History of science Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Telling Genes
Book SynopsisDrawing from archival records, patient files, and oral histories, Stern presents the fascinating story of the growth of genetic counseling practices, principles, and professionals.Trade ReviewAny collection strong in genetic health will find this a winner. Midwest Book Review This book is an example of the best that history of science has to offer. Well written and exhaustively referenced, the work should be required reading for all students and faculty interested in modern medicine. Choice A fascinating study of the development of the concept and practice of genetic counseling in the United States since the early years of the twentieth century... Telling Genes is a very important contribution to the history of medical genetics and its clinical applications in the twentieth century. -- Garland E. Allen Journal of American History In this well written and important book, Stern addresses the history of genetic counseling, a profession that has undergone drastic changes during its short history, while still remaining under the 'shadow of eugenics'. -- Andrew J. Hogan Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Stern has once again demonstrated her uncommon ability to present complex information in an accessible form. -- Leslie Baker Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Genetic counselors likely all learn something about the history of our profession during graduate school. For those desiring to know more about our profession's origins and swift evolution, we now have Telling Genes... Telling Genes will appeal to more than just the history fanatics in our profession and is a perfect supplementary text for genetic counseling students. -- Meredith Sanders NSGC Perspectives A worthy standard by which other historical writing and claims about the field and practice of genetic counseling can be read. -- Stephen Pemberton Bulletin of the History of Medicine Telling Genes is an informative read for anyone interested in learning about the historical origins and growth of genetic counseling, the profession's important contributions to American medical care, and the ethical dilemmas that it must confront in the future. LSF Magazine Stern's impressively researched history of genetics practices in the United States... exposes the multifarious ways in which these practices have incorporated and promoted societal values. -- Barry Hoffmaster Hastings Center Report In this very readable exploration of the origins of genetic counseling, Alexandra Minna Stern makes an important contribution both to our understanding of the history of American medicine and also to the histories of eugenics and medical genetics. Using an accessible narrative style, Stern knits together archival materials, oral histories with key figures, medical publications, and photographs. -- Rachel A. Ankeny IsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. History: Genetic Counseling Develops2. Genetic Risk: An Evolving Calculus3. Race: Tense and Troubled Relations4. Disability: The Dynamics of Difference5. Women: Transforming Genetic Counseling6. Ethics: Shades of Gray in Genetic Counseling7. Prenatal Diagnosis: The Handmaiden of Contemporary Genetic CounselingConclusionAppendixesA. Archival Materials ConsultedB. IntervieweesC. Master's Degree Genetic Counseling Programs in North AmericaNotesIndex
£49.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Telling Genes
Book SynopsisDrawing from archival records, patient files, and oral histories, Stern presents the fascinating story of the growth of genetic counseling practices, principles, and professionals.Trade ReviewAny collection strong in genetic health will find this a winner. Midwest Book Review This book is an example of the best that history of science has to offer. Well written and exhaustively referenced, the work should be required reading for all students and faculty interested in modern medicine. Choice A fascinating study of the development of the concept and practice of genetic counseling in the United States since the early years of the twentieth century... Telling Genes is a very important contribution to the history of medical genetics and its clinical applications in the twentieth century. -- Garland E. Allen Journal of American History In this well written and important book, Stern addresses the history of genetic counseling, a profession that has undergone drastic changes during its short history, while still remaining under the 'shadow of eugenics'. -- Andrew J. Hogan Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Stern has once again demonstrated her uncommon ability to present complex information in an accessible form. -- Leslie Baker Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Genetic counselors likely all learn something about the history of our profession during graduate school. For those desiring to know more about our profession's origins and swift evolution, we now have Telling Genes... Telling Genes will appeal to more than just the history fanatics in our profession and is a perfect supplementary text for genetic counseling students. -- Meredith Sanders NSGC Perspectives A worthy standard by which other historical writing and claims about the field and practice of genetic counseling can be read. -- Stephen Pemberton Bulletin of the History of Medicine Telling Genes is an informative read for anyone interested in learning about the historical origins and growth of genetic counseling, the profession's important contributions to American medical care, and the ethical dilemmas that it must confront in the future. LSF Magazine Stern's impressively researched history of genetics practices in the United States... exposes the multifarious ways in which these practices have incorporated and promoted societal values. -- Barry Hoffmaster Hastings Center Report In this very readable exploration of the origins of genetic counseling, Alexandra Minna Stern makes an important contribution both to our understanding of the history of American medicine and also to the histories of eugenics and medical genetics. Using an accessible narrative style, Stern knits together archival materials, oral histories with key figures, medical publications, and photographs. -- Rachel A. Ankeny IsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. History: Genetic Counseling Develops2. Genetic Risk: An Evolving Calculus3. Race: Tense and Troubled Relations4. Disability: The Dynamics of Difference5. Women: Transforming Genetic Counseling6. Ethics: Shades of Gray in Genetic Counseling7. Prenatal Diagnosis: The Handmaiden of Contemporary Genetic CounselingConclusionAppendixesA. Archival Materials ConsultedB. IntervieweesC. Master's Degree Genetic Counseling Programs in North AmericaNotesIndex
£22.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Godor Gorilla
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. The 1920s shaped pictures of evolution, and of evolutionary debate, that are still in our heads. As biologists work with illustrators to communicate science, and creationists attack textbook icons, it is helpful to reflect on the struggles of that decisive decade. -- Nick Hopwood Nature 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 A shining example of interdisciplinary American Studies at its very best. Choice 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 Perceptive and enjoyable book. -- Warren D. Allmon American Paleontologist 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 The value of this book, which is considerable, lies in its careful depiction of the scientific and cultural landscape within which the 'evolution wars' of the 1920s took place. -- A. Bowdoin Van Riper Isis Clark's choice of the 1920s is perfectly suited for her brilliant study of evolutionary imagery, for the decade saw significant social, economic and political changes along with growing tensions over the question of where humans came from. British Journal for the History of Science Clark's study offers a novel perspective of the history of human evolutionary research and popular culture and is a valuable contribution to scholarship in this area. -- Matthew R. Goodrum Annals of Science A refreshing picture of the origins of the evolution-creation dispute, and in it we can see the germ of the outlooks and arguments that largely still motivate creationism today. -- Rudolf A. Raff Evolution & Development An exceedingly interesting contribution to the history of anthropology. -- Jonathan Marks American Ethnologist Clark's study has additional significance as a contribution to intellectual history. Readers will find familiar themes of evolution-natural selection, chance and design, and missing links-and the book shows the fate of these issues when they entered the public arena. -- J. David Hoeveler History: Reviews of New BooksTable 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
£22.50
Johns Hopkins University Press The Inevitable Hour
Book SynopsisA frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.Trade ReviewA powerful assessment of medicine's involvement with death and dying: a history highly recommended for any medical or ethical issues holding. Midwest Book Review Few libraries specializing in the history of medicine will not find this a valuable book to include in their collections. Watermark This is an important book that sets current debates over end-of-life care in their historical context, and reminds readers of the numerous historical decisions that shape the current situation. Choice Abel's book is a strong and welcome addition to the historiography of death and dying. Journal of American History An invaluable contribution. Abel does an admirable job uncovering a topic that was mostly absent in the medical literature. She successfully highlights a striking consequence of medicine's curative paradigm while also recovering the vital work that family and faith performed to fill the gap left by medical professionals in the twentieth century. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Lively and engaging. The Inevitable Hour offers a sensitive, patient-centered view of end-of-life experiences. Abel's gift for biography, of both the eminent and the obscure, provides a glimpse into a rich yet private world. It makes an important contribution to American medical history and to our understanding of human responses to suffering and adversity. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Through her in-depth analyses of hundreds of letters, articles, and books from the mid-eighteenth century to 1965 in the United States, the author of this book provides a very sobering and enlightening perspective on the perennial challenge of caring for the dying and the history of medical science's own avoidance of it even while trying to treat it. Historian The US way of dying is costly, conflicted, and confused, and apparently has long been so, according to Emily Abel's deeply researched and carefully argued The Inevitable Hour ... The book is richly researched with an impressive range of documentation. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Emily Abel's thoroughly researched book steps into [a] broad historical narrative and gives context, detail, and definition. Reviews in American History While the work's narrative structure makes it ideal to read as a whole, each chapter could be excerpted in both upper- and lower-level classes in history, health policy, bioethics and religion. The work's accessible style makes it accommodating to undergraduates and laypeople, while its rigorous, inventive methods and ambitious claims ensure its value for scholars... Ultimately, Abel's book is of great importance to not only historical scholarship but also contemporary bioethics and health policy. -- Harold Braswell Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Good Death at Home2. Medical Professionals (Sometimes) Step In3. Cultivating Detachment, Sidetracking Care4. Institutionalizing the Incurable5. "All Our Dread and Apprehension"6. "Nothing More to Do"7. A Place to Die8. The Sacred and the SpiritualConclusionNotesIndex
£21.38
Johns Hopkins University Press Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers
Book SynopsisHow rabid dogs, the struggles to contain them, and their power over the public imagination intersected with New York City's rise to urban preeminence. Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of Mad dog! possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization. Focusing on a transformative era in medicine, politics, and urban society, Wang uses rabies to survey urban social geography, the place of domesticated animals in the nineteenth-century city, and the world of American medicine. Rabies, she demonstrates, provides an ideal vehicle for exploring physicians' ideas about therapeutics, disease pathology, and the body as well as the global flows of knowledge and therapeutics. Beyond the medical realmTrade ReviewJessica Wang's account of rabies in New York during the years between 1840 and 1920 describes the terror of this disease and the introduction of prophylaxis against it. Wang recognizes that we must understand infectious diseases both as products of biological agents as well as social events shaped by human emotions, experiences, disruptions, and institutional interventions, public and private. She nicely parses concepts of disease-identity as they changed over time, from early-nineteenth-century ideas about poisons to the emergence of germ theory in the final decades of the century.—Margaret Humphreys, MetascienceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Dogs, Humans, and the Uses of Urban SpaceChapter 2. Human and Non-Human Suffering: From Animal Possession to the Art of DyingChapter 3. Remedies and Materia Medica: Medical Authority, Political Culture, and EmpireChapter 4. The Lesion of Doom: Anatomical Tradition and the Problem of HydrophobiaChapter 5. A Tale of Three Laboratories: Rabies Vaccination and the Pasteurization of New York CityChapter 6. Dogs and the Making of the American State: The Politics of Animal ControlConclusionAppendix 1. Reports of Dog Bite Victims and Hydrophobia Deaths in the Greater New York City AreaAppendix 2. A Note on Primary Sources and MethodsNotesIndex
£42.75
Johns Hopkins University Press Anxiety
