Isis

Papers
(The median citation count of Isis is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series11
Richard Noakes. Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain. (Science in History.) 418 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. $96 (cloth)11
Jost Lemmerich. Max von Laue—Furchtlos und treu: Eine Biographie des Nobelpreisträgers für Physik. 591 pp., illus. Rangsdorf: Basilisken-Presse, 2020. €68 (cloth); ISBN 9783941365568.9
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19149
Judith Farquhar; Lili Lai. Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South. 304 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $9
John Troyer. Technologies of the Human Corpse. 272 pp., illus. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $24.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780262043816. Paper and e-book available.8
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture7
Neeraja Sankaran. A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. $7
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20236
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers6
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines6
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science6
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture5
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal5
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry5
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism5
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)5
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano5
Reservations4
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica4
Note from the Editors4
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide4
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing4
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19003
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Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)3
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)3
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s3
William J. Ashworth. The Trinity Circle: Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 23
The Post-Heroic Field3
An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics3
The Prenatal Gaze3
Ilaria Scaglia. The Emotions of Internationalism: Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period. (Emotions in History.) 256 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford Univ3
Bill Jenkins. Evolution before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834. 232 pp., bibl. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2019. £80 (cloth); ISBN 97814743
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society2
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:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World2
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene2
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Emmanuel Didier. America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics. Translated by Priya Vari Sen. 432 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pres2
Veronica della Dora. The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor. 416 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $65 (cloth); ISBN 97802262
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States2
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain2
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)2
A “Wild Swing to Phantsy”: The Philosophical Gardener and Emergent Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science2
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:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges2
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs2
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
Paul J. Nahin. Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Cable. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. 232 pp., app2
Introduction2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
Kenny Cupers; Catharina Gabrielsson; Helena Mattsson (Editors). Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present. (Culture, Politics, and the Built Env2
John Bellamy Foster. The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. 672 pp., notes, indexes. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9781583678367. Paper and e-book available.2
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17002
Frances E. Dolan. Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture. (Haney Foundation Series.) 280 pp., figs., notes, index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pre1
:The Earth Transformed: An Untold History1
Vaccination and Pandemics1
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
In Reply1
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
Christian Reiß. Der Axolotl: Ein Labortier im Heimaquarium 1864–1914. 304 pp., figs., bibl., index. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2020. €30.80 (cloth). E-book available.1
Dwaipayan Banerjee. Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi. (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography.) 240 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Durham, N.C./London: D1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India1
The Submerged Nation: Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond1
Harry Yi-Jui Wu. Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization. 240 pp., illus., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2021. $35 (paper)1
Giovanni Battimelli; Giovanni Ciccotti; Pietro Greco. Computer Meets Theoretical Physics: The New Frontier of Molecular Simulation. Translated by G. Giobbi. (The Frontiers Collection.) 206 pp.,1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
Alisha Rankin. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiments, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 20211
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love1
:Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis1
An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
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:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible1
:Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
:Science for Governing Japan’s Population1
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
:Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear1
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Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science1
Elizabeth Baigent; André Reyes Novaes (Editors). Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 37. viii + 200 pp., index. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2019. $176 (cloth); ISBN 9781350085503.1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
:A Book of Waves1
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:Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity1
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
:David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
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:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
Timothy M. Harrison. Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England. 328 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $30 (paper); ISBN 9780226725123. Cl1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
:The Doctor Who Would Be King1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan1
The Product of Practices: How Natural History and Mathematical Physics Gave Meaning to Cartography’s Depth Contour Lines1
Hannah Marcus. Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy. 360 pp., bibl., index, halftones, tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $45 (cl1
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
Rethinking Collaboration: Medical Research and Working Relationships at the Iranian Pasteur Institute1
