chief significance of Müller-Sievers' study lies in demonstrating that the victory of epigenesis shaped theory formation in philosophy (Kant, Fichte), language acquisition (Herder, Humboldt), and literature (Goethe, Beaumarchais).”—Eckart Förster, University of MunichTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
£52.20
Stanford University Press Science on Stage Expert Advice as Public Drama
Book SynopsisBehind today's headlines stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors—panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate the safety of the food we eat, the drugs we take, and the cars we drive. This book studies, theoretically and empirically, the social process through which the credibility of expert advice is produced, challenged, and sustained.Trade Review"A useful contribution to discussions of methodologies for examining the role of scientific experts in public policy debates." -- New Genetics and SocietyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Enacting authoritative reports; 3. Attacking advisory reports; 4. The character of the academy; 5. Conclusion.
£20.89
Stanford University Press Mathematics as Sign Writing Science Writing
Book SynopsisIn this book, Rotman argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. It addresses both aspects—mental and linguistic—of this machine. The essays in this volume offer an insight into Rotman's project, one that has been called "one of the most original and important recent contributions to the philosophy of mathematics."Table of ContentsPreface: writing, imagining, counting; 1. Toward a semiotics of mathematics; 2. Making marks on paper; 3. How ideal are the reals? 4. God tricks; or, numbers from the bottom up? 5. Counting on non-Euclidean fingers; Notes; Index.
£22.79
Stanford University Press Picture Control The Electron Microscope and the
Book SynopsisThis first detailed historical treatment of the electron microscope in biology advances an original philosophical argument on the relation of experimental technology to scientific change.Trade Review"All too often the history of sciences takes for granted the role of instruments in scientific progress. Picture Control is a welcome and notable exception. . . . The book is rich in historic anecdotes. . . . Rasmussen provides a cogent discussion of introducing a revolutionary instrument into science."—American ZoologistTable of ContentsNote on usage and technical terms Introduction: scientific knowledge and its means of production 1. RCA and the war years 2. Stuart Mudd and his school of bacteriological electron microscopy 3. The Rockefeller school and the rise of cell biology 4. Muscle, nerve, and the iron men of MIT 5. Wendell Stanley. Robley Williams, and the land of the virus 6. Through another looking glass: lived experience and biological electron microscopy Notes Index.
£28.80
Stanford University Press The Personal Interface Douglas Engelbart the
Book SynopsisThis tells the story of Douglas Engelbart's revolutionary vision, reaching beyond conventional histories of Silicon Valley to probe the ideology that shaped some of the basic ingredients of contemporary life.Trade Review"Bootstrapping fills an important gap in the story of personal computing." -- Technology and Culture"Thierry Bardini particularly explores the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of Engelbart's book. . . . Indeed, the breadth of Engelbart's contributions and influence, documented in meticulous detail, are astonishing. . . ." -- Enterprise & Society"Anyone who has worked in computer-human interface or in and around Silicon Valley institutions such as SRI, Xerox PARC, IBM Almaden Research Center or Apple Computer will certainly relish this book. Moreover, those in a private, government or non-profit office filled with the fruits of contemporary productivity technology will appreciate Bardini's tales of politics, committees, funding and grants, demos to funders and skeptical management, and all those fascinating projects at PARC and SRI." -- Leonardo ReviewsTable of ContentsPart I. Premises: 1. A problematic picture of the personal interface 2. Social change and networks Part II. The Prehistory of the Laboratory: 3. Douglas C. Engelbart and the ARPA community 4. The augmentation framework and the relativist tradition Part III. Kinaesthetics and the Hypertextual Piano: Feeling the Code: 5. From physico-motor skills to kinaesthetic communication 6. The mouse is more than a pointing device Part IV. The Social Construction of the Personal Interface: 7. The beginnings of the hypermedium 8. The genesis of the graphic interface 9. The (inter)personal interface Part V. Coda: 10. When hand and memory meet again.
£25.19
Stanford University Press Searching for the Secrets of Nature
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by historians, historians of science and medicine, and literary and textual scholarsfrom the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Spainanalyzes the achievements of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87) in the history of medicine and science in Europe and the Americas. Celebrated in his own day as one of Spain''s leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work on the native plants and materia medica of central Mexico.Sent to New Spain in 1570 by King Philip II to research and describe the natural history of the region, to assess the medical usefulness of the natural resources, and to gather ethnographic materials for an anthropological history, Hernández was the first trained scientist to undertake scientific work in the New World. For seven years he gathered information throughout the Valley of Mexico, learning Nahuatl, recording local medical customs, studying indigenous medicines, and writing down all his observationTrade Review"These books represent a remarkable scholarly achievement and a splendid tribute to a remarkable man who linked two rich civilizations."—Nature"This is a fundamental contribution in the English language to the study of natural history of the New World, Mexico in particular, in the Renaissance, which must be placed on every reading list of courses on the encounters with the New World."—Renaissance Quarterly"Enlightening and entertaining to pick up and look for areas of specific reader interest."—Southeastern NaturalistTable of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Editorial methods Chronology Introduction 1. The world of Dr Francisco Hernandez Dora B. Weiner 2. Philip II: imperial obligations and scientific vision Peter O'Malley Pierson Part I. The Intellectual Milieu of Hernandez: 3. The classical tradition in Renaissance Spain and new trends in philology, medicine and materia medica Rafael Chabran 4. Francisco Hernandez, Renaissance man Simon Varey 5. Hernandez in Me;xico: exile and censorship? Carmen Benito-Vessels Part II. Medical Knowledge and Practices in New Spain: 6. Regulation of medical practitioners in the age of Francisco Hernandez John Jay Tepaske 7. Shelter and care for natives and colonists: hospitals in sixteenth-century New Spain Guenter B. Risse 8. Illness, epidemics, and displaced classes in sixteenth-century New Spain Elsa Malvido 9. Anthropology, reason, and the dictates of faith in the Antiquities of Francisco Hernandez David A. Boruchoff Entr'acte Rafael Chabran and Simon Varey Part III. The Dissemination of Hernandez's Knowledge: 10. The reception of American drugs in Europe, 1500-1650 J. Worth Estes 11. The contribution of Hernandez to European botany and materia medica Jose M. Lopez Pinero and Jose Parso Tomas 12. Hernandez in the Netherlands and England Rafael Chabran and Simon Varey 13. Hernandez and Spanish painting in the seventeenth century Mari;a Jose Lopez Terrada 14. Globalizing the Natural History Jaime Vilchis 15. The circulation of the work of Hernandez in nineteenth-century Spain Leoncio Lopez-Ocon Part IV. Postscript: Continuing Traditions of Mexican Medicine: 16. Latino Catholic civilization: patterns of health and demography David Hayes-Bautista 17. The popular legacy of Francisco Hernandez Simon Varey and Rafael Chabran Glossary Index.