Book SynopsisAs Horwitz explores the history and multiple identities of anxiety-melancholia, nerves, neuroses, phobias, and so on-it becomes clear that every age has had its own anxieties and that culture plays a role in shaping how anxiety is expressed.Trade ReviewAn enlightening tour of anxiety, set at a sensible pace, with an exceptional scholar and writer leading the way. Library Journal What is fascinating about this book is less the facts it presents than its ambiguities: anxiety will always force us to question the lines between the normal and the disordered, nervousness and depression, fears and pathologies. Publishers Weekly Horwitz gives us some history and some insights to allay our fears about anxiety. And in helping us to understand anxiety, he opens new doors to coping with it as a chronic condition. -- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Horwitz provides and ambitious book about anxiety with impressive breadth and depth in a very readable 161 pages... As a sociologist, I would incorporate Anxiety: A Short History into undergraduate or graduate courses on health and illness, mental health, or emotion. This book would also be quite valuable in a wide range of psychology, history, and other social science courses. And, as it is a very accessible yet intellectual book, a savvy reader with an interest in anxiety would enjoy it tremendously. -- Jennifer J. Esala PsycCRITIQUES Horwitz... provides a historical account of the universal phenomenon of anxiety in this extremely interesting book... In this expansive treatment (for such a small book), Horwitz reminds readers of the importance of distinguishing between normal and pathological anxiety. Choice Horwitz's touch is light and ironical and his scholarship impeccable, and the book is thoroughly to be recommended as a disease biography that gives the whole trajectory and leaves little of importance out. It is a book to be savored by disease buffs. -- Edward Shorter Bulletin of the History of Medicine Any new students or practitioners to mental health would benefit from this book. -- Ibadete Fetahu Nursing Times ... the definitive overview of the history of anxiety. -- Edward Shorter Bulletin of the History of Medicine Allan V. Horwitz's Anxiety: A Short History is a lucid, erudite and brisk intellectual history driven by a clear and persuasive central argument. -- David Herzberg Social History of Medicine This short book achieves its aims, neatly narrating the chronology of anxiety over various contexts. It also offers a good introduction to those wanting to know more about the history of anxiety and should prove to be a useful addition to the sociology of mental health, especially in relation to teaching and the development of scholarship in this important area. -- Esmee Hanna Sociology of Health and Illness Anxiety is fundamental to the human condition, an important component of who we are. With us for two millennia and more, it continues with us today, sanitized, medicalized, and highly prevalent. This book does a good job of explaining how that has occurred and the continuity of anxiety over time... [ Anxiety] is an excellent book, which I recommend. -- Lloyd W. Wells Metapsychology A highly readable and engaging book in the style of a biography. Science and MedicineTable of ContentsForeword, by Charles E. RosenbergAcknowledgments1. Afraid2. Classical Anxiety3. From Medicine to Religion—and Back4. The Nineteenth Century's New Uncertainties5. The Freudian Revolution6. Psychology's Ascendance7. The Age of Anxiety8. The Future of AnxietyNotesIndex
£22.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy.Trade ReviewThis book is brave and insightful and succeeds in raising the possibility that cultural histories of health must acknowledge the distinct vocabulary and sociocultural definitions that are inherent to specific disease states. It is full of potential leads and insights, reference and analysis that will be consulted time and time again. -- Paul Weindling Science Weisz shows beautifully that concern with chronic diseases is hardly new. -- Bill Bynum Lancet This is a valuable resource for all academic professionals in the health field, especially those in public policy. Choice This is a valuable study. It is the first long overview of the emergence of one of the most significant health policy issues in modern times. Chronic Illness As this book shows, chronic disease has long been neglected, by both health care systems and historians. Weisz took up the challenge of writing the history of a diffuse and undramatic concept, and has done it well. -- David Jones Global Public Health The recent globalisation of 'chronic disease' serves to demonstrate the importance of Weisz's book not just for historians of medicine, but for policy makers and practitioners too. By highlighting the constructed nature of 'chronic disease' Weisz draws attention to the political foundations of a category too often taken for granted. Crisply written, clearly structure, and presenting a wealth of detail without ever overwhelming, this is sure to become a classic text. -- Alex Mold Social History of Medicine The book is scholarly, builds on the work of prominent thinkers in the field such as Daniel Fox, and provides new insights on the history of American health care. Gesnerus Weisz has produced an intriguing and original argument that will be of great interest to historians of health care and health care policy, in both national and international contexts. IsisTable of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Chronic Disease in the United States1. "National Vitality" and Physical Examination2. Expanding Public Health3. Almshouses, Hospitals, and the Sick Poor4. New Deal Politics and the National Health Survey5. Mobilizing against Chronic Illness at Midcentury6. Long-Term Care7. Public Health and PreventionPart II: Chronic Disease in the United Kingdom and France8. Health, Wealth, and the State9. Alternative Paths in the United Kingdom10. Maladies chroniques in FranceEpilogueNotesIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Aging Bones
Book SynopsisThe fascinating history in Aging Bones will appeal to students and scholars in the history of medicine, health policy, gerontology, endocrinology, and orthopedics, as well as anyone who has been diagnosed with osteoporosis.Trade ReviewA well-written and compelling book that should convince academic, student, lay and professional audiences alike that immersion in the history of a disease is indispensable to treating it. Social History of Medicine [ Aging Bones] illustrate[s] the disparate yet powerful components of chronic disease for understanding medical practices and policies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Grob's account is well written, clear and comprehensive in scope...should prove useful to any historian of medicine and will be especially valuable to historians interested in gerontology and women's health. IsisTable of ContentsForeword, by Charles E. RosenbergPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. History and Demography2. The Origins of a Diagnosis3. The Transformation of Osteoporosis4. Popularizing a Diagnosis5. Internationalizing Osteoporosis6. Therapeutic Expansion7. Osteoporosis Triumphant?NotesIndex
£20.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Generic
Book SynopsisGreene's history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care.Trade ReviewGreene's brilliant book is the first full-length monograph to trace the history of how Americans think about generics, and it is going to be the key reference for many years to come. Somatosphere An excellent and recommended history of how the generic drug market came to be. Library Journal Fascinating and thought-provoking. History Wire: Where the Past Comes Alive Dr. Greene's gripping and eye-opening accounts of the scientific, social, and political debates that happened along the way keep the reader hooked and engaged... [He] is both scholar and storyteller, interspersing fascinating historical narratives with complex scientific discussion. P&T Community Greene should be congratulated for bringing this subject to life-with a mix of anecdote, scholarship, and elegant prose. Lancet As Jeremy Greene lays out in his excellent book, the story of the generic drug industry is is far more complicated-and far more interesting than most of us might guess... [Greene] provides readers with a useful framework for understanding how we got to where we are and how we might apply the lessons of the past to the challenges we face today. Health Affairs Greene turns the concept of generic as 'ho-hum' on its head with this jam-packed survey of the effects culture, medicine, and politics have exerted on today's ubiquitous generic drugs for the last 50 years. Publishers Weekly Jeremy Greene's Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine fascinates because the very meaning of the key term 'generic' is so unstable. Every time the reader thinks they have a handle on its dimensions, another four open up. -- Joseph Dumit Somatosphere Greene's book is a dizzying historical-political-social-cultural account of the forms generic drugs have taken over past several decades. Somatosphere Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine comes from a physician and historian who offers a history of not just the development of generic drugs, but how they differ from the original. Within his examination are important insights on how drugs are made, what parts of a pill really matter, issues of therapeutic similarity and difference, and more. It's a wide-ranging history that embraces ethical, scientific, health, and economic issues and it provides insights on the history of generic drugs in America and the problems associated with scientific and medical changes in the public eye. The result is a survey that belongs in any health collection and many a general-interest holding. The Midwest Book Review This fine, stimulating, and entertaining book offers much food for thought. -- Nicolas Rasmussen Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Well written and informative... bring[s] to life a tangled web of competing interests. -- Phillip Broadwith Chemistry World A theoretical and empirical primer that explains the success and failure of generics and what it means to choose between generic and brand name drugs. Extensively researched and documented, Generic is the first book to chronicle the development of generics, and will probably be the key reference on the topic for some time... A book that should be read by anybody with a serious interest in contemporary healthcare. -- Debra Swoboda Sociology of Health and Illness The generic drug industry... has been glorified as the antidote to exorbitant drug prices, and vilified as the purveyor of poisonous (or at least less effective) counterfeit drugs. Yet in Generic, Jeremy Greene has a far more nuanced, and far more interested, tale to tell... Greene's vitally important book... explicitly asks us to consider how much the tensions concerning times and places examined in the book are the same as those we face today... or at least similar enough in ways that we should find relevant. The answer is, very much. -- Scott H. Podolsky Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Physician/historian Greene provides a thoroughly researched discussion about generic products derived from innovative or brand-name drugs, focusing on their "social, political, and cultural history"... Greene ably argues for generic by providing inside details about the drug approval process. Choice ... Generic is an excellent example of how to intelligently construct a modern material history, grounded in the logics of the everyday. Medical Anthropology Quarterly ... recommended reading for anyone interested in postwar developments in U.S. health care and for scholars and analysts of contemporary pharmaceutical politics. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Greene's book is a pioneering work. His study is particularly relevant for historians of medicine and health but will be of interest for readers from history and sociology of science, as well as other social scientists who specialize in drug regulation. IsisTable of ContentsPreface to the 2016 EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Same but Not the SamePart I. What's in a Name?Chapter 1. Ordering the World of CuresChapter 2. The Generic as Critique of the BrandPart II. No Such Thing as a Generic Drug?Chapter 3. Drugs AnonymousChapter 4. Origins of a Self- Effacing IndustryChapter 5. Generic SpecificityPart III. The Sciences of SimilarityChapter 6. Contests of EquivalenceChapter 7. The Significance of DifferencesPart IV. Laws of SubstitutionChapter 8. Substitution as Vice and VirtueChapter 9. Universal ExchangePart V. Paradoxes of Generic ConsumptionChapter 10. Liberating the Captive ConsumerChapter 11. Generic Consumption in the Clinic, Pharmacy, and SupermarketPart VI. The Generic AlternativeChapter 12. Science and Politics of the "Me- Too" DrugChapter 13. Preferred Drugs, Public and PrivateChapter 14. The Global GenericConclusion. The Crisis of SimilarityList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Science Unshackled
Book SynopsisThe next time someone asks you why the government wastes its money on weird research, recall the intriguing stories James has told and tell them the answer.Trade ReviewCelebration of ingenuity and the scientific process... filled with troves of examples of how scientific research can transform our lives in important yet often unpredictable ways. -- Sid Perkins Science News Possessing a talent for crisp analogies that elucidate complex scientific concepts, the author elaborates on five examples in clear, easily digestible prose. ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Finding Ourselves1. A Brief History of Timing2. Going with the Flow3. From Principia to Principe4. The Attraction of Time5. Fine-tuning Our Clocks6. Around the World in 80 Hours (Give or Take)Part II: Identity Crisis7. One Strand8. Two Strands9. The First Rungs of the Ladder10. Interchangeable Pieces11. Igniting the Fuse12. Breaking Down, Building Up13. A Curious Boy14. Copycat15. Molecule of the Year16. The Genetic Bread MachinePart III: Finding a Hot Spot17. A Universal "Hot Spot"18. Classic Black19. A Tunnel to Oblivion20. Chasing Wild Geese21. Going Wireless22. Where Credit Is Due23. Anatomy of a Successful FailurePart IV: Pick Your Poison24. Desperate Times, Desperate Measures25. Barking up the Right Tree26. The Inside Story on Pain27. A Bitter Sting28. A Simple Question29. The Gift of the MagusPart V: Dreaming of the Star Treatment30. Ingredients of the Stars31. The Sun's Secret Recipe32. Reading between the Lines33. Through a Star Darkly34. The Opacity Project35. The Iron Lady and the Gold Standard36. Therapy of the StarsAfterwordReferencesIndex
£20.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Killer Apes Naked Apes and Just Plain Nasty