David Trippett; Benjamin Walton (Editors). Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination. xv + 381 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £90 (1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
Mistress of the Sciences, Asylum of Liberty: Joseph Priestley, Human Rights, and Science in the Early U.S. Republic1
The Origins of Modern Science in the Classroom1
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust1
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
:The Bureaucracy of Empathy: Law, Vivisection, and Animal Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
:The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration1
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
Rebekah Lee. Health, Healing, and Illness in African History. 272 pp., illus., notes, index. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. £58.50 (cloth); ISBN 9781474254380. Paper and e-book available.1
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931–2022)1
Jennifer M. Rampling The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700. (Synthesis.) 416 pp., 19 halftones, 2 tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $35 (cloth); I1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism1
:Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War1
Sophie Brockmann. The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838. xiv + 268 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre1
Marga Vicedo. Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother. 272 pp., notes, index. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021. $28.95 (cloth); ISBN 1
Morris Low. Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xiii + 260 pp., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. $11
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar1
:The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
Philip Beeley; Yelda Nasifoglu; Benjamin Wardhaugh (Editors). Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books. (Material Reading1
:The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”1
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
:Latin as the Language of Science and Learning1
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
Hidden, Lost, and Forgotten Labor: A Tour of the Society’s Archival Record1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
Lara Freidenfelds. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America. 256 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. $29.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780190869816. E-book available.1
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Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
:Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 19001
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy1
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:Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America1
:A History of the Wind1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
Ido Hartogsohn. American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century. 432 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $35 (paper); ISBN 978026251
Mark Solovey. Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation. 408 pp., figs. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. $50 (paper); IS1
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:On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief1
Juan Carlos González Espitia. Sifilografía: A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World. (Writing the Early Americas.) 412 pp., bibl., index. Charlottesville: Univers1
:Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–17501
Pankaj Sekhsaria. Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory. (Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects.) xxii + 126 pp., app., refs., index. London: Routledge, 2018. $60 (clot1
:Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education1
Greta LaFleur. The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. 304 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9781421438849. Clot1
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
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Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
Matthew Shindell. The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey. (Synthesis.) 248 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $27.50 (cloth); ISBN 9780226662081
The Works of Francis Bacon: A Victorian Classic in the History of Science1
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
Sean Quinlan. Morbid Undercurrents: Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France. xiv + 336 pp., illus., notes, index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. $45 (cloth); ISBN 97815011
:States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–19451
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes1
:The Astronomer’s Chair: A Visual and Cultural History1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
:Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain1
:Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society1
Letter to the Editors1
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan1
Editors’ Note1
:The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History1
David Sepkoski. Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene. 360 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–17201
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America1
The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr. Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860–1910). 240 pp. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9780826521
Open-Access Resource for Instructors and Students of History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean1
:From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World1
Antonio Badia. The Information Manifold: Why Computers Can’t Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News. xvii + 352 pp., refs., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. $50 (cloth); ISBN 978026204301
Charles H. Smith; James T. Costa; David A. Collard (Editors). An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion. v + 439 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $60 (cloth1
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
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Jacob Steere-Williams. The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England. (Rochester Studies in Medical History.) 340 pp., illus., bibl., index. Rochester,1
:Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–18301
Phillip Reid. The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology. (Technology and Change in History, 18.) xiv + 308 pp., illus. Leiden: Brill, 21
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
Epidemic Histories in East Asia1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
David A. Guba Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France. (Intoxicating Histories.) 384 pp., notes, index. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. $37.95 (paper1
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
Letter to the Editor1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
Felipe Rojas. The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons. xvii + 244 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75 (cloth); ISBN 978110848481
Sajjad Nikfahm; Fateme Savadi (Editors). Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī’s al-Risāla al-Muʿīniyya (The Muʿīniyya Treatise) and Its Supplement. (Critical Edition of the Persian Texts, 1.) 354 pp. 1
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine1
When a Wonder Is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
Joachim Schummer; Tom Børsen (Editors). Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering. 568 pp., indexes. Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific, 2021. $198 (cloth); ISBN 97898112335311
:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment1
Whose Home Is the Field?1
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