£59.40
Stanford University Press Einstein and Soviet Ideology
Book SynopsisThis book traces the historical trajectory of one of the most momentous confrontations in the intellectual life of the Soviet Union the conflict between Einstein s theory of relativity and official Soviet ideology embodied in dialectical materialism.Trade Review"Vucinich's book will interest historians of science. . . . Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- Choice"This book will be of interest to historians and philosophers of science. . . . Both in person and his writings, Alexander Vucinich made difficult subjects accessible and provided the foundations for others to extend studies into the history and philosophy of Soviet science." -- Slavic Review"A rich meditation on cosmology, science, ethics, and the question of whether the modern world can afford unitary truths, Einstein is a fitting final gift of Vucinich, who passed away in May 2000." Common Knowledge"For anyone with an interest in the relations between science and culture in the Soviet Union and Russia, the book is essential reading." * Slavic and East European Journal *
£59.40
Stanford University Press Experiments Models Paper Tools
Book SynopsisExperimentalization in chemistry was driven by a sign system of chemical formulas invented by the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius. By tracing the history of this "paper tool", this work shows how chemistry lost its orientation to natural history.Trade Review"This is a very valuable and stimulating book." -- American Historical Review"[Klein] herself has made a major contribution to the philosophy and the history of chemistry by making clear the existence and the manner of a major but overlooked transformation in organic chemistry. Methodologically and substantively, this is a significant achievement." -- Canadian Journal of History"Experiments, Models, Paper Tools is a clear and compelling account of an important epoch in the history of organic chemistry, as well as a fine demonstration and elaboration of Klein's most fruitful investigation into the special role of systems of representation in the history of chemistry." -- Annals of Science"...an original contribution to the history of chemistry and a fascinating book....clearly presented, intellectually stimulating, and a pleasure to read." -- British Journal of the History of ScienceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Semiotics of Berzelian Chemical Formulas The Various Meanings of Berzelian Formulas Image and Language: The Syntax of Berzelian Formulas 2. Two Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century: A Structural Comparison The Area of Research Objects in Early Nineteenth-Century Plant and Animal Chemistry Plant and Animal Substances: A Cross between Natural History and Chemistry The Classification of Plant and Animal Substances "Nature" and "Art" in the Experimental Practice of Plant and Animal Chemistry The Experimental Culture of Organic Chemistry after 1840 The Two Forms of Organic Chemistry Compared 3. Experiments on the Periphery of Plant Chemistry Ether Production and Commercial Pharmacy Interpretive Models of the Formation of Ordinary Ether around 1800 Quantitative Approaches in the Study of Organic Reactions Simplified Quantitative Experiments The Manufacture of an Artificial Oil in the Chemical Laboratory New Attempts to Balance the Masses of Reacting Substances The Overthrow of the Accepted Interpretive Model of the Formation of Ordinary Ether 4. Paper Tools for the Construction of Interpretive Models of Chemical Reactions The Historical Problem Modeling Separate Reaction Pathways The Performative Function of Berzelian Formulas 5. Paper Tools for the Classification of Organic Substances The Structure and Function of Dumas and Boullay's Table Experimentation and the Construction of Formula Models for the "Compounds of Bicarbonated Hydrogen" The Enlargement of Substance Classes by the Construction of Further Formula Models Manipulations of Formulas and Their Significance Reception of the New Classification among European Chemists 6. Paper Tools for Modeling the Constitution of Organic Compounds The Shared Conceptual Preconditions for the Models of Constitution Models of Constitution Prior to 1833 The Controversy 7. The Dialectic of Tools and Goals A Performative Account of Conceptual Development The Creation of Mutual Adjustments and Its Reflection in the New Mode of Justification 8. The Historical Transformation Process Model Objects and Unintended Paradigmatic Achievements The Structural Transformation 9. Paper Tools Filling in the Gaps of Inscription Devices Chains of Inscriptions and Paper Tools Notes Literature Cited Index
£62.90
Stanford University Press Experimenting in Tongues
Book SynopsisLeading scholars in the history of science address the historical, methodological, and ideological motivation behind scientists' use of language metaphors, such as "reading" the human genome, "rewriting" the genetic code, and developing programming "language."Trade Review"Though ranging from early modern astrology to contemporary genetics and computer sciences, Experimenting in Tongues coheres beautifully in its analysis of the roles of metaphor and language in science. Dorries' thoughtful introduction complements this volume's insightful contributions. The result promises to push our understanding of metaphor in science to a higher level." -- Michael Dietrich * Dartmouth College *Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1. Dorries Matthias 2. Richards Robert J. 3. Suhr Stephanie 4. Keller Evelyn Fox 5. Geneva Ann 6. Licoppe Christian 7. Pfluger Jorg
£89.10
Stanford University Press Nature Empire and Nation
Book SynopsisThis collection of essay explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early- modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national.Trade Review"Nature, Empire, and Nation is a compilation of [Cañizares-Esguerra's] most influential essays on the history of Hispanic science from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century. Taken together, they demonstrate how the much-ignored scientific contributions of the early modern Hispanic world in fact laid much of the groundwork for modern scientific practices... While Cañizares definitively demonstrates that the early modern Iberian scientific culture was both Western and modern, his work is especially innovative in how it recognizes and embraces the aspects of this science that are not entirely modern or rational." -- Itinerario"The sheer breadth and richness of the materials discussed make this book a treasure trove of primary sources and historiography: it spans four centuries, a tremendous geographical scope, a wealth of disciplines, and a plethora of primary and secondary materials, including many astutely observed images. Nature, Empire, and Nation will prove enlightening and provocative for both specialists and nonspecialists." -- Daniela Bleichmar * University of Southern California *"As the myriad of examples in this book attest, the Iberian World not only introduced one of the dominant tropes of modernity but also continued to contribute to and participate in broader cultural phenomena of modernity and modern science. In the end, these essays offer an engaging perspective on an underrepresented topic and forcefully suggest that some re-thinking of received narratives of modernity, such as that of the Scientific Revolution, is in order... With the publication of this collection of essays, science in the early modern Iberian World can not be ignored much longer." -- A Contracorriente"[Nature, Empire, and Nation] examines fascinating, often under-studied works that cover an impressive range of disciplines and include navigational, cosmographic, geographic, ethnographic, historical, botanical, religious, and literary texts... The story it tells of the convergence and divergence of two traditions that engage in the study of nature—the metropolitan, instumental, and imperial, on the one hand, and the patriotic, symbolic, and national that appropriates and transforms the former tradition to serve its own ends, on the other—needs to be told." -- New Perspectives on the 18th Century"Pathbreaking and provocative throughout, Nature, Empire, and Nation represents revisionist history at its best. The eight essays assembled here focus new attention on a much-neglected area of research: the place of both Spain and Spanish America in the history of early modern science and scientific thought. Cañizares-Esguerra's range of subjects is impressive—botany, cosmography, ecology, race, and more—but he addresses each in a lively, intelligent, and accessible manner. The book should be required reading for historians of science, as well as for anyone with interests in the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world." -- Richard L. Kagan * Johns Hopkins University *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Chivalric Epistemology and Patriotic Narratives: Iberian Colonial Science 000 Chapter 2 The Colonial Iberian Roots of the "Scientific Revolution" 000 Chapter 3 From Baroque to Modern Colonial Science 000 Chapter 4 New World, New Stars: Patriotic Astrology and the Invention of Indian and Creole Bodies in Colonial Spanish America, 16001650 000 Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century Spanish Political Economy: Epistemology and Decline 000 Chapter 6 How Derivative Was Humboldt? Microcosmic Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities 000 Chapter 7 Landscapes and Identities: Mexico 18501900 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