Book SynopsisClearly written, conversational, and rationally argued, this book promotes sound and careful research while skewering the bogus ideological assertions that have been used to justify colonialism, slavery, gender discrimination, neoliberal economic policies, and the general status quo.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionThere's a History HereWhat's in a Word?1. Don't Get Me StartedHumans and "Nature"It Wasn't Always about BiologyBut Maybe They Really Are Different!It's All Uphill from HereRomantic SupremacyPhilosophical BiologyBiological Stories2. EugenicsThe Right Sorts of PeopleWhat's to Be Done?Parasites and PestsManipulating BiologyThe Gift of IQBoas and "Fixed Traits"Out with Eugenics, for Now; but We Still Have IQ!3. Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty PeopleEnter the Killer Ape . . .. . . Followed by the Naked Ape . . .. . . Followed by Nasty PeopleIt Gets WorseA Serious Flaw in the ArgumentI Know, but It Still Seems RealBack to Eugenics4. Mind GamesSocial Programs? Not So FastSeeing DoubleWait— What Were Those Scores Again?You Say Heritability, I Say Inheritance—Let's Call the Whole Thing OffLet's Get That Social Ranking StraightNothing If Not PersistentTwins, Again!Hot Air from Canada and from across the PondEveryone Needs a Friend5. Sociobiology"Go to the Ant, Thou Sluggard. Consider Her Ways and Be Wise"Edward, Have You Met Herbert?Quiet . . . I Think the Genes Are up to SomethingWhat's Good for the GooseWait . . . Are We Still Doing Science?Pull Up a Chair; It's Story TimeThe Generic "Primitive"Americans and BritsA Genetic Guide to Behavior6. And Yet Another New Science of the Same Old ThingIt Blinded Them with ScienceIt Takes a VillageMaking the Exotic Familiar, and the Familiar GeneticWaltz of the PseudohypothesesWhat's with the Big Brain, Anyway?What, Indeed?7. That's Just about Enough of That"When Wild in the Woods the Noble Savage Ran"Steven— You Look as If You've Seen a GhostCalm Down; It's Only an AbstractionAre You Still Here?What's the Big Deal?What's the Score So Far?Some Things We Do Know about the PleistoceneGoing Off ScriptBattle of the Sexes?A Word about Ethnography8. It's Not That SimpleSo What's the Alternative?Ah, TraditionSomehow It All Fits9. What's the Agenda?Solutions That Cause ProblemsThe Beat Goes OnReflections on the Mystique of ScienceNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex
£19.47
Johns Hopkins University Press Weekend Pilots
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly book to examine in detail the role of masculinity in aviation, Weekend Pilots adds new dimensions to our understanding of embedded gender and its long-term effects.Trade ReviewAlan Meyer's Weekend Pilots serves as a crucial guide to private aviation's intimidating world of insider references, technical jargon, and showmanship for both the uninitiated and aviation aficionado...This book [is] impressively instructive and accessible to nonpilots...[and] an enjoyable and engaging read. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Who Is "Mr. General Aviation"? The Origins and Demographics of Postwar Private Flying2. Shouting, Shirttails, and Spins3. The Family Car of the Air versus the Pilot's Airplane4. The "Right Stuff" Syndrome5. Hog Wallow Airports, Hangar Flying, and Hundred-Dollar Hamburgers6. Gendered CommunitiesConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£35.10
Johns Hopkins University Press FastLane
Book SynopsisSince 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer reviews, and reporting. In this behind-the-scenes account Thomas J. Misa and Jeffrey R. Yost examine how powerful forces of science and computing came together to create this influential grant-management system, assessing its impact on cutting-edge scientific research. Why did the NSF create FastLane, and how did it anticipate the development of web-based e-commerce? What technical challenges did the glitch-prone early system present? Did the switch to electronic grant proposals disadvantage universities with fewer resources? And how did the scientific community help shape FastLane? Foregrounding the experience of computer users, the book draws on hundreds of interviews with scientific researchers, sponsored project administrators, NSF staff, and software designers, developers, and managers.Table of ContentsPreface1. Managing Science2. Origins of E-Government3. Developing a New System4. Principal Investigators as Lead Users5. Research Administrators as Lead Users6. NSF Staff as Legacy Users7. Legacies, Lessons, and ProspectsAppendix A. University Site VisitsAppendix B. Interview Summary StatisticsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press Engineering Victory
Book SynopsisHe reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war's outcome.Trade ReviewA thoughtful treatise on an important subject related to war, culture, and society, Engineering Victory is a highly recommended reading. Civil War Books and Authors Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Choice Army's description of Union Army engineers and their accomplishments is certainly thorough and impressive. he relates numerous examples of how the effective use of engineers led to victory while an ineffective application led to defeat. The Michigan Historical Review Thomas Army Jr. has produced an interesting and thought-provoking study of military engineering in the Civil War with which students of the war, logistics, and technology will have to reckon. Civil War Book Review This intriguing book illuminates much about markets and, particularly, about the "culture of the market" as financial capitalism began its will to power in America. Civil War Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart II The Education and Management Gap1. Common School Reform and Science Education2. Mechanics' Institutes and Agricultural Fairs3. Building the RailroadsPart II4. Wanted: Volunteer Engineers5. Early Successes and Failures6. McClellan Tests His Engineers7. The Birth of the United States Military Railroad8. Summer–Fall 1862Part III9. Vicksburg10. Gettysburg11. Chattanooga12. The Red River and Petersburg13. Atlanta and the Carolina CampaignsConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Righting America at the Creation Museum
Book SynopsisThis compelling book reveals that the Creation Museum is a remarkably complex phenomenon, at once a natural history museum at odds with contemporary science, an extended brief for the Bible as the literally true and errorless word of God, and a powerful and unflinching argument on behalf of the Christian right.Trade ReviewThe material unfolds engagingly because the Trollingers confront and rebut pseudoscientific zealotry...so readers emerge from our deep exposure to this culture feeling triumphant, sane, as we align with the authors in the camp of science and reason. Times Higher Education [T]he most compelling elements of the book focus on the history, evolution and construction of the museum as a cultural space and then explore how the Creation Museum fits into that history. ...As the Trollingers show repeatedly, Creationism has evolved a posture that steadfastly sidesteps any kind of serious debate. ...The book is at its best when it situates the Creation Museum within the longer history of how we present objects and organize knowledge. Los Angeles Times More than a tour, Righting America at the Creation Museum is about as thorough and detailed a text-based analysis of the Creation Museum as anyone could want. This book is a perceptive critical analysis of the museum's purposes, methods, and potential impact. Free InquiryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Museum2. Science3. Bible4. Politics5. JudgmentEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex
£21.60
Johns Hopkins University Press The Age of Analogy
Book SynopsisThe first comparative treatment of the Darwins' theories of history and their profound contribution to the study of both natural and human systems, this book will fascinate students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature and the history of science.Trade ReviewThis is a serious, detailed, and convincing account with few unexplored avenues... Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. Choice Recommended. Choice The Age of Analogy represents a valuable contribution to scholarship on literature and science. Building on the established models of new historicism and of Gillian Beer's foundational work on Darwinism, it nonetheless offers something new by asking researchers in this field to think more carefully about the kinds of historicism that operate both in their own work and in nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing Review of English Studies For those interested in either of the intertwined histories of literature and science -- or in what we might more generously call the intellectual culture of the 1780s through the 1850s -- Griffiths' book is both readable and richly rewarding. Review 19 This ambitious work should shape future thinking about historicism, science and literature in the nineteenth century and beyond in new and significant ways. Griffiths deserves to be congratulated on having achieved this and, in the process, on having written some of the best recent criticism on Charles Darwin and George Eliot in particular, which is no mean feat in itself. British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Science, Literature, and History2. The New Historicism3. Thinking through Analogy4. Implications for Comparative Historicism5. Summary of ChaptersPrelude: Thinking Through Analogy1. Analogy vs. Comparison2. Harmonic vs. Formal Analogy3. Analogy and the "swerve around the literary"4. The Sign of AnalogyChapter 1: Erasmus Darwin, Enlightenment History, and the Crisis of AnalogyI. The Loves of the Plants and Sexual Taxonomy2. Stadial History and The Botanic Garden3. The "Fertilization of Egypt" and the Flattening of Allegory4. Expulsion from the Garden: Zoonomia and Darwin's Fall from GraceConclusion: "Philosophical Arguments of the Last Generation"Chapter 2: Crossing the Border with Walter Scott1. The Subject of Enlightenment History2. The Forensic Antiquary3. Faking the Minstrelsy4. Linguistic Anthropology in Ivanhoe and Waverley Conclusion: "So Leyden were alive"Chapter 3: Incorporate History in Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H.1. Analogical Verses2. Hallam's Perfect Danae3. The Logic of Analogy and the Plurality of Worlds4. Comparative Anatomy and the ArchetypeConclusion: The Higher TypeChapter 4: George Eliot and False History1. The Westminster Review and the "historic imagination"2. The "Higher Criticism" and the Natural History of Social Life3. Rosamond's Harmonic Sympathy4. The Entangled Word: Eliot's Essays and the Problem of Organic FormConclusion: Origins and Historiographic FormChapter 5: The Origin of Darwin's Orchids and the Intent of Comparative History1. A Comparative Natural History: The Analogy Notebooks 2. Curating Analogy in On the Origin of Species3. "A working collection of books": Darwin and the Novels4. Orchids in Action5. Flat TheologyConclusion: Epitaphs for DarwinCoda: Climate Science and The "No-Analog Future"NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Inevitable Hour
Book SynopsisA frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.Trade ReviewA powerful assessment of medicine's involvement with death and dying: a history highly recommended for any medical or ethical issues holding. Midwest Book Review Few libraries specializing in the history of medicine will not find this a valuable book to include in their collections. Watermark This is an important book that sets current debates over end-of-life care in their historical context, and reminds readers of the numerous historical decisions that shape the current situation. Choice Abel's book is a strong and welcome addition to the historiography of death and dying. Journal of American History An invaluable contribution. Abel does an admirable job uncovering a topic that was mostly absent in the medical literature. She successfully highlights a striking consequence of medicine's curative paradigm while also recovering the vital work that family and faith performed to fill the gap left by medical professionals in the twentieth century. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Lively and engaging. The Inevitable Hour offers a sensitive, patient-centered view of end-of-life experiences. Abel's gift for biography, of both the eminent and the obscure, provides a glimpse into a rich yet private world. It makes an important contribution to American medical history and to our understanding of human responses to suffering and adversity. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Through her in-depth analyses of hundreds of letters, articles, and books from the mid-eighteenth century to 1965 in the United States, the author of this book provides a very sobering and enlightening perspective on the perennial challenge of caring for the dying and the history of medical science's own avoidance of it even while trying to treat it. Historian The US way of dying is costly, conflicted, and confused, and apparently has long been so, according to Emily Abel's deeply researched and carefully argued The Inevitable Hour ... The book is richly researched with an impressive range of documentation. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Emily Abel's thoroughly researched book steps into [a] broad historical narrative and gives context, detail, and definition. Reviews in American History While the work's narrative structure makes it ideal to read as a whole, each chapter could be excerpted in both upper- and lower-level classes in history, health policy, bioethics and religion. The work's accessible style makes it accommodating to undergraduates and laypeople, while its rigorous, inventive methods and ambitious claims ensure its value for scholars... Ultimately, Abel's book is of great importance to not only historical scholarship but also contemporary bioethics and health policy. -- Harold Braswell Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Good Death at Home2. Medical Professionals (Sometimes) Step In3. Cultivating Detachment, Sidetracking Care4. Institutionalizing the Incurable5. "All Our Dread and Apprehension"6. "Nothing More to Do"7. A Place to Die8. The Sacred and the SpiritualConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Our Germans Project Paperclip and the National
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThrough participant vignettes, historian Crim provides insight into early Cold War decision-making in this well-documented, microhistorical, dissertation-like expose of Project Paperclip. Highly recommended.—ChoiceA very fine account concerning the internal dynamics of the Paperclip program, providing a more nuanced evaluation than has hitherto been available.—H-Net ReviewsAt a time when drones, cyberweapons, and other high technology continue to substitute for coherent foreign policy, Crim's book is a sober reminder of the moral hazards of a technocratic national security state.—Journal of American HistoryWhat distinguishes Our Germans is its emphasis on the role of the specialists in the emerging national security state of the early Cold War, where Project Paperclip 'exacerbated the growing rift between the State Department and an ascendant national security bureaucracy' (99). But most importantly, Our Germans is a much-needed update and expansion of Clarence Lasby's 1971 Project Paperclip: German Scientists and the Cold War.—American Historical ReviewIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the US government recruited hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including the designers of the V2 rocket, to staff American agencies and companies under the so-called Paperclip programme. Crim draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the history of the programme and the controversies it provoked.—International Institute for Strategic StudiesTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Aristocracy of Evil2. Implements of Progress3. Conscientious Objectors4. Their Germans5. Paperclip VindicatedEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Instrumental Intimacy
