New Books in the History of Science
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Michael Rossi, "The Republic of Color: Science,...
An interview with Michael Rossi
54 min
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Earl Wright II, "Jim Crow Sociology: The Black ...
Interview with Earl Wright II
60 min
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Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: A...
An interview with Brian Deer
51 min
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Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Im...
An interview with Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
49 min
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L. Ferlier and B. Miyamoto, "Forms, Formats and...
Interview with Louisiane Ferlier and Benedicte Miyamoto
59 min
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Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges ...
An interview with Andrew Jewett
38 min
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Jonathan Sadowsky, "The Empire of Depression: A...
An interview with Jonathan Sadowsky
71 min
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Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and th...
An interview with Elizabeth Catte
61 min
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Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History o...
An interview with Jeff Levin
51 min
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David Fedman, "Seeds of Control: Seeds of Contr...
An interview with David Fedman
108 min
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Alicia Puglionesi, "Common Phantoms: An America...
Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century...
53 min
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Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages...
28 min
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Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophy...
Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....
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Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illus...
Crews challenges us with an extensive psychological profile of the legend here revealed as scam artist....
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Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women ...
Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...
28 min
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Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of...
Just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself....
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D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A...
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the ear, eye, and intellect..,
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Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall ...
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia...
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Kat Arney, "Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and ...
We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender shape our social identities, and thus who we perceive as "like us" or "not like us". But one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak....
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M. del Pilar Blanco and J. Page, "Geopolitics, ...
del Pilar Blanco and Page offer a wonderful and imaginative contribution to the fields of history of science, science and technology studies, and cultural studies....
60 min
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Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U C...
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins...
71 min
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David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History ...
Bressoud takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today...
84 min
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Emily Pawley, "The Nature of the Future: Agricu...
Pawley examines a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—and follows thousands of “improving agriculturists,..
61 min
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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and th...
Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....
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Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Soc...
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable....
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