£91.80
Stanford University Press Nature Empire and Nation
Book SynopsisThis collection of essay explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early- modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national.Trade Review"Nature, Empire, and Nation is a compilation of [Cañizares-Esguerra's] most influential essays on the history of Hispanic science from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century. Taken together, they demonstrate how the much-ignored scientific contributions of the early modern Hispanic world in fact laid much of the groundwork for modern scientific practices... While Cañizares definitively demonstrates that the early modern Iberian scientific culture was both Western and modern, his work is especially innovative in how it recognizes and embraces the aspects of this science that are not entirely modern or rational." -- Itinerario"The sheer breadth and richness of the materials discussed make this book a treasure trove of primary sources and historiography: it spans four centuries, a tremendous geographical scope, a wealth of disciplines, and a plethora of primary and secondary materials, including many astutely observed images. Nature, Empire, and Nation will prove enlightening and provocative for both specialists and nonspecialists." -- Daniela Bleichmar * University of Southern California *"As the myriad of examples in this book attest, the Iberian World not only introduced one of the dominant tropes of modernity but also continued to contribute to and participate in broader cultural phenomena of modernity and modern science. In the end, these essays offer an engaging perspective on an underrepresented topic and forcefully suggest that some re-thinking of received narratives of modernity, such as that of the Scientific Revolution, is in order... With the publication of this collection of essays, science in the early modern Iberian World can not be ignored much longer." -- A Contracorriente"[Nature, Empire, and Nation] examines fascinating, often under-studied works that cover an impressive range of disciplines and include navigational, cosmographic, geographic, ethnographic, historical, botanical, religious, and literary texts... The story it tells of the convergence and divergence of two traditions that engage in the study of nature—the metropolitan, instumental, and imperial, on the one hand, and the patriotic, symbolic, and national that appropriates and transforms the former tradition to serve its own ends, on the other—needs to be told." -- New Perspectives on the 18th Century"Pathbreaking and provocative throughout, Nature, Empire, and Nation represents revisionist history at its best. The eight essays assembled here focus new attention on a much-neglected area of research: the place of both Spain and Spanish America in the history of early modern science and scientific thought. Cañizares-Esguerra's range of subjects is impressive—botany, cosmography, ecology, race, and more—but he addresses each in a lively, intelligent, and accessible manner. The book should be required reading for historians of science, as well as for anyone with interests in the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world." -- Richard L. Kagan * Johns Hopkins University *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Chivalric Epistemology and Patriotic Narratives: Iberian Colonial Science 000 Chapter 2 The Colonial Iberian Roots of the "Scientific Revolution" 000 Chapter 3 From Baroque to Modern Colonial Science 000 Chapter 4 New World, New Stars: Patriotic Astrology and the Invention of Indian and Creole Bodies in Colonial Spanish America, 16001650 000 Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century Spanish Political Economy: Epistemology and Decline 000 Chapter 6 How Derivative Was Humboldt? Microcosmic Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities 000 Chapter 7 Landscapes and Identities: Mexico 18501900 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
£22.49
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Botanizers Amateur Scientists in NineteenthCentury America
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University of Pennsylvania Press Biotech
Book SynopsisThe seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research. Given such extraordinary stakes, a history of the commercial biotechnology industry must inquire far beyond the predictable attention to scientists, discovery, and corporate sales. It must pursue how something so complex as the biotechnology industry was born, poised to become both a vanguard for contemporary world capitalism and a focal point for polemic ethical debate.In Biotech, Eric J. Vettel chronicles the story behind genetic engineering, recombinant DNA, cloning, and stem-cell research. It is a story about the meteoric rise of government support for scientific research during the Cold War, about activists and student protesters in the Vietnam era pressing for a new purpose in science, aboTrade Review"Eric Vettel ably illuminates the political economy of science at the end of the 1960s, including the impact on attitudes among younger bioscientists of the demand for relevance in research; and he provides a riveting on-the-ground account of how in the Bay Area that response helped give birth to the region's biotechnology industry. This is a valuable book, deeply researched and altogether readable." * Daniel Kevles, Yale University *"The wide range of economic, social, cultural, and personal factors chronicled in the book-particularly the interaction between the institutional and personal-gives the reader a deep appreciation of the subtle and complex forces at work during this tumultuous period in U.S. history. . . . [Biotech] offers a provocative early look at an enterprise that is sure to receive much more scholarly analysis in the years to come." * American Historical Review *"Compelling, well-documented, and important. . . . [Biotech] helps us begin to see some of the complex questions that we will have to address in deciding how much and which basic research, applied science, and technological application we want." * BioScience *"This is one of those rare books. . . . What is passed over or hinted at in other histories is here explored in depth and with the skill that comes from a sympathetic familiarity with his subject and subjects. . . . The only history of the field I will keep and recommend." * Nature Biotechnology *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Star Territory
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1. Almanacs in the Astronomical Nation Chapter 2. The Emancipatory Cosmology of the First Black Press Chapter 3. Cherokee Astronomy Chapter 4. The National Almanac in Peace and War Chapter 5. Hawaiian Cosmography in Print Epilogue. The Third Space Age Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument
Book SynopsisExamines the historical creation and meaning of a range of scientific textual forms in the 17th-19th centuries. Contributors consider examples from the fields of medicine, physics, zoology, physiology and mathematics, searching for an approach to the scientific heritage which is rooted in history.