Book SynopsisA critical examination of the rise of wearable EEG monitors. From Fitbits to GPS trackers, wearables promise to help us understand and improve ourselves in quantified ways. We count our steps, track our location, and even monitor our brain waves as we strive to achieve better fitness, clearer direction, or a more focused mind. But why do we rely on wearables to learn about ourselves? In Instrumental Intimacy, Melissa M. Littlefield questions our desire for mechanistic guidance by examining brain-based EEG wearables that promise to improve sleep, relationships, self-knowledge, and learning. Littlefield focuses specifically on EEGs' transition out of the laboratory and into the hands of consumers. While other brain-imaging technologies (such as MRI, PET, and MEG) are used only in specialized laboratories, human electroencephalography (a.k.a. EEG) is embedded in portable, user-friendly devices. These direct-to-consumer wearables visualize brain activity as accessible data, and many offeTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Public Displays of Arousal2. In the Zone3. ‘Sleeping seems to be such a natural thing’4. Neurogeography and the CityConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi Mathematician
Book SynopsisThe fascinating true story of mathematician Maria Agnesi. She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair of mathematics at the university in Bologna. In later years, however, she became a prominent figure within the Catholic Enlightenment, gave up academics, and devoted herself to the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the homeless. Indeed, the life of Maria Agnesi reveals a complex and enigmatic figureone of the most fascinating characters in the history of mathematics. Using newly discovered archival documents, Massimo Mazzotti reconstructs the wide spectrum of Agnesi's social experience and examines her relationships to various traditionsreligious, political, social, and mathematical. This meTrade ReviewMazzotti's text is many things: well written, historically detailed, and descriptive. What stands out is his depiction of Maria Gaetana Agnesi as humble, kind, and mathematically talented.—ConvergenceA welcome contribution to both an understanding of Maria Agnesi and life in the 1700s.—ChoiceA nuanced and well-documented historical narrative that restores to us a key personage in eighteenth-century science and spirituality, combining cultural and political history with the history of the family.—Catholic Historical ReviewMazzotti's book succeeds admirably in pushing beyond this summary judgment—the same that judges her curve 'insignificant'—to find in Agnesi's approach to mathematics a way to open a whole world of eighteenthcentury life and thought that supported her choices.—IsisMazzotti’s account of the rise and fall of a relatively non-gendered intellectual environment in the early eighteenth century thus sheds light on a rare instance in which the Catholic Church actually advocated women’s equality. The strangeness of that phenomenon alone renders his work an interesting addition to the history of science.—British Journal for the History of ScienceThis book is both a life and a times; it will have many readers.—American Historical ReviewMazzotti's treatment of her is by far the most sophisticated biography that we have of this fascinating woman . . . His book is a cultural history of mathematics at its best.—Historia MathematicaThe overall result is micro-history at its best, and a history of mathematics that is narrated, as it always should be, through the broader history of the people and places that made this particular science what it is.—The Mathematical IntelligencerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Engaging in a Conversation2. Catholicisms3. Trees of Knowledge4. Choices5. A List of Books6. Calculus for the Believer7. A New Female MindEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Engineering Victory
Book SynopsisSuperior engineering skills among Union soldiers helped ensure victory in the Civil War. Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineeringnot superior military strategy or industrial advantageas the critical determining factor in the war's outcome. Army finds that Union soldiers were able to apply scientific ingenuity and innovation to complex problems in a way that Confederate soldiers simply could not match. Skilled Free State engineers who were trained during the antebellum period benefited from basic educational reforms, the spread of informal educational practices, and a culture that encouraged learning and innovation. During the war, their rapid construction and repair of roads, railways, and bridges allowed Northern troops to pass quickly through the forbidding terrain of the South as retreating and maneuvering Confederates struggled to cut supply lines anTrade ReviewHighly recommended.—ChoiceA thoughtful treatise on an important subject related to war, culture, and society, Engineering Victory is highly recommended reading.—Civil War Books and AuthorsArmy's description of Union Army engineers and their accomplishments is certainly thorough and impressive. He relates numerous examples of how the effective use of engineers led to victory while an ineffective application led to defeat.—The Michigan Historical ReviewThomas Army Jr. has produced an interesting and thought-provoking study of military engineering in the Civil War with which students of the war, logistics, and technology will have to reckon.—Civil War Book Review. . . Army has made a major contribution to the understanding of how engineering and technology played a vital role in Union victory. Every scholar interested in the Civil War, the Union war effort, and the history of technology should grapple with his arguments and their implications.—The Journal of Southern History. . . Engineering Victory deserves praise . . .—Journal of the Shenandoah Valley During the Civil War EraEngineering Victory will appeal to historians in the areas of technology, education, and military studies. Obviously, historians of science and technology will benefit the most from this book since it is primarily written for the purposes of highlighting engineering advancements and implementations by the Union Army during the Civil War . . . While Army does not deny that the Union had material and industrial advantages over the Confederacy, by examining the state of education in the North and the role Union engineers played in winning the war, he has opened a new avenue to explore in why the Civil War ended with a Union victory. Military historians would be wise to follow the trail that Army has started and continue this exploration of avenue of Civil War history.—Joshua Camper, University of Tennessee Martin, H-War Book ReviewsTable of ContentsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart II The Education and Management Gap1. Common School Reform and Science Education2. Mechanics' Institutes and Agricultural Fairs3. Building the RailroadsPart II4. Wanted: Volunteer Engineers5. Early Successes and Failures6. McClellan Tests His Engineers7. The Birth of the United States Military Railroad8. Summer–Fall 1862Part III9. Vicksburg10. Gettysburg11. Chattanooga12. The Red River and Petersburg13. Atlanta and the Carolina CampaignsConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Great Stink of Paris and the
Book SynopsisExplores the scientific and social factors that continue to influence the public's lingering uncertainty over how disease canand cannotbe spread. Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors enveloped large portions of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen years laterwhen the City of Light was in the grips of another Great Stinkthe public conversation about health and disease had changed dramatically. Parisians held their noses and protested, but this time few feared that the odors would spread disease. Historian David S. Barnes examines the birth of a new microbe-centered science of public health during the 1880s and 1890s, when the germ theory of disease burst into public consciousness. Tracing a series of developments in French science, medicine, politics, and culture, Barnes reveals how the science and practice of public health changed during the heyday of the Bacteriological Revolution. Despite its many innovTrade ReviewBarnes's detailed and scholarly account is persuasive. —ScienceA well-developed study in medically related social history, it tells an intriguing tale and prompts us to ask how our own cultural contexts affect our views and actions regarding environmental and infectious scourges here and now.—New England Journal of MedicineBoth a captivating story and a sophisticated historical study. Kudos to Barnes for this valuable and insightful book that both physicians and historians will enjoy.—Journal of the American Medical AssociationExemplary study . . . The argument of this book rests on an interesting amalgam of insights from critical theorists and social scientists.—Journal of the History of MedicineThe book's relevance to modern-day medical concerns will make it appealing to nurses, public health experts, and medical professionals in general.—Nursing History ReviewA remarkable contribution to the field of nineteenth-century studies.—Dalhousie French StudiesA very worthy addition.—IsisDavid Barnes wallows in filth to very good purpose . . . The Great Stink of Paris demonstrates in exemplary fashion the value of complicating medical-historical issues by lifting our vision above ideological and narrowly social concerns so as to explore the broader cultural context of medical ideas and practices.—H-FranceIntelligent and beautifully argued.—Historical Studies in the Natural SciencesBarnes does a splendid job of depicting public anxieties about the stench that overwhelmed Parisians in 1880, and of tracing the campaign by government officials and physicians to respond to these concerns during the following two decades. His book makes an important contribution to both urban history and medical history through its recalibration of the history of public health.—French Politics, Culture & SocietyUseful.—Sharon Marcus, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Not Everything That Stinks Kills"2. The Sanitarians' Legacy, or How Health Became Public3. Taxonomies of Transmission4. Putting Germ Theory into Practice5. Toward a Cleaner and Healthier Republic6. Odors and "Infection," 1880 and BeyondEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Imagination and Science in Romanticism
Book SynopsisHow did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on RomanticismRichard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known. Sha examines how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He also demonstrates howTrade ReviewThis impressive monograph will remain, I suspect, the most important resource on Romantic literature and science for many decades to come. This book changes how we view not only Romanticism but also the broader relationship between literature and science.—Eighteenth-Century FictionA fascinating read and discovery of literary and scientific interconnections.—Review of English StudiesFor Sha, the concept of imagination is the key to unlocking relations between science and literature, since the faculty was viewed as central to scientific inquiry and literary creativity alike. Sha demonstrates that scientific thinkers, far from being antipathetic to the imagination, repeatedly indulged it and then tested its results experimentally. [I am] grateful for many penetrating insights in Sha's book.—Studies in RomanticismRichard C. Sha's exemplary Imagination and Science in Romanticism centers the Romantic imagination within scientific ways of knowing. Each chapter contains intriguing and thorough discussions of science, and subtle, detailed readings of literary texts. There is a wealth of wonderfully collated material here and fine-grained contextualization; readers interested in Romanticism and science will find the individual chapters rewarding.—Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900Richard Sha's Imagination and Science in Romanticism is required reading for anyone interested in the relations between Romantic science and literature.—Tilottama Rajan, The Wordsworth CircleImagination and Science in Romanticism shifts the terms in which imaginative theory, in literature and science alike, can be understood.—British Association for Romantic Studies' Bulletin & ReviewThe evidence across chapters from both literature and science fully substantiates Sha's central claim for an expanded sense of the imagination that includes Romantic science and reason along with it. Beyond a significant contribution to criticism of Romantic literature, this book is a rich resource and model for how to do interdisciplinary scholarship well.—Kaitlin Mondello, Millersville University, H-EnvironmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Imagining Dynamic Matter: Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, and the Chemistry and Physics of Matter Chapter Two. William Blake and the Neurological Imagination: Romantic Science, Nerves, and the Emergent SelfChapter Three. The Physiological Imagination: Coleridge’s BiographiaChapter Four. Obstetrics and Embryology: Science and Imagination in FrankensteinNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America
Book SynopsisHow natural history made sex scientific in the eighteenth century. If sexologythe science of sexcame into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make meaning out of sex before that point? In The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, Greta LaFleur demonstrates that eighteenth-century natural historythe study of organic life in its environmentactually provided the intellectual foundations for the later development of the scientific study of sex. Natural historians understood the human body to be a porous envelope, eminently vulnerable to its environment. Yet historians of sexuality have tended to rely on archival evidence of genital-based or otherwise bodily sex acts for source material. Through careful readings of both elite natural history texts and popular print forms that circulated widely in the British North American coloniesamong them Barbary captivity, execution, cross-dressing, and anti-vice narrativesLaFleur Trade ReviewGreta LaFleur invites readers to consider a different body. The book effectively historicizes categories that are often taken for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but also invites the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies. LaFleur ultimately crafts a space of possibility for different futures as well. These are futures of greater intersectional solidarity in which we are invited to think about the collective, and move past the dominance of the individual, the subjective and modern biopoliticized body.—New Books NetworkWhile LaFleur's work speaks directly to early Americanists and scholars of race, gender, and sexuality, it also merits a far-reaching ecocritical audience . . . LaFleur offers us a compelling genealogy of environmentally determined sexuality, one that releases sex and sexuality from the individual subject while recognizing the racializing discourses that have shaped and constrained early American theories of sexual variety."—ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and EnvironmentLaFleur's provocations are critical toward contending with the histories of those populations who have contested and continue to contest the Euro-American category of human as well as its environmental preconditions and presumed prerogatives.—Catherine R. Peters, Harvard University, Environmental HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Toward an Environmental Theory of Early Sexuality1. The Natural History of Sexuality2. The Complexion of Sodomy3. "Egyptian Lusts" and Other Bad Habits: Narrating Sexual Deviance and Executing Racial Difference4. "Columbia's Soil": Botanical Sexuality and the Colonial Landscape in Herman Mann's The Female Review5. Vice, Race, and the Sexuality of Space: The Early Nineteenth Century in Boston's "Negro Hill"Epilogue: Thinking Sex—Without the SubjectNotesWorks Cited
