This book examines the global history of allegedly scientific mechanical cures commonly used to combat internal and chronic diseases and explores how and why the professional demarcation between orthodox and irregular medicine evolved....Lasīt vairāk
Split into two volumes, volume 2 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants host communities in Britain and Germany from t...Lasīt vairāk
Split into two volumes, volume 1 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants host communities in Britain and Germany from t...Lasīt vairāk
This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée....Lasīt vairāk
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (18231922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents....Lasīt vairāk
This book is an interconnected history of the evolution of global health in the decades before 2019, told through the prism of six decisive moments in which individuals from the World Health Organisation, philanthropic foundations, academia and bila...Lasīt vairāk
The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role of poiesis and imagination play in our understanding of science and of progress is widely explored in this book through taking an eclectic approach to arguing for the reestablishment of ima...Lasīt vairāk
This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on existential risks....Lasīt vairāk
Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and in the broader system of American higher education during the post-World War II decades....Lasīt vairāk
This volume is a comprehensive study of George Wilson, a leading advocate for evangelical science and for the role of biology in technology it examines his work to develop a unitary vision of Victorian science and technology by drawing upon religio...Lasīt vairāk
This book looks at how the English workplace changed through a greater awareness of germs from c.1880 to 1945. Cutting across a number of different workplaces, it offers new perspectives on the history of the peoples, politics, and practices associa...Lasīt vairāk
This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals, showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the history of international efforts to contagious animal diseases from the 1860s to the mid-1940s. It shows the historical challenges of developing international strategies to urgent global problem areas for which there are still...Lasīt vairāk
This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge....Lasīt vairāk
In bringing together for the first time four groups of specialists - doctors, coroners, lawyers and police officers - this monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales and offers a new inter...Lasīt vairāk
This edited collection speaks to a dual interest, by providing innovative and authoritative analyses of the history of Arctic science during the Cold War....Lasīt vairāk
The so-called Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre (PHC), was one of the most important social experiments of the modern era. Combining a micro-historical perspective with approaches from...Lasīt vairāk
The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he was one of the first anthropologists to investigate humankind as part of natural history. Moreover,...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume tells eleven Urban Histories of Science from cities situated on the margins of Europe around 1900. Most diverse scientific practices were intimately intertwined with the dynamics of the urban space. This book shows that the perip...Lasīt vairāk
Research into public health policies and hygiene instruction has been oriented traditionally in the national context and there is a rich historiography that analyses the development of health policies and systems in various European and American cou...Lasīt vairāk
Ichikawa analyses the complicated interactions among various factors, including the indigenous contradictions in the historical development of science in the Soviet Union; conflicts among the related interest groups; relationships with the political...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the western world....Lasīt vairāk
Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market shows how the radiation therapy specialty in the United States (later called radiation oncology) co-evolved with its device industry throughout the twentieth-century....Lasīt vairāk
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic....Lasīt vairāk
Intrigued by broader debates in the humanities on the spatial turn, the authors contribute to a more explicit and systematic development of spatial thinking in the history of ecology....Lasīt vairāk
This unique volume provides the first detailed account of Britains Command, Control, Comunications and Intelligence infrastructure, focusing on the British-American atomic relation- ship and its implications for NATO strategy....Lasīt vairāk
This book traces the development of ideas about the transmission of disease during the last century to a point where a clear distinction was established between transmission by infection and genetic transmission....Lasīt vairāk
Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate. Through the use of ethnographic, media, and narrative analyses, this book explores the vernacular explanatory mo...Lasīt vairāk
Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science provides detailed case studies ranging from post-War nuclear science to contemporary climatology of how sovereignty has been constructed, reaffirmed, and transform...Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that the relationship between Britain and France helped to disseminate a culture of research and resulted in the transformation of the medical sciences and the pharmaceutical industry in both countries....Lasīt vairāk
A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called prion diseases, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)....Lasīt vairāk
Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography and methodology of recent and contemporary science, this book reviews the problems facing historians of technology, contemporary science and medicine and explores new ways forward....Lasīt vairāk
Answering questions such as whether the interesting parts of science be conveyed in sermons, poems, pictures and journalism, Knight explores the history of science to show how the successes and failures of our ancestors can help us understand the po...Lasīt vairāk
This book charts the history and development of one of the most important medical substances of the twentieth century, Interferon, as a drug....Lasīt vairāk
With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of mapping procedures as they were developed in classical genetics....Lasīt vairāk
With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of molecular genetics and genomics....Lasīt vairāk
This unique comparative history of scientific policies and practices in the 20th century brings together a number of case studies to examine the relationship between science and the dominant ideology of a state....Lasīt vairāk
This socio-historical approach to the early developments in the fight against cancer describes how scientific, therapeutic, philanthropic, ethical, social, economics and political interest combined to transform medicine....Lasīt vairāk
We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book looks at the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture....Lasīt vairāk
The Analogue Alternative tracks the development, commercialisation and ultimate decline of the electronic analogue computer in the USA and Britain....Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture....Lasīt vairāk
Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this field. This book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of them....Lasīt vairāk