£49.30
Rutgers University Press Missions for Science USTechnology and Medicine in
Book SynopsisThis text explores how modern and industrial and scientific advances shaped black Atlantic population centres. It provides historical analysis of how shifting environmental factors and disease control aid from the United States affected the collective development of these populations.Trade ReviewMcBride looks at the impact of scientific and technological development on people of African descent and under the influence of the US. àRecommended. * Choice *An important contribution to the history of the African Diaspora and to the history of U.S. foreign aid and public health projects. -- Joseph L. Graves, Jr. * author of The EmperorÆs New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Milleniu *A broad and probing look at race, disease, and labor in the black Atlantic, from Haiti and Liberia to the former slave states of the American republic. -- Robert N. Proctor * author of Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis *McBride looks at the impact of scientific and technological development on people of African descent and under the influence of the US. He presents four case studies: the American South, the Panama Canal Zone (where black labor was imported), Haiti (an overwhelmingly black Caribbean nation, occupied for much of its history by the US), and Liberia (an African nation founded by the US as a refuge for freed deported slaves). . . . Recommended . * Choice *
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MW - Rutgers University Press Genetic Witness Science Law and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling
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John Wiley & Sons The Malthusian Moment Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism Studies in Modern Science Technology and the Environment
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£105.40
Rutgers University Press The Malthusian Moment Global Population Growth
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Whatever happened to overpopulation? Thomas Robertson’s thorough, lively, and superbly historicized account helps us think through this most pressing question." * Environmental History *"An excellent synthesis. The real strength of Robertson's work is his consideration of the dynamism and complexity of attitudes toward overpopulation. Writing a historical synthesis is never easy, but good environmental history demands it. Robertson has pulled the task off in spades." * Journal of American History *"Skillfully weaving together heightened concerns over rampant consumerism, accelerating population growth and environmental degradation, and their impact on American foreign policy, The Malthusian Moment is very likely to become obligatory reading for those interested in the tumultuous decades of the Vietnam era." -- Michael Adas * Rutgers University *"This volume traces how the sociopolitically-based environmental movement of the post-WW II era embraced the siren calls of biologists warning of the global impact of overpopulation. Recommended." * Choice *"The Malthusian Moment is a valuable book that brings environmental history in touch with diplomatic and international history, helping to fill a gap in our understanding of the rise and fall of population politics." -- Kurk Dorsey * University of New Hampshire *"Robertson explores complex linkages among global population growth, the politics of population, food and hunger, and American environmental anxiety in the 20th century. His is the clearest, most incisive study of American thinking on population from 1945-75, the height of Malthusian fears in intellectual and official circles." -- J.R. McNeill * Georgetown University *"The great strength of this volume is the way the author teases out how ecological models and biological thinking shaped the population discussion in the 1960s, and how Ehrlich in particular rethought his formulations in light of the nuances of political matters, and re-emphasized his critiques to be more sensitive to his audience." * Canadian Studies in Population *“Whatever happened to overpopulation? Thomas Robertson’s thorough, lively, and superbly historicized account helps us think through this most pressing question." * Environmental History *"An excellent synthesis. The real strength of Robertson's work is his consideration of the dynamism and complexity of attitudes toward overpopulation. Writing a historical synthesis is never easy, but good environmental history demands it. Robertson has pulled the task off in spades." * Journal of American History *"Skillfully weaving together heightened concerns over rampant consumerism, accelerating population growth and environmental degradation, and their impact on American foreign policy, The Malthusian Moment is very likely to become obligatory reading for those interested in the tumultuous decades of the Vietnam era." -- Michael Adas * Rutgers University *"This volume traces how the sociopolitically-based environmental movement of the post-WW II era embraced the siren calls of biologists warning of the global impact of overpopulation. Recommended." * Choice *"The Malthusian Moment is a valuable book that brings environmental history in touch with diplomatic and international history, helping to fill a gap in our understanding of the rise and fall of population politics." -- Kurk Dorsey * University of New Hampshire *"Robertson explores complex linkages among global population growth, the politics of population, food and hunger, and American environmental anxiety in the 20th century. His is the clearest, most incisive study of American thinking on population from 1945-75, the height of Malthusian fears in intellectual and official circles." -- J.R. McNeill * Georgetown University *"The great strength of this volume is the way the author teases out how ecological models and biological thinking shaped the population discussion in the 1960s, and how Ehrlich in particular rethought his formulations in light of the nuances of political matters, and re-emphasized his critiques to be more sensitive to his audience." * Canadian Studies in Population *Table of ContentsMalthusianism, eugenics, and carrying capacity in the interwar period War and nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the birth of global ecology Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life "Feed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier during the Cold War The "Chinification" of American cities, suburbs, and wilderness Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the population bomb Strange bedfellows: population politics, 1968-1970 We're all in the same boat!?: The disuniting of spaceship earth Ronald Reagan, the new right, and population growth
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Shaky Foundations The PoliticsPatronageSocial
Book SynopsisNumerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundations provides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years and took more definite shape during the 1950s and early 1960s.Trade Review"Solovey’s social scientists are neither naïve researchers exploited by the military-industrial complex nor greedy masterminds eagerly anticipating their patrons’ needs. Instead, he presents us with a series of encounters between program managers, disciplinary spokesmen, and political partisans, each of which demonstrates its participants’ unexpectedly complex positions. In what feels like a prelude to contemporary partisan investigations of the social sciences, Shaky Foundations recounts numerous instances of McCarthy-era attacks on social scientists as leftist agitators." * Science *"Shaky Foundations offers an important new argument about how the American social sciences interacted with wider social and political forces during the Cold War era. Solovey has done very important work in establishing the bitterly contested character of postwar epistemological and institutional shifts." * Isis *"Shaky Foundations impressively pulls back the curtain on American social scientists and their complex relationships with funding agencies, offering crucial insights into the past—and the future—of social science." -- David C. Engerman * author of Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts *"This is an important book. The brilliance of this book lies in pinpointing the origins of the terms that are still used in contemporary debates on the role of social science in the United States. This book is a critical tool in approaching the most essential question —what next for American social science?" * LSE Review of Books *"Solovey makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the development of social sciences in the U.S. during the 20th century. A major achievement is the author's presentation of this often complicated and complex story in a clearly written and well-documented manner. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Shaky Foundations is a well-researched account of the rise of a new patronage system for the social sciences in the early Cold War-era United States. Solovey leaves readers with a sharpened understanding of the travails of social science research during the first two decades of the Cold War." * Journal of American History *"In this clearly written and thoroughly researched book, Mark Solovey takes a new approach to writing the history of the social sciences in America by 'following the money' and examining how patrons and their agendas shaped the development of the field." -- Nadine Weidman * author of Constructing Scientific Psychology: Karl Lashley's Mind-Brain Debates *"Shaky Foundations offer[s] intersting insights into scholarship in Cold War North America." * British Journal of the History of Science *"Solovey's book [presents] a complex and heterogeneous picture of the interest and the political positions surrounding the great advancement of the social sciences during the Postwar era." * Sociologica *"A crucial resource for the growing community of historians interested in the history of the social sciences, as well as for historians of education and intellectual historians of the Cold War." * The Historian *"We Are All Research Subjects Now: And Cold War-era safeguards won’t protect us," by Sarah E. Igo * Journal of Higher Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Social Science on the Endless (and End-less?) Frontier2. Defense and Offense in the Military Science Establishment3. Vision, Analysis, or Subversion?4. Cultivating Hard-Core Social Research at the NSFConclusionNotesIndex
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Ignition An Informal History of Liquid Rocket
Book SynopsisThis newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safetyTrade Review"This insider's account of the early years of rocketry captures the excitement of researching and developing technologies that lie outside the realm of computer science. While we're accustomed to think of technological progress in terms of Moore's law, in a few short years these engineers went from launching metal tubes small enough to hold in your hand to propelling a two ton metal capsule containing three humans all the way to the moon."— Inc., 9 Powerful Books Elon Musk Recommends "A good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one." — Elon Musk "Ignition! is a history of liquid rocket propellants, but it's also a history of cold war and the space race, told from a particular point of view....That humor helps the accessibility, and as long as you remember some high school chemistry you shouldn't have a problem with the science either."— Ars Technica "Ignition!, originally written in 1972, is back in print after a long hiatus. A classic book, it tells a rollicking story of an era when space was the frontier. An informative history, it reads like an adventure story."— Galveston County Daily News "Read this book. You’ll find plenty about John and all the other sky-high crackpots who were in the field with him and you may even get (as I did) a glimpse of the heroic excitement that seemed to make it reasonable to cuddle with death every waking moment—to say nothing of learning a heck of a lot about the way in which the business of science is really conducted." — Issac Asimov, from the foreword "Ignition! is a hard-to-get-your-hands-on account of early rocket science...Clark was an American chemist active in the development of rocket fuels back in the 1960s and 1970s, and the book is both an account of the growth of the field and an explainer of how the science works." — Business InsiderTable of ContentsContents In Re John D. Clark - foreword by Issac Asimov Preface 1 How It Started 2 Peenemunde and JPL 3 The Hunting of the Hypergol . . . 4 . . . and Its Mate 5 Peroxide – Always a Bridesmaid 6 Halogens and Politics and Deep Space 7 Performance 8 Lox and Flox and Cryogenics in General 9 What Ivan Was Doing 10 “Exotics” 11 The Hopeful Monoprops 12 High Density and the Higher Foolishness 13 What Happens Next Glossary Index
£105.40
University of Virginia Press Reading Contagion
Book SynopsisArgues that the fear of infected books energized aesthetic and political debates about the power of reading, which could alter individual and social bodies by connecting people of all sorts in dangerous ways through print.