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Johns Hopkins University Press Freedoms Laboratory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA strong contribution to the history of modern science.—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewHistorian Wolfe offers a thoughtful, thoroughly researched history of how the American government employed science and scientists to improve world opinion of liberal democracy during the Cold War . . . [R]eaders with an interest in the conjunction of science and politics will find her book an informative one.—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewCold-war history, Wolfe writes, is not a heroes-and-villains narrative: it must be told in 'shades of gray.' The government used scientists' ideals for its own political reasons. And the scientists, who saw themselves as apolitical, used the government's political messages and support to question, observe, conclude, write and speak—freely and in accord with their ideals.—NatureOne of the common misbeliefs about science is that it is apolitical. Actually, as historian Wolfe reveals in her well-researched and closely argued study, during the Cold War, American scientists were often deeply involved in promoting American cultural values to other parts of the world in an effort to defeat the communists at the same game. An excellent study on a topic that deserves more attention.—Library JournalWolfe's new book, Freedom's Laboratory, frontally addresses questions of what science is, how it is best done, and how it (and scientists themselves) might be strategically deployed to advance national interests.—LA Review of BooksAudra Wolfe's provocative new book, Freedom's Laboratory, dives into the fascinating history of why asserting the apolitical nature of science became a political priority during another notably politicized period in America's past: the Cold War.—ScienceCarefully researched works on the Cultural Cold War, like Freedom's Laboratory, reveal what a murky world we have inherited. Scientists fighting against restrictions on their profession used the language of crusading anti-Communism, defining their work as apolitical and therefore free. But it was neither. The point is not, as Wolfe argues clearly, that 'freedom' is an impossible value to hold, nor that scientific internationalism isn't worth defending, nor that the fiction of apolitical science means that science is better off being relentlessly politicized. The point, rather, is that power and knowledge are always entwined. During the Cold War, American institutions were assumed to be ideal by default. We now know more than enough to understand that they were not, and that the task of making them better belongs to us.—New RepublicExplores the science of the Cold War beyond its more tangible role in developing weapons. Instead, Wolfe focuses on science as propaganda, part of America's psychological offensive designed to convince people to buy into American ideology. She traces the perception that science should be free and unimpeded by borders and politics to this era.—The VergeIt is hard to imagine a history of science that is more timely than one that situates our current political environment in the context of the Cold War . . . Wolfe's text is essential reading for both students and scientists who have been immersed in the idea of science as an apolitical pursuit.—Physics TodayThis book is a well-written and information-packed account of science's roles in American culture and diplomacy during the cold war and its denouement. [A] strength is the depth and breadth of the archival and historical research offered.—MetascienceTest DBRTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Western Science vs. Marxist Science2. Ambassadors for Science3. A War of Ideas4. Science and Freedom5. Science for Peace6. Science for Diplomacy7. Developing Scientific Minds8. An Unscientific Reckoning9. Scientists' Rights are Human RightsEpilogue
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Johns Hopkins University Press Engineering Rules
Book SynopsisThe first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting. Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy trace the standard-setting system's evolution through time, revealing a process with an astonishingly pervasive, if rarely noticed, impact on all of our lives. This type of standard setting was established in the 1880s, when engineers aimed to prove their status as professionals by creating useful standards that would be widely adopted by manufacturers while satisfying corporate customers. Yates and Murphy explain how these engineers' processes provided a timely way to set desiraTrade ReviewEvery standards professional should own this book. Bottom line—an A+.—Standards EngineeringBy recounting the story of standardization, Yates and Murphy demonstrate how human and organizational actions slowly sediment into institutions that melt into the background of our lives.—Administrative Science QuarterlyYates and Murphy provide an engaging narrative about the people and processes responsible for making the technologies we have today work with one another—New Books NetworkThe book is an extraordinarily detailed history of the movement from national to international standards creation and use. It introduces as its heroes . . . a series of men of rectitude and accomplishment who selflessly built the practice.—Yale Journal on RegulationA comprehensive, readable account of private standard setting that should interest legal scholars, lawyers, and law students. Yates and Murphy have provided a great service with their illuminating history of the private world of standard setting.—The Regulatory ReviewThis book is history at its finest. It is not only a technical and business history of engineering standards but also a deeply researched social history of communities of standardizers. It is also elegantly written—a testament to Yates's and Murphy's research and writing skills. Historians of capitalism and technology will find it required reading, but this book also stands a fair chance of engaging a mass readership.—Business History ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronymsIntroductionPart I. The First Wave1. Engineering Professionalization and Private Standard Setting for Industry before 19002. Organizing Private Standard Setting within and across Borders, 1900 to World War I3. A Community and a Movement, World War I to the Great DepressionPart II. The Second Wave4. Decline and Revival of the Movement, the 1930s to the 1950s5. Standards for a Global Market, the 1960s to the 1980s6. US Participation in International RFI/EMC Standardization, World War II to the 1980sPart III. The Third Wave7. Computer Networking Ushers in a New Era in Standard Setting, 1980s to 2000s8. Development of the W3C WebCrypto API Standard, 2012 to 20179. Voluntary Standards for Quality Management and Social Responsibility since the 1980s ConclusionEssay on Primary SourcesNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The DOs Osteopathic Medicine in America
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Andrew Taylor StillChapter 2. The Missouri MeccaChapter 3. In the FieldChapter 4. Structure & FunctionChapter 5. Expanding the ScopeChapter 6. The Push for Higher StandardsChapter 7. A Question of IdentityChapter 8. The California MergerChapter 9. Reaffirmation & ExpansionChapter 10. In a Sea of ChangeChapter 11. The Challenge of DistinctivenessNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Origins of Agnosticism
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that God is unknowable. To address this question, he reconstructs the theory of knowledge posited by Thomas Henry Huxley and his network of agnostics. In doing so, Lightman argues that agnosticism was constructed on an epistemological foundation laid by Christian thought. In addition to undermining the continuity in the intellectual history of religious thought, Lightman exposes the religious origins of agnosticism.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. The Power of Modern Agnosticism Chapter 1. The Agnostic Conundrum Chapter 2. Mansel and the Kantian Tradition Chapter 3. Herbert Spencer and the Worship of the UnknowableChapter 4. Disillusionment with and Attack on Orthodoxy Chapter 5. Religion, Theology, and the Church Agnostic Chapter 6. The New Natural Theology and the Holy Trinity of AgnosticismConclusion. The Tragedy of Agnosticism Abbreviations NotesBibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Collectors of Lost Souls
Book SynopsisThis riveting account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause and cure. Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineWinner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of ScienceWinner, General History Award, New South Wales Premier's History AwardsWhen whites first encountered the Fore people in the isolated highlands of colonial New Guinea during the 1940s and 1950s, they found a people in the grip of a bizarre epidemic. Women and children succumbed to muscle weakness, uncontrollable tremors, and lack of coordination, until death inevitably supervened. Facing extinction, the Fore attributed their unique and terrifying affliction to a particularly malign form of sorcery. In The Collectors of Lost Souls, Warwick Anderson tells the story of the resilience of the Fore through this devastating plague, their transformation into modern people,Table of ContentsPreface to the Updated EditionIntroduction. The Disease Europeans Catch from KuruChapter 1. Stranger RelationsChapter 2. Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man Chapter 3. A Contemptuous Tenderness Chapter 4. The Scientist and His Magic Chapter 5. Hearts of Darkness Chapter 6. Specimen Days Chapter 7. We Were Their People Chapter 8. Stumbling along the Tortuous Road Conclusion. Dénouement Was a Bit Difficult AfterwordAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Age of Analogy
Book SynopsisHow did literature shape nineteenth-century science?Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected journals (now titled The Voyage of the Beagle) and for his masterpiece, The Origin of Species. In The Age of Analogy, Devin Griffiths argues that the Darwins' writing style was profoundly influenced by the poets, novelists, and historians of their era. The Darwins, like other scientists of the time, labored to refashion contemporary literary models into a new mode of narrative analysis that could address the contingent world disclosed by contemporary natural science. By employing vivid language and experimenting with a variety of different genres, these writers gave rise to a new relational study Trade Review[A] serious, detailed, and convincing account with few unexplored avenues. Recommended.—ChoiceThe Age of Analogy represents a valuable contribution to scholarship on literature and science. Building on the established models of new historicism and of Gillian Beer's foundational work on Darwinism, it nonetheless offers something new by asking researchers in this field to think more carefully about the kinds of historicism that operate both in their own work and in nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing.—Review of English StudiesThe Age of Analogy is perhaps the most ambitious and important book on the entanglement of nineteenth-century scientific culture and literature to have been written this century—in a field of highly ambitious and truly important books. But it also elucidates the entanglement of nineteenth-century culture with our own, bringing light to contemporary historicist practices, particularly in literary studies.—IsisFor those interested in either of the intertwined histories of literature and science—or in what we might more generously call the intellectual culture of the 1780s through the 1850s—Griffiths' book is both readable and richly rewarding.—Review 19This ambitious work should shape future thinking about historicism, science and literature in the nineteenth century and beyond in new and significant ways. Griffiths deserves to be congratulated on having achieved this and, in the process, on having written some of the best recent criticism on Charles Darwin and George Eliot in particular, which is no mean feat in itself.—British Society for Literature and ScienceThe book is well written and the richness of the study is impressive. It is precisely because of this wide-ranging approach that The Age of Analogy demonstrates so convincingly that, while the scholarship on analogy is not new, Griffiths takes it to another level where he explores events in a pluralist state of time. This, he terms comparative historicism. As such, The Age of Analogy makes a valuable contribution to the humanities and sciences.—MetascienceThe Age of Analogy promises to transform our understanding of literary and scientific history in the Anthropocene. This is a big, challenging, eloquent book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.—Nineteenth-Century ContextsAs Griffiths builds his argument and examines his literary examples, he, in effect, applies the analogical paradigm he theorized in the opening chapters, generating a compelling set of insights into modes of thought that circulated in the first half of the nineteenth century, some of which continue to shape and define our own times. A necessary intervention.—Journal of British Studies[A] deeply impressive book.—SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900Ambitious in its scope and vision and eloquently written, The Age of Analogy is a challenging and thought-provoking study that gives us new and enriching ways to read nineteenth-century intellectual history—Dickens QuarterlyWhat is exhilarating about The Age of Analogy is its bold insistence upon the utility of imaginative literary form as an active agent in science, with the power not only to reflect knowledge of the world but to add to it as well.