£36.05
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature
Book SynopsisExamining novels and art criticism by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater alongside scientific works by Hermann von Helmholtz, William James, and others, this book shows how Victorian literature offers us ways not just to touch but to grapple with the material realities that Clifford Geertz called the ""hard surfaces of life"".Trade Review"Written in a lucid, engaging style, this eloquent and deeply researched study demonstrates a powerful grasp of the role nineteenth-century language philosophy and physiology played in shaping how literature and art criticism considered their basic materials--language, art, and perception."
£31.30
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Regenerating Romanticism
Book SynopsisWith this groundbreaking study, Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children’s literature that obviously and technically engage with the natural sciences.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Revealing the Strawman; or, the Historical Hoodwinking of Romanticism 1. Botany's Seasonal Disorder: Thomson's Progressive Time, Conjectural Histories, and the Backwardness of Spring 2. Linnaeus's Botanical Clocks: Chronobiological Mechanisms in the Scientific Poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans 3. Transformations of Gender, Race, and Poetic Sensibility: Maria Riddell's Transatlantic Botany and Biopolitics 4. Cultivated for Consumption: Botany, Colonial Cannibalism, and National/Natural History in Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl 5. "On the green margin": Place, Sensibility, and Originality in Charlotte Smith's "Flora" 6. Botany and Madness: Anna Seward, Sensibility, and the Floral Insanities of Darwin, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Clare Conclusion: De Quincey, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and the Critical Fate of Romanticism and Scientific Literature Notes Bibliography
£81.60
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Regenerating Romanticism
Book SynopsisWith this groundbreaking study, Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children’s literature that obviously and technically engage with the natural sciences.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Revealing the Strawman; or, the Historical Hoodwinking of Romanticism 1. Botany's Seasonal Disorder: Thomson's Progressive Time, Conjectural Histories, and the Backwardness of Spring 2. Linnaeus's Botanical Clocks: Chronobiological Mechanisms in the Scientific Poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans 3. Transformations of Gender, Race, and Poetic Sensibility: Maria Riddell's Transatlantic Botany and Biopolitics 4. Cultivated for Consumption: Botany, Colonial Cannibalism, and National/Natural History in Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl 5. "On the green margin": Place, Sensibility, and Originality in Charlotte Smith's "Flora" 6. Botany and Madness: Anna Seward, Sensibility, and the Floral Insanities of Darwin, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Clare Conclusion: De Quincey, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and the Critical Fate of Romanticism and Scientific Literature Notes Bibliography
£24.30
MI - New York University Medicating Modern America Prescription Drugs in
Book SynopsisExploring the rich and multi-faceted history of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States, Medicating Modern America unveils the untold stories behind America's pharmaceutical obsessionTrade ReviewA set of fascinating case studies. . . . Anyone who has taken prescription medications can benefit by reading it. * Metapsychology Online Reviews *A well-edited collection of eight timely and provocative essays about the key prescription drugs that have, for better or worse, helped shape American consumer culture and health since World War I. * Journal of the History of Medicine *These challenging essays mark the transformation of medication from a tradition of need assessed by physicians, to a culture that far exceeds a basic threshold for drugs on demand on the part of the public. * Choice *Nowhere do pharmaceutical companies sell more drugs, make more money, affect more lives, or wield more power than in the United States. These sophisticated but accessible essays trace the history of eight types of prescription blockbusters, from antibiotics to Viagra, and show how they have changed Americans thinking about disease, consumer rights, and normality itself. They force us to confront the paradox of a pill-taking society that wages war on some drugs but avidly seeks out others to economically profitable if not always therapeutically benign effect. -- David Courtwright,author of Forces of Habit and Dark ParadiseTheir excellent example of balanced analysis should inspire other scholars to pursue further work in the new pharmaceutical history. -- Gregory J. Higby * The Journal of American History *&;The most valuable role of Medicating Modern America is as a teaching text. There are currently very few texts available for undergraduate teachers that offer digestible and critical assessments of the role of prescription drugs in the history of twentieth-century biomedicine; Medical Modern Americaby providing a series of highly accessible and engaging analyses of prescriptions drugssuperbly fills this gap. * Social History of Medicine *Provides a series of highly accessible and engaging analyses of prescriptions drugs. * Social Hiistory of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel WatkinsPart I1. Antibiotics From Germophobia to the Carefree Life and Back Again: The Lifecycle of the Antibiotic BrandRobert Bud2. Mood Stabilizers Folie to Folly: The Modern Mania for Bipolar Disorders and Mood StabilizersDavid Healy3. Hormone Replacement "Educate Yourself": Consumer Information about Menopause and Hormone Replacement TherapyElizabeth Siegel WatkinsPart II4. Oral Contraceptives Women over Who Smoke: A Case Study in Risk Management and Risk Communications, 1960-1989Suzanne WhiteJunod5. Stimulants Not Just Naughty: Years of Stimulant Drug AdvertisingIlina Singh6. Tranquilizers Tranquilizers on Trial: Psychopharmacology in the Age of AnxietyAndrea TonePart III7. Statins The Abnormal and the Pathological: Cholesterol, Statins, and the Threshold of DiseaseJeremy A. Greene8. Viagra Making Viagra: From Impotence to Erectile DysfunctionJennifer R. FishmanAbout the Contributors Index
£59.50
New York University Press Medicating Modern America Prescription Drugs in
Book SynopsisExploring the rich and multi-faceted history of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States, Medicating Modern America unveils the untold stories behind America's pharmaceutical obsessionTrade ReviewA set of fascinating case studies. . . . Anyone who has taken prescription medications can benefit by reading it. * Metapsychology Online Reviews *A well-edited collection of eight timely and provocative essays about the key prescription drugs that have, for better or worse, helped shape American consumer culture and health since World War I. * Journal of the History of Medicine *These challenging essays mark the transformation of medication from a tradition of need assessed by physicians, to a culture that far exceeds a basic threshold for drugs on demand on the part of the public. * Choice *Nowhere do pharmaceutical companies sell more drugs, make more money, affect more lives, or wield more power than in the United States. These sophisticated but accessible essays trace the history of eight types of prescription blockbusters, from antibiotics to Viagra, and show how they have changed Americans thinking about disease, consumer rights, and normality itself. They force us to confront the paradox of a pill-taking society that wages war on some drugs but avidly seeks out others to economically profitable if not always therapeutically benign effect. -- David Courtwright,author of Forces of Habit and Dark ParadiseTheir excellent example of balanced analysis should inspire other scholars to pursue further work in the new pharmaceutical history. -- Gregory J. Higby * The Journal of American History *&;The most valuable role of Medicating Modern America is as a teaching text. There are currently very few texts available for undergraduate teachers that offer digestible and critical assessments of the role of prescription drugs in the history of twentieth-century biomedicine; Medical Modern Americaby providing a series of highly accessible and engaging analyses of prescriptions drugssuperbly fills this gap. * Social History of Medicine *Provides a series of highly accessible and engaging analyses of prescriptions drugs. * Social Hiistory of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel WatkinsPart I1. Antibiotics From Germophobia to the Carefree Life and Back Again: The Lifecycle of the Antibiotic BrandRobert Bud2. Mood Stabilizers Folie to Folly: The Modern Mania for Bipolar Disorders and Mood StabilizersDavid Healy3. Hormone Replacement "Educate Yourself": Consumer Information about Menopause and Hormone Replacement TherapyElizabeth Siegel WatkinsPart II4. Oral Contraceptives Women over Who Smoke: A Case Study in Risk Management and Risk Communications, 1960-1989Suzanne WhiteJunod5. Stimulants Not Just Naughty: Years of Stimulant Drug AdvertisingIlina Singh6. Tranquilizers Tranquilizers on Trial: Psychopharmacology in the Age of AnxietyAndrea TonePart III7. Statins The Abnormal and the Pathological: Cholesterol, Statins, and the Threshold of DiseaseJeremy A. Greene8. Viagra Making Viagra: From Impotence to Erectile DysfunctionJennifer R. FishmanAbout the Contributors Index
£23.74
New York University Press Inventing the 20th Century
Book SynopsisIt's the perfect gift book for every inventor and tinker in your life!"Remarkable ... get the book for yourself. It'll hold you for many hours." (Wall Street Journal)"A fascinating compendium for trivia seekers." (Publishers Weekly)>"Highly entertaining ... " (Boston Globe)Trade Review"Remarkable . . . get the book for yourself. It'll hold you for many hours." * Wall Street Journal *"Highly entertaining . . . In addition to being able to tell a good story, van Dulken . . . easily assembles complex ideas from chemistry and engineering and makes them palatable for the lay person. Van Dulken has assembled a panoramic snapshot of the century. By giving us a picture of our past, van Dulken also presents our future." * Boston Globe *"A fascinating compendium for trivia seekers." * Publishers Weekly *"A wonderful book" * L.A. Daily Breeze,Oct. 19, 2001 *"One more treasure trove for trivia addicts." * Herald-Republic *
£20.89
University of Arizona Press Calculating Brilliance
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£60.75
University of Minnesota Press Radiance from Halcyon
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As radiant as the utopian world it excavates, Paul Eli Ivey’s deeply researched and immensely original work provides an x-ray vision of an esoteric California on the edge of global Theosophy. Radiance from Halcyon is a mesmerizing tale of mystical kinship and communitarian experiments fusing architecture, landscape, music, and science that reverberate powerfully into the present." —Molly McGarry, author of Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century AmericaTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Organizing Theosophy in the United States2. The Emergence of the Temple Movement in Syracuse3. The Esoteric Temple of Humanity: Temple Theosophy and Occult Science4. Building Kinship: The Iroquois League and the Exoteric Work of the Temple5. Early Halcyon: The Temple Sets Its Foundations in the Golden West6. The Temple Home Association: A Cooperative Commonwealth7. An Architecture of Spiritual Forces: The Blue Star Memorial Temple8. Forces of Nature and the Electric Panacea: Healing at the Halcyon Sanatorium9. Dune Spirit, Harmony, and Dissonance: Music and Art at Halcyon10. The Avatar Arrives: Spiritual Fulfillment and Scientific AdvancementConclusionNotesIndex
£19.79
The University of Alabama Press André Michaux in North America
Book SynopsisKnown to today's biologists primarily as the “Michx”, at the end of more than 700 plant names, Andre Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, this book is the first complete English edition of Michaux's American journals.Trade ReviewMichaux is fascinating [but] largely unknown. All of the available works on Michaux are valuable for scholars seeking to understand him as well as the early environment of the South. [Yet] all have limitations.. The present effort—translations with annotations - will remedy the lack of a solid edition of Michaux's work.. The editors have done an excellent job in gathering material and presenting their work." - Kathryn E. Holland Braund, author of Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812"AndrÉ Michaux in North America brings together a wealth of material from the many worlds of early American natural history. This book is a massive undertaking, invaluable and sure to serve as a lasting resource on the transatlantic culture of scientific discovery." - Thomas Hallock, coeditor of Travels on the St. Johns River: John Bartram and William Bartra "In 1785, the great French botanist was sent to America as the official representative of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to obtain plants, especially trees, of the New World for the King's garden at Versailles. In 1794, he climbed Grandfather Mountain and wrote in his journal, 'Reached the summit of the highest mountain in North America and with my companion and guide, sang the Marseillaise and shouted "Long Live America and the Republic of France, long live Liberty! To Michaux, it was the top of the visible world and the perfect place to celebrate the triumph of freedom. Michaux was fascinated by the surrounding forest array of unique flora. Michaux's personal relationships with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington helped imbue him with a love of independence." - Text on museum display panel at Grandfather Mountain in North CarolinaTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by James E. McClellan III Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Biographical Sketch Chapter 1. Arrival in New York, November 1785, and Relocation to Charleston, September 1786 Chapter 2. Initial Journeys from Charleston, 1787 Chapter 3. Exploring Florida, 1788 Chapter 4. Exploring in the Carolinas, Georgia, and the Bahamas, 1788-1789 Chapter 5. Charleston to New York, 1789 Chapter 6. Charleston Interlude, 1790-1791 Chapter 7. Journey to Canada, 1792 Chapter 8. Journey into the Canadian Wilderness, 1792 Chapter 9. Philadelphia, Western Expeditions Considered, 1793 Chapter 10. Kentucky Journey for Genet, 1793 Chapter 11. North Carolina Mountains, 1794 Chapter 12. Journey West to the Mississippi River, 1795 Chapter 13. Kaskaskia to Charleston, December 1795-April 1796 Chapter 14. Charleston, Spring and Summer 1796 Chapter 15. Return Voyage to France and Shipwreck, August 1796-January 1797 Epilogue: Michaux's Last Years, 1797-1802 Appendix: Plant and Animal Indexes Notes Bibliography Index
£42.26
The University of Alabama Press Life Out of Balance
Book SynopsisTraces historical developments in physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the decades following World War II. Life Out of Balance focuses on a period in history when new ideas of self-regulation, adaptation, and fitness became central to a variety of biological disciplines.Trade ReviewThe idea of balance and directionality in ecological systems has a rich history, but usually not as well connected to the work of systematists and physiologists. The standard narrative for the mid-century period has been the rejection of physiological metaphors and superorganisms in favor of a Gleasonian ‘individualistic concept’, nicely tied to an origin story for evolutionary ecology as a discipline. Hagen brings a welcome corrective to that history by revealing the widespread and persistent appeal and use of the idea of homeostasis, across multiple fields." —William C. Kimler, associate professor of history at North Carolina State University"As a work of intellectual history or the history of scientific ideas, Life Out of Balance also draws on the archival record and on correspondence, bringing new and unfamiliar insights to a subject that should have been far more central in the history of the biological sciences." —Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, author of Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary BiologyTable of Contents List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Adaptation and the Wisdom of the Body Chapter 2. Bodily Wisdom or Stupidity? Chapter 3. Free and Independent Life Chapter 4. Living Water Chapter 5. Physiological Ecology from an Engineering Perspective Chapter 6. An Experimental Naturalist in the Laboratory and Field Chapter 7. Complexities of Thermoregulation Chapter 8. Physiological Teamwork, Homeostasis, and Coadaptation Chapter 9. Limits of Tolerance, Adaptation, and Speciation Chapter 10. Adaptation, Natural Selection, and Homeostatic Populations Chapter 11. Symbiosis and Coadaptation in Homeostatic Ecosystems Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£44.20