—Literature and HistoryA book of enormous erudition, especially for a first book. Great books change how criticism does its business, this happens far more rarely than one might think.—Wordsworth CircleThe Age of Analogy promises to transform our understanding of literary and scientific history in the Anthropocene. This is a big, challenging, eloquent book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.—Nineteenth-Century ContextsDevin Griffith's multifaceted, richly textured The Age of Analogy argues that the nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new mode of engaging with history—'comparative historicism'—that increasingly fostered what Griffiths calls a 'flat' view of temporal existence. Griffith's method exemplifies the same kind of analogical reasoning that his book investigates. In most cases, it does this with remarkable success, furnishing the field of Victorian science and literature with some truly fresh inspiration and insight.—Victorian StudiesIt is clarifying and invigorating to have a scholar as searching and well-read as Devin Griffiths address the problem of analogy head on. He ambitiously tracks analogy as an evolving mode of thought during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on analogy as a method central to the emerging field of comparative historicism . . . The Age of Analogy is an impressive book that refuses to shy away from a topic as daunting as analogy just because it threatens to become unwieldy. Griffiths is unusually generous in the alacrity with which he maps the questions that interest him onto a huge range of scholarly fields, including linguistics, mathematics, publishing history, botany, comparative anatomy, astronomy, and musical theory.—Anna Henchman, Boston University, Victorian ReviewThe Age of Analogy brims with original arguments and demonstrates Griffiths's impressive range and dexterity in a wide variety of fields and discourses.—Adam Sneed, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Studies in RomanticismDevin Griffiths's excellent The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins makes a compelling case for the importance of literary language to the development of scientific theory and practice . . . [The Age of Analogy] demonstrates an encyclopedic grasp of everything from set theory to Saussurian semiotics . . . As Griffiths so masterfully demonstrates, analogy helps us extend our imaginative apprehension of the world's past and present—as well as its possible futures.—Ella Mershon, Marquette University, Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Analogy under a Different FormPrelude: Thinking through Analogy1. Erasmus Darwin, Enlightenment History, and the Crisis of Analogy2. Crossing the Border with Walter Scott3. Spooky Action in Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H.4. Falsifying George Eliot5. The Origin of Charles Darwin's OrchidsCoda: Climate Science and the "No-Analog Future"NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press On Time
Book SynopsisAn approachable, accessible history of timekeeping and the impact of the increasing precision and accuracy of time on humanity. Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Mondschein explores the paired development of concepts and technologies of timekeeping with human thought. Without clocks, he argues, the modern world as we know it would not exist. From the astronomical timekeeping of the ancient world to the tower clocks of the Middle Ages to the seagoing chronometer, the quartz watch, and the atomic clock, greater precision and accuracy have had profound effects on human societywhich, in turn, has driven the quest for further precision and accuracy. This quest toward automationwhich gave rise to the Gregorian calendar, the factory clock, and even the near-disastrous Y2K bughas led to profound social repercussions and driven the creation of the modern scientific mindset. Surveying thTrade ReviewThat On Time is interactive is certainly a bonus. Mondschein provides activities, or exercises, to bring alive the abstract concepts and scientific observations he describes in each chapter—a fabulous idea that should be more widely adopted if a subject lends itself to this type of experimentation.—Esther Liberman Cuenca, University of Houston, Victoria, Speculumengaging book—J. Lennart Berggren, The CompendiumTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword, by Neal StephensonAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Scholars and SpheresChapter 2. Cities and ClocksChapter 3. Savants and SpringsChapter 4. Navigators and RegulatorsChapter 5. Rationalization and RelativityAppendix. Chapter ExercisesGlossaryNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Technology and the Environment in History
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on how envirotech can help us engage with the surrounding world in ways that are more sustainable for humanityand the planet. Today's scientists, policymakers, and citizens are all confronted by numerous dilemmas at the nexus of technology and the environment. Every day seems to bring new worries about the dangers posed by carcinogens, superbugs, energy crises, invasive species, genetically modified organisms, groundwater contamination, failing infrastructure, and other troubling issues. In Technology and the Environment in History, Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring adopt an analytical approach to explore current research at the intersection of environmental history and the history of technologyan emerging field known as envirotech. Technology and the Environment in History They discuss the important topics, historical processes, and scholarly concerns that have emerged from recent work in thinking about envirotech. Each chapter focuses on a different urgent topiTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Technology and the Environment in History1. Food and Food Systems2. Industrialization3. Discards4. Disasters5. Body6. SensescapesConclusion. An Envirotechnical WorldAppendix. Teaching ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Freedoms Laboratory
Book SynopsisThe Cold War ended long ago, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States. Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom's Laboratory, Audra J. Wolfe shows how these ideas were tested to their limits in the high-stakes propaganda battles of the Cold War. Wolfe examines the role that scientists, in concert with administrators and policymakers, played in American cultural diplomacy after World War II. During this period, the engines of US propaganda promoted a vision of science that highlighted empiricism, objectivity, a commitment to pure research, and internationalism. Working (both overtly and covertly, wittingly and unwittingly) with governmental and private organizations, scientists attempted to decide what, exactly, they mTrade ReviewA strong contribution to the history of modern science.—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewHistorian Wolfe offers a thoughtful, thoroughly researched history of how the American government employed science and scientists to improve world opinion of liberal democracy during the Cold War . . . [R]eaders with an interest in the conjunction of science and politics will find her book an informative one.—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewCold-war history, Wolfe writes, is not a heroes-and-villains narrative: it must be told in 'shades of gray.' The government used scientists' ideals for its own political reasons. And the scientists, who saw themselves as apolitical, used the government's political messages and support to question, observe, conclude, write and speak—freely and in accord with their ideals.—NatureOne of the common misbeliefs about science is that it is apolitical. Actually, as historian Wolfe reveals in her well-researched and closely argued study, during the Cold War, American scientists were often deeply involved in promoting American cultural values to other parts of the world in an effort to defeat the communists at the same game. An excellent study on a topic that deserves more attention.—Library JournalWolfe's new book, Freedom's Laboratory, frontally addresses questions of what science is, how it is best done, and how it (and scientists themselves) might be strategically deployed to advance national interests.—LA Review of BooksAudra Wolfe's provocative new book, Freedom's Laboratory, dives into the fascinating history of why asserting the apolitical nature of science became a political priority during another notably politicized period in America's past: the Cold War.—ScienceCarefully researched works on the Cultural Cold War, like Freedom's Laboratory, reveal what a murky world we have inherited. Scientists fighting against restrictions on their profession used the language of crusading anti-Communism, defining their work as apolitical and therefore free. But it was neither. The point is not, as Wolfe argues clearly, that 'freedom' is an impossible value to hold, nor that scientific internationalism isn't worth defending, nor that the fiction of apolitical science means that science is better off being relentlessly politicized. The point, rather, is that power and knowledge are always entwined. During the Cold War, American institutions were assumed to be ideal by default. We now know more than enough to understand that they were not, and that the task of making them better belongs to us.—New RepublicExplores the science of the Cold War beyond its more tangible role in developing weapons. Instead, Wolfe focuses on science as propaganda, part of America's psychological offensive designed to convince people to buy into American ideology. She traces the perception that science should be free and unimpeded by borders and politics to this era.—The VergeIt is hard to imagine a history of science that is more timely than one that situates our current political environment in the context of the Cold War . . . Wolfe's text is essential reading for both students and scientists who have been immersed in the idea of science as an apolitical pursuit.—Physics TodayThis book is a well-written and information-packed account of science's roles in American culture and diplomacy during the cold war and its denouement. [A] strength is the depth and breadth of the archival and historical research offered.—MetascienceTest DBRTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Western Science vs. Marxist Science2. Ambassadors for Science3. A War of Ideas4. Science and Freedom5. Science for Peace6. Science for Diplomacy7. Developing Scientific Minds8. An Unscientific Reckoning9. Scientists' Rights are Human RightsEpilogue
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Large Hadron Collider
Book SynopsisAn insider's history of the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider: why it was built, how it works, and the importance of what it has revealed. Since 2008 scientists have conducted experiments in a hyperenergized, 17-mile supercollider beneath the border of France and Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (or what scientists call the LHC) is one of the wonders of the modern worlda highly sophisticated scientific instrument designed to re-create in miniature the conditions of the universe as they existed in the microseconds following the big bang. Among many notable LHC discoveries, one led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for revealing evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle. Picking up where he left off in The Quantum Frontier, physicist Don Lincoln shares an insider's account of the LHC's operational history and gives readers everything they need to become well informed on this marvel of technology. Writing about the LHC'Trade ReviewThe book is a fast read brimming with personality. Reading about the Large Hadron Collider, with its spinning particle streams, hypercontrolled collisions, and awesome implications, is like learning about what wizards do.—Foreword ReviewsLincoln's tales of the LHC . . . offer readers fresh insight into some of the most significant research in modern physics.—Publishers WeeklyLaypersons interested in the building blocks of the universe and/or the newsworthy LHC will learn a lot from this work and enjoy the process.—Library JournalPhysics blends with some amazing stories of the Higgs boson and other details in a powerful scientific survey packed with insights that are both scientifically detailed and widely accessible to general-interest readers.—California BookwatchThis engaging story will be appreciated by readers interested in the frontiers of science . . . Highly recommended.—ChoiceWritten in accessible language and an engaging manner . . . I was pleased to see how Lincoln's sense of humor. . . lightens what might otherwise be a tedious enumeration of technical details.—MetascienceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Beginnings and Building Blocks2. Stuff We Already Know3. Accelerators and the LHC4. Incredible Detectors5. Teething Pains and Triumphs6. The Dramatic Higgs Saga7. Looking for Something New8. The Future Is Bright!Suggested ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Imagination and Science in Romanticism
Book SynopsisHow did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on RomanticismRichard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known. Sha examines how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He also demonstrates howTrade ReviewThis impressive monograph will remain, I suspect, the most important resource on Romantic literature and science for many decades to come. This book changes how we view not only Romanticism but also the broader relationship between literature and science.—Eighteenth-Century FictionA fascinating read and discovery of literary and scientific interconnections.—Review of English StudiesFor Sha, the concept of imagination is the key to unlocking relations between science and literature, since the faculty was viewed as central to scientific inquiry and literary creativity alike. Sha demonstrates that scientific thinkers, far from being antipathetic to the imagination, repeatedly indulged it and then tested its results experimentally. [I am] grateful for many penetrating insights in Sha's book.—Studies in RomanticismRichard C. Sha's exemplary Imagination and Science in Romanticism centers the Romantic imagination within scientific ways of knowing. Each chapter contains intriguing and thorough discussions of science, and subtle, detailed readings of literary texts. There is a wealth of wonderfully collated material here and fine-grained contextualization; readers interested in Romanticism and science will find the individual chapters rewarding.—Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900Richard Sha's Imagination and Science in Romanticism is required reading for anyone interested in the relations between Romantic science and literature.—Tilottama Rajan, The Wordsworth CircleImagination and Science in Romanticism shifts the terms in which imaginative theory, in literature and science alike, can be understood.—British Association for Romantic Studies' Bulletin & ReviewThe evidence across chapters from both literature and science fully substantiates Sha's central claim for an expanded sense of the imagination that includes Romantic science and reason along with it. Beyond a significant contribution to criticism of Romantic literature, this book is a rich resource and model for how to do interdisciplinary scholarship well.—Kaitlin Mondello, Millersville University, H-EnvironmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Imagining Dynamic Matter: Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, and the Chemistry and Physics of Matter Chapter Two. William Blake and the Neurological Imagination: Romantic Science, Nerves, and the Emergent SelfChapter Three. The Physiological Imagination: Coleridge’s BiographiaChapter Four. Obstetrics and Embryology: Science and Imagination in FrankensteinNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press World of Patterns