The University of Alabama Press Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science History Amer Science Technol
Book SynopsisNathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science is about an influential American scientist and educator.Trade ReviewResearched thoroughly and documented carefully... Livingstone's analysis of Shaler's writings will be useful to all interested in the broad connections among science, theology, and philosophy. - Scientist ""Livingstone judges Shaler's proper place in the advance of American science. From his post at Harvard, Shaler coached the development of geography and its extensions into geology, ecology, and anthropology throughout the last quarter of the 19th century, and Livingstone attempts to sort out what should properly be credited to Shaler on a playing field crowded with legendary scientists.... [F]or the historian of any of these subjects, this work may well prove a gold mine."" - Science Books and Film
£33.11
The University of Alabama Press To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism Southern
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA welcome contribution to the history of science in the South during the period since the Civil War.... By considering the academies in the larger context of scientific professionalism, South and North, Midgette has produced a surprisingly wide-ranging and informative study. This is overall a judicious and carefully researched work. The writing is straightforward and admirably clear, while the topic is effectively organized and presented. The book is a commendably original addition to local and regional history as well as history of American Science. - Journal of American History ""Midgette's study is thorough and well organized and should be consulted by anyone interested in American science and American higher education."" - Florida Historical Quarterly ""A very useful survey."" - Choice
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press The Species Maker
Book SynopsisAn historical novel about the role of science in modern life, set against the backdrop of the 1925 Scopes Trial. Although set a hundred years ago, The Species Maker wrestles with many issues that continue to confront scientists and science watchers in the present day.
£23.36
LUP - University of Georgia Press Deep Cut Science Power and the Unbuilt
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£33.98
Ohio University Press Healing Traditions African Medicine Cultural
Book SynopsisHealing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa’s traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa’s healthcare challenges.Trade Review“(Flint) should be applauded for her thorough analysis of a very complex subject during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when western biomedicine was asserting itself worldwide as the dominant profession.” * Journal of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Healing Traditions greatly illuminates the business of medicine within its colonial and postcolonial contexts…. Flint’s work not only offers an excellent model for comparative study; it also suggests that the situation in South Africa is just one important part of a world historical process of biomedical market expansion.” * Business History Review *“Flint’s work is of interest not only to historians of medicine, but also social-cultural historians working with topics as varied as witchcraft and professionalization…. Taken as a whole, the work demonstrates that the syncretic nature of the current South African medical environment results from almost 200 years of dynamic cultural exchange and competition.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Healing Traditions is a comprehensive work that substantially adds to our knowledge of how medicine and power have intertwined in South Africa over the past two hundred years.” * Technology and Culture *“An extremely timely book that will have immediate impact on the heated current debates across several fields of study, forming part of a new and exciting debate emerging around new South African history. The book has great potential to have a measurable impact on the teaching of medicine and health … and the various pathways to healing and health in our current HIV/AIDS pandemic.”“…lucid and detailed…. a vivid picture of the polyculturalism underlying African traditional medicine, and of the economic, social, and political history of a complex medical marketplace.” * American Historical Review *“A well-researched and argued book that contributes to the discussion over cultural imperialism by problematizing current ideas of biomedicine’s colonial hegemony.” * CHOICE *
£25.19
Ohio University Press The Experiment Must Continue
Book SynopsisThe Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian.Trade Review“Graboyes’ arguments are critical for contemporary researchers who must understand how the ‘residue’ of each experiment alters the course of the next. … [Her] book, which does not presume knowledge of the history and ethnography of medical research in Africa, is written in engaging and jargon-free prose. …[It] is certain to prompt lively classroom discussions about global health, African medical research in colonial and postcolonial times, and the history of medicine.” * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“[The Experiment Must Continue] will be of great interest to medical historians and anthropologists, East African historians, and global health researchers and bioethicists engaged in research in the Global South today … [The book] is to be applauded as a pathbreaking, engaging historical analysis of the practices, ethics, and implications of experimental medical research in one African postcolony.” * African Studies Review *“This is a remarkable contribution—scrupulously researched, innovatively organized, engagingly written, and passionately argued. To my knowledge, there is nothing published that can match the scope, temporal depth, or ethnographic finesse of this work. The manuscript is a superb example of how rigorous historical research opens up reflections on the unresolved ethical problems of contemporary global health research.”“Graboyes’s book reads like a mystery, elegantly weaving history, science, bioethics and public health into a compelling story. A profoundly important contribution to the challenges of conducting medical research in the developing world.”“Graboyes’ innovative approach pushes boundaries of conventional medical history, adds badly needed historical depth to ethnographies of medical research, and revitalizes bioethics thinking in an entertaining and accessible way. Her investigation of the ways medical research lingers in East Africa will contribute to historical and anthropological scholarship for years to come, and one hopes it will be read by ethicists and scientists as well.”“Graboyes has the gift of drawing the reader into small stories and then showing how these relate to wider practical and ethical dilemmas… [The Experiment Must Continue] has a strong central message and is beautifully crafted: a model of how to make the local stories come alive in a way that contributes to the painting of a much broader picture.” * Isis *“A beautiful ethnographic history of medical experiments in East Africa from the colonial period to the present. …Graboyes doesn’t just caution us to look to the past; she also persuades us to think about the future.” * Washington Post online *“With its grounded and spirited engagement with the practical ethics of research science, this book is a welcome contribution to the literature on the history and ethics of medical research.… [Graboyes] never allows the analysis to rest in the easy moral high ground of damning critique.…This is responsible and meaningful scholarship.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