Book SynopsisA comprehensive account of the methods of knowledge production throughout human history and across the globe. The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insightsit may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles began 40,000 years ago, when striped patterns were engraved on mammoths' bones to keep track of the moon's phases. What routes did human knowledge take to grow from these humble beginnings through many detours and dead ends into modern understandings of nature and culture? In this work of unprecedented scope, Rens Bod removes the Western natural sciences from their often-central role to bring us the first global history of human knowledge. Having sketched the history of the humanities in his ground-breaking A New History of the Humanities, Bod now adopts a broader perspective, stepping beyond classical antiquity back to the Stone Age to answer the questionTrade ReviewWorld of Patterns is an impressive work, not only thanks to its truly global grasp but also because it spans huge periods of time, from the Paleolithic to the beginning of the nineteenth century, and furthermore because it covers a wide variety of knowledge fields, from the natural sciences to the human sciences—among them astronomy, mathematics, medicine, history, philology, linguistics, literary sciences, and jurisprudence.—Isis: A Journal of the History of Science SocietyTable of ContentsPreface: The Wonder of KnowledgeIntroduction. Understanding the World through Patterns and PrinciplesChapter 1. The Awareness of Patterns: PrehistoryChapter 2. The Explosion of Patterns and the Awareness of Principles: Early AntiquityChapter 3. The Explosion of Principles and the Awareness of Deduction: Classical AntiquityChapter 4. The Reduction of Principles: Postclassical PeriodChapter 5. The Discovery of Patterns in Deductions: The Modern EraConclusion. The Origin, Growth, and Future of KnowledgeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Maker of Pedigrees
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Interlopers
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Johns Hopkins University Press Do I Know You
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of how we recognize facesor fail to recognize them. In Do I Know You? Sharrona Pearl explores the fascinating category of face recognition and the the face recognition spectrum, which ranges from face blindness at one end to super recognition at the other. Super recognizers can recall faces from only the briefest exposure, while face blind people lack the capacity to recognize faces at all, including those of their closest loved ones. Informed by archival research, the latest neurological studies, and testimonials from people at both ends of the spectrum, Pearl tells a nuanced story of how we relate to each other through our faces. The category of face recognition is relatively new despite the importance of faces in how we build relationships and understand our own humanity. Pearl shows how this most tacit of knowledge came to enter the scientific and diagnostic field despite difficulties with identifying it. She offers a grounded framework for how we evaluate oTrade ReviewThe book serves as a clinical yet compelling breakdown...Do I Know You? may be most compelling to the face blind and super recognizers (or their loved ones), Pearl adeptly broadens the lens with interesting tidbits, demonstrating what our collective obsession with knowing faces means for us as a society, for good and for ill, especially in our digital era.—Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Inventing a SpectrumChapter 1. Thinking in Cases: A Somewhat Failed Search for OriginsChapter 2. The Blindness of Great Men; or, How Prosopagnosia Was InventedChapter 3. More Men, More Invention: The Other Side of the Spectrum (and Two Sides of the Same Story)Chapter 4. A Super Useless Super Skill: Meet the SupersChapter 5. Face Surveillance at the Border: Checkpoint CharlieChapter 6. Face Recognition Software and Machine Translation: Why Computers Aren't PeopleChapter 7. Is There Dyslexia without Reading?Conclusion. Beyond the FaceCoda. The Detective StoryNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Leading the Change
Book SynopsisChronicles Johns Hopkins Medicine's triumphs and challenges during the last ten years, including the institution's global leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Leading the Change: Johns Hopkins Medicine from 2012 to 2022, Karen Nitkin describes a remarkable decade in the history of the institutionan era of growth, innovation, and adaptation. Guided by Paul B. Rothman, the former dean of the medical faculty and the CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, this prestigious medical school and health system cemented its status as a leader in medical education, research, and patient care. This was particularly true during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the world turned to Johns Hopkins for evidence-based information and expertise. In this beautifully designed volume, Nitkin introduces the leaders, clinicians, researchers, educators, students, patients, and community members who collaborate to make Johns Hopkins an exemplary place to work, learn, teach, research, and heal. Leading the Change cove
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Temple University Press,U.S. Perrys Arcana
Book SynopsisOne of the original zoological journals, now in full facsimileTrade Review"After two centuries, Perry's work can now be judged by a modern audience in this handsome fascimile edition. Summing Up: Highly Recommended." —CHOICE"While it would be easy to simply delight in the plates and dismiss the text as of little value, from an historical perspective there is something to be gained by taking the time to read it. At the very least Perry's Arcana provides insights into an important period in the development of the natural sciences as we know them today." —Historical Records of Australian Science
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University of Toronto Press The Fluid Envelope of our Planet
Book SynopsisA detailed and beautifully written account of the history of oceanography, The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet is an engaging account of the emergence of a scientific discipline.Trade Review'It is a fascinating account of what went before and got us to where we are today in our understanding of the circulation of the ocean and all that this means to marine biology, marine chemistry and the many practical applications of what we now know as physical oceanography.' -- Colin Summerhayes, International Journal of Maritime History: vol22:02:10 'A page-turning history of physical oceanography ... Mills articulates the development of ideas, but he also delves into the background, motivation, and character of the leading actors in what is a compelling story that unfolds page by page ... To all of you interested in the development of ideas in oceanography: please read this book, you will learn, as I did, and in many places you will turn the pages as if it were a thriller.' -- Gwyn Griffiths Ocean Challenge 'This book, with its thorough, well-presented research, offers detailed insights into the history of major theories in physical oceanography. The work builds a complete view of the ideas, theories, and conflicts inherent in the birth of a new science ... The work is well written and includes an extensive list of reference ... Highly recommended.' -- N.W. Hinman Choice 'A finely crafted, thoroughly researched, well written, and rewarding study... Mills has made here a strong and vital contribution to our understanding of the rise of the modern physical environmental sciences.' -- Ronald Doel: ISIS, vol102:01:2011Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet 3 1 The Way of the Sea: Knowledge of Oceanic Circulation before the Nineteenth Century 10 2 Groping through the Darkness: The Problem of Deep Ocean Circulation 44 3 Boundaries Built with Numbers: Making the Ocean Mathematical 82 4 Evangelizing in the Wilderness: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to Canada 111 5 'Physische Meereskunde': From Geography to Physical Oceanography in Berlin, 1900--1935 137 6 'D couverte de l'oc an ': Monaco and the Failure of French Oceanography 162 7 Slipping away from Norway: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to the United States 192 8 Facing the Atlantic and the Pacific: Dynamic Oceanography Re-emerges in Canada, 1930--1950 232 9 Studying The Oceans and the Oceans 258 Appendix: Textbooks of Physical Oceanography 287 Notes 291 References 347 Index 419
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University of Toronto Press Doctors beyond Borders
Book SynopsisDoctors beyond Borders provides an essential historical perspective on the transnational migration of health care practitioners.Trade Review‘The audience of this excellent collection of essays ought to include: medical, labour, and economic historians; scholars specializing in imperial, global, and migration studies; and health policy analysts. This book should also end up on undergraduate and graduate reading lists across many fields.’ -- J.T.H. Connors * Canadian Journal of History vol 52:03:2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Doctors Beyond Borders: Entanglements and Intersections in the Modern History of Medical Migration (Laurence Monnais and David Wright) Imperial Connections and Caribbean Medicine, 1900-1938 (Juanita De Barros) Pathways of Perseverance: Medical Refugee Flights to Australia and New Zealand, 1933-1945 (John Weaver) Public Health and Persecution: Debates on the Possible Migration of Jewish Physicians to Sweden from Nazi Germany (Annika Berg) "A Mysterious Discrimination": Irish Medical Emigration to the United States in the 1950s (Greta Jones) A System of Exclusion: New Zealand Women Medical Specialists in International Medical Networks, 1945-75 (John Armstrong) From Zebra to Motorbike. Transnational Trajectories of South Asian Doctors in East Africa, c. 1870-1970 (Margret Frenz) Draft Doctors: The Impact of the Vietnam War on the Migration of Foreign Doctors to Canada (David Wright, Alex Ketchum and Gregory Marks) "Without racism there would be no geriatrics": South Asian Overseas-trained Doctors and the Development of Geriatric Medicine in the UK - 1950-2000 (Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry) Providing 'Special' Types of Labour and Exerting Agency: How Migrant Doctors Have Shaped the UK's National Health Service (Julian M Simpson, Stephanie J. Snow and Aneez Esmail) Connecting to Canada: Experiences of the South Asian Medical Diaspora during the 1960s and 1970s (Sasha Mullally and David Wright)
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University of Toronto Press Marking Time
Book SynopsisMarking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century.Trade Review"…the essays in this volume offer interesting contributions to our understanding of the Romantic conception of natural history and its relation to Darwinian evolution – pointing toward the possibility of expanding the contours of the ‘Romantic Darwin’ narrative." -- Andrea Gambarotto, Universite Catholique de Louvain * HPLS *"Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution, thoughtfully edited by Joel Faflak, presents a multiplicity of thinkers delving deeply into the possibility and potential for entanglement among temporality, Romanticism, and evolution." -- Dewey W. Hall, California State Polytechnic University * European Romantic Review *"There is much to learn from Marking Time, both in terms of how evolution served as a pervasive concept and metaphor across multiple discourses and disciplines in the Romantic era, and in the specific writings and authors analyzed in individual chapters, in which familiar texts are made unfamiliar and unfamiliar texts are brought to the forefront. Marking Time will surely have a major effect on future studies of Romantic science and the history of evolution." -- Seth T. Reno Auburn, University at Montgomery * Clio *"Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution offers excellent contributions to these diverse fields of study, and Faflak’s timely collection leaves readers with a portrait of Romantic evolution’s own entangled bank of topics and concepts far knottier—and more interesting—than the one familiar from more traditional histories of Darwinian evolutionary science." -- Andrew Bukett * Isis *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution Joel Faflak Part 1 Romanticism's Darwin 1. Plants, Analogy, and Perfection: Loose and Strict Analogies Gillian Beer 2. Darwin and the Mobility of Species Alan Bewell 3. Darwin's Ideas Matthew Rowlinson Part 2 Romantic Temporalities 4. Deep Time in the South Pacific: Scientific Voyaging and the Ancient/Primitive Analogy Noah Heringman 5. Malthus Our Contemporary?: Toward a Political Economy of Sex Maureen N. McLane Part 3 Goethe and the Contingencies of Life 6. Goethe's Morphology G bor ron Zempl n 7. Vertiginous Life: Goethe, Bones, and Italy Andrew Piper 8. Taking Chances Theresa M. Kelley Part 4 Evolutionary Idealisms 9. Did Goethe and Schelling Endorse Species Evolution? Robert J. Richards 10. The Vitality of Idealism: Life and Evolution in Schelling's and Hegel's Systems Tilottama Rajan 11. Degeneration: Inversions of Teleology Joan Steigerwald Contributors Index
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Charles Darwin the Copley Medal and the Rise of
Book SynopsisSince its appearance in 1859, Darwin’s long-awaited treatise in ""genetic biology"" had received reviews both favorable and damning. Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce presented arguments for and against the theory in a dramatic face-off at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford.