£25.19
Ohio University Press The Riddle of Malnutrition The Long Arc of
Book SynopsisMore than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care.Trade Review“Tappan’s rich study explores how complex health issues in Africa and other regions of the global south have been falsely constructed as problems that can be easily addressed through the application of externally derived biomedical technologies. A must read for public health scholars and practitioners.”“Largely biomedical in orientation and located in the Global North, groups such as the World Heath Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and university research centers seek to remedy the health of the Global South through technological fixes with one-size-fits-all protocols. Tappan’s research … challenges the assumptions of global health on a number of fronts and shows the cost to public health when little regard is given to local culture, history, or autonomy…. Tappan’s work makes significant interventions to the emerging field of African historical epidemiology.” * American Historical Review *“This is a thoughtful and well-researched book on a subject that has remained outside the global health bubble. It tells the important story of capacity and local initiative, as Ugandan doctors, scientists and community health workers struggled to sustain primary health care against unbelievable odds.” * Social History of Medicine *“We try not to pick favorites in the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, but I’ve failed this year with this week’s book…Why was it my favorite? I’ve learned a lot and enjoyed reading all of the books in this summer’s series. But Tappan’s excellent and deeply researched book reads almost like a novel: At the end of each chapter, I needed to keep going to learn what happened next.…This book could change the way you think about health interventions.” * Washington Post online *“An incisive and sensitive portrayal of the real implications of the uneven generation of knowledge in East Africa. Tappan locates the history of nutrition not only in a succession of hypotheses tested on the bodies of Ugandan children, but in later community demonstration meals and in the willingness of researchers to recognize and reflect on the unintended consequences of their actions.”“By tracing the twists and turns in the epidemiology and treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda into the present, The Riddle of Malnutrition delivers an illuminating analysis of the relationship between scientific research and efforts to provide medical care in Africa over the last century.”
£56.95
Ohio University Press The Riddle of Malnutrition The Long Arc of
Book SynopsisMore than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care.Trade Review“Tappan’s rich study explores how complex health issues in Africa and other regions of the global south have been falsely constructed as problems that can be easily addressed through the application of externally derived biomedical technologies. A must read for public health scholars and practitioners.”“Largely biomedical in orientation and located in the Global North, groups such as the World Heath Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and university research centers seek to remedy the health of the Global South through technological fixes with one-size-fits-all protocols. Tappan’s research … challenges the assumptions of global health on a number of fronts and shows the cost to public health when little regard is given to local culture, history, or autonomy…. Tappan’s work makes significant interventions to the emerging field of African historical epidemiology.” * American Historical Review *“This is a thoughtful and well-researched book on a subject that has remained outside the global health bubble. It tells the important story of capacity and local initiative, as Ugandan doctors, scientists and community health workers struggled to sustain primary health care against unbelievable odds.” * Social History of Medicine *“We try not to pick favorites in the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, but I’ve failed this year with this week’s book…Why was it my favorite? I’ve learned a lot and enjoyed reading all of the books in this summer’s series. But Tappan’s excellent and deeply researched book reads almost like a novel: At the end of each chapter, I needed to keep going to learn what happened next.…This book could change the way you think about health interventions.” * Washington Post online *“An incisive and sensitive portrayal of the real implications of the uneven generation of knowledge in East Africa. Tappan locates the history of nutrition not only in a succession of hypotheses tested on the bodies of Ugandan children, but in later community demonstration meals and in the willingness of researchers to recognize and reflect on the unintended consequences of their actions.”“By tracing the twists and turns in the epidemiology and treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda into the present, The Riddle of Malnutrition delivers an illuminating analysis of the relationship between scientific research and efforts to provide medical care in Africa over the last century.”
£999.99
MP-AMM American Mathematical Poincare and the Three Body Problem
Book SynopsisThe idea of chaos figures prominently in mathematics. It arose in the work of one of the greatest mathematicians of the late 19th century, Henri Poincare, on a problem in celestial mechanics: the three body problem. This title opens with a discussion of the development of the three body problem itself and Poincare's related earlier work.Table of ContentsIntroduction Historical background Poincare's work before 1889 Oscar II's 60th birthday competition Poincare's memoir on the three body problem Reception of Poincare's memoir Poincare's related work after 1889 Associated mathematical activity Hadamard and Birkhoff Epilogue Appendices References Index.
£93.60
Duke University Press New Science New World
Book SynopsisExamines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century-modern science and colonialism. This work explores how the newness or 'novelty' of investigating nature is expressed through representations of the New World, including the native, the feminine, the body, and the heavens.Trade Review“New Science, New World breaks new ground in connecting literary form to the advent of modernity as manifested in scientific discourse and colonial exploration. This phenomenally learned book is a real intervention in early modern cultural studies.”—Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University“New Science, New World is a sophisticated account concerning the contradictory pressures at work in the production of modernity. The story of the relations between the scientific and the literary is an original one, and it is told with an elegance that is consistently persuasive.”—Catherine Belsey, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, CardiffTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Making It New: History and Novelty in Early Modern Culture 13 2. Admiring Miranda and Enslaving Nature 59 3. The New Atlantis and the Uses of Utopia 92 4. The Prosthetic Milton; Or, the Telescope and the Humanist Corpus 121 5. Galileo, "Literature," and the Generation of Scientific Universals 148 Conclusion: De Certeau and Early Modern Cultural Studies 186 Notes 193 Works Cited 225 Index 239
£76.50
Duke University Press The Monster in the Machine
Book SynopsisTracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning,' this title offers an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God.Trade Review“A well-researched, engagingly written, rich, and enlightening study.”—Deanna Shemek, author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy“This is a superlative and highly inventive piece of scholarship.”—Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, author of The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista VicoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Monstrous Matter Chapter 2: Monstrous Machines Chapter 3: Medicine and the Mechanical Body Chapter 4: Vico’s Monstrous Body Chapter 5: Monstrous Metaphor Afterword Notes Works Consulted Index
£76.50