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Duke University Press Experimental Practice
Book SynopsisIn Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, these “alterontologies”—which Papadopoulos examines in a variety of contexts, from AIDS activism and the financialization of life to hacker communities and neuroscience—form the basis of ways of life that would embrace the more-than-social interdependence of the human and nonhuman worlds. Speaking to a matrix of concerns about politics and justice, social movements, matter and ontology, everyday practice, technoscience, the production of knowledge, and the human and nonhuman, Papadopoulos suggests that the develTrade Review"Offering a mix of keen insights . . . Experimental Practice is a book that will be valuable to academics who share the author's questions and frame of reference." -- DJ Mattingly * Choice *"Excellent. . . . Experimental Futures pulls together in endlessly inspiring fashion many concepts and ideas that have been to the forefront of engaged scholarship in geography." -- Patrick Bresnihan * Antipode *"Experimental Practice is a thorough and practical account of how matter matters, and how we can bring the non-human or more-than-human world into our political calculus and convincingly sets out a case for experimental practices." -- Nicholas Beuret * Sociological Review *"The range of case studies that is presented – from AIDS activism, to HSBC advertising campaigns, to the Struggle for Calais – helps to ground Papadopoulos’s theoretical arguments, and to moderate some of the creative licence that comes from his writing of ‘social science fiction.' . . . Consistently and provocatively argues for a reimagination of socio-political organisation and justice in/and the world." -- Orlando Woods * Social & Cultural Geography *"Experimental Practice takes a step forward in challenging the 'social' in Social Movement Studies by exploring the long ignored post-human entanglements of social movements. This original lens provides an important insight for scholars concerned with emancipatory struggles by foregrounding the interdependence of social-movements with their environment, and thus reconceptualizing political autonomy as the ability to remain open and to engage in transformative connections with a multiplicity of human and non-human actors." -- Álvaro Ramírez March * Social Movement Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Decolonial Politics of Matter 11 Part I. Movements 2. Biofinancialization as Terraformation 27 3. Ontological Organizing 49 Part II. History Remix 4. Activist Materialism 79 5. Insurgent Posthumanism 94 Part III. Alterontologies 6. Brain Matter 117 7. Compositional Technoscience 138 8. Crafting Ontologies 160 Acknowledgments 209 Notes 211 References 257 Index 323
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Duke University Press Experimental Practice
Book SynopsisIn Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, these “alterontologies”—which Papadopoulos examines in a variety of contexts, from AIDS activism and the financialization of life to hacker communities and neuroscience—form the basis of ways of life that would embrace the more-than-social interdependence of the human and nonhuman worlds. Speaking to a matrix of concerns about politics and justice, social movements, matter and ontology, everyday practice, technoscience, the production of knowledge, and the human and nonhuman, Papadopoulos suggests that the develTrade Review"Offering a mix of keen insights . . . Experimental Practice is a book that will be valuable to academics who share the author's questions and frame of reference." -- DJ Mattingly * Choice *"Excellent. . . . Experimental Futures pulls together in endlessly inspiring fashion many concepts and ideas that have been to the forefront of engaged scholarship in geography." -- Patrick Bresnihan * Antipode *"Experimental Practice is a thorough and practical account of how matter matters, and how we can bring the non-human or more-than-human world into our political calculus and convincingly sets out a case for experimental practices." -- Nicholas Beuret * Sociological Review *"The range of case studies that is presented – from AIDS activism, to HSBC advertising campaigns, to the Struggle for Calais – helps to ground Papadopoulos’s theoretical arguments, and to moderate some of the creative licence that comes from his writing of ‘social science fiction.' . . . Consistently and provocatively argues for a reimagination of socio-political organisation and justice in/and the world." -- Orlando Woods * Social & Cultural Geography *"Experimental Practice takes a step forward in challenging the 'social' in Social Movement Studies by exploring the long ignored post-human entanglements of social movements. This original lens provides an important insight for scholars concerned with emancipatory struggles by foregrounding the interdependence of social-movements with their environment, and thus reconceptualizing political autonomy as the ability to remain open and to engage in transformative connections with a multiplicity of human and non-human actors." -- Álvaro Ramírez March * Social Movement Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Decolonial Politics of Matter 11 Part I. Movements 2. Biofinancialization as Terraformation 27 3. Ontological Organizing 49 Part II. History Remix 4. Activist Materialism 79 5. Insurgent Posthumanism 94 Part III. Alterontologies 6. Brain Matter 117 7. Compositional Technoscience 138 8. Crafting Ontologies 160 Acknowledgments 209 Notes 211 References 257 Index 323
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Duke University Press Avian Reservoirs
Book SynopsisAfter experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. In Avian Reservoirs Frédéric Keck offers a comparative analysis of these responses, tracing how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China. Drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork, Keck demonstrates that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics—stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong—reflect Trade Review“In this ethnography of the prevention of bird flu pandemics in Asia, Frédéric Keck dazzlingly interweaves perspectives from the anthropology of sciences and institutions, an account of the modernization of methods of biopower, and a fine-grained analysis of relations between endangered humans and nonhumans in order to show how common values evolve out of their mutual vulnerabilities. A crucial contribution to the reformulation of political rules for the coexistence between different forms of life.” -- Philippe Descola, Collège de France“This is a delicious book, fun to read and full of bright sparks of insight. Frédéric Keck compares microbiologists to hunters; he mixes and matches his ontologies in relation to particular scientific practices. The exuberance of comparison makes the experiment work. I find it stimulating and good to think with.” -- Anna Tsing, coeditor of * Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene *"This thought-provoking and brilliant book is no doubt timely. Avian Reservoirs inspires us to re-examine our relations with animals and techniques of dealing with zoonotic disease." -- Justin Lau * LSE Review of Books *"The message of [Avian Reservoirs] is both timely and time-honored. The birds and their microbes, like the omens of classical literature, bear witness to a realm of higher truths. We would do well to heed our augurs." -- Priscilla Wald * Public Books *“Ultimately Keck’s work offers a global view of China and the region, and if it remains less invested in the concerns of area studies specialists, it fits nicely with much of contemporary medical anthropology, especially recent work on biology, biosciences, and even environmental history…. Theoretically sophisticated, and holding ethnographical ambitions, Avian Reservoirs offers much to consider with the questions it poses, actively seeking to ‘decenter humans by showing their dependence on other species.’” -- John P. DiMoia * Asian Ethnology *“Avian Reservoirs is a fascinating and timely ethnography on bird flu prevention in East Asia. Frédéric Keck has taken a unique approach to the field of global health that is rich with theoretical insights and fresh methods.” -- Eric I. Karchmer * Journal of Asian Studies *“Avian Reservoirs offers a well-historicized ethnography of key systems of global infectious disease research, surveillance, and prevention.... Keck’s book is essential for scholars interested in pandemic preparedness.” -- Stephen Molldrem * New Genetics and Society *“Frédéric Keck’s illuminating study . . . could not be more timely at a time when the world is in the throes of Covid-19. . . . [Avian Reservoirs] forces us to reflect on the disequilibrium that has created our present crisis.” -- Thomas Abraham * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Avian Reservoirs is a highly creative and unorthodox work, richly informed by interdisciplinary concepts that are folded into the text with care and intellectual fidelity. . . . Avian Reservoirs is a thought-provoking read—imposing order and orientation over disparate, highly charged, and locally varying projects to manage the entanglements between humans, animals, and emerging pathogens." -- Martha Lincoln * China Perspectives *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Animal Diseases 1. Culling, Vaccinating, and Monitoring Contagious Animals 11 2. Biosecurity Concerns and the Surveillance of Zoonoses 29 3. Global Health and the Ecologies of Conservation 44 Part II. Techniques of Preparedness 4. Sentinels and Early Warning Signals 69 5. Simulations and Reverse Scenarios 108 6. Stockpiling and Storage 139 Conclusion 173 Notes 179 Bibliography 211 Index 237
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