Isis

Papers
(The TQCC of Isis is 1. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture15
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers15
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)14
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 202312
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science12
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–191411
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture9
:Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–18509
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica8
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing6
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano6
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide6
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism4
Note from the Editors4
Front Cover4
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal4
: Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706–18144
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry4
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19004
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)3
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)3
“What Difference Does that Make to a Med?” The Sensory and Social Regimes of the Dissecting Room at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania3
Jules Skotnes-Brown. Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge and Boundaries in South  Africa, 1910-1948. 344 pp. notes, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. $64.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781423
The Prenatal Gaze3
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science3
: Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki3
Securing the Monkey Supply Chain: Toward a Critical Logistical History of Laboratory Animal Science3
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
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World3
Spectacles of Waste3
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs2
Front Cover2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)2
Introduction2
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine2
Front Matter2
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity2
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
Eloge: Michael Mark Sokal (1945-2025)1
Eloge: Juan José Saldaña González (1944–2022)1
Stephen Buono. The Province of All Mankind. 348 pp. illus., notes, index. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9781501782923. Cloth and e-book available.1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
Substitution, Confusion, and the Origins of Aloe Vera1
Christianizing America, School District by School District1
: Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig1
:Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
:Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach1
: Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830–18801
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
: Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–19201
Eloge: Mary Terrall (1952–2023)1
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
Contents of Isis , Volume 1161
:Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America’s Techno-Spy Empire1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines1
The Isis Bibliography: Information Practices from Sarton’s Vision to the Digital Age1
:Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation1
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain1
: The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano1
Vaccination and Pandemics1
Front Matter1
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.1
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 20221
:Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare1
: Handling “Occult Qualities” in the Scientific Revolution: Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, from John Dee to Isaac Newton1
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution1
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
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society1
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution1
:The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health1
:Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
: Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling1
:A History of the Wind1
: Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America1
Eloge: Ronald L. Numbers (1942–2023)1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
Eloge: Jitendra Pal Singh (J. P. S.) Uberoi (1934–2024)1
Energy’s History: Toward a Global Canon1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
:Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–19601
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
:The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
:Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–19551
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
:150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium1
:The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy1
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
Front Matter1
The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary1
Front Matter1
: The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 14921
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17001
Cultures of Measurement: Physics, Medicine, and Quantification in Early X-Ray Therapy1
Failed Historical Scientific Instruments1
: Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact1
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France1
Ana Romero de Pablos. Las primeras centrales nucleares españolas: Actores, políticas y tecnologías. 135 pp., illus., bibl. Madrid: Sociedad Nuclear Española, 2019. Free e-book; ISBN 978840908491
Front Matter1
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden1
:China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
:Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming1
:Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health1
Letter to the Editors1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar1
Teaching with Isis: From The Cultural Turn to TikTok1
Administration of Perception: Observing and Transcribing Dead Bodies in the Forensic Methodology of Qing China (1644–1912)1
Introduction1
: Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder and the Evolution of American Archaeology1
The Deaf Right Stuff: Disability, Space Sickness, and the Making of the American Astronaut, 1955–19681
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
:Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate1
Rereading Malthus: Darwin and the Historians1
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America1
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
Errata1
: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony: From Sound to Music1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
:Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
:States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–19451
History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture1
:Alexander Williamson: A Victorian Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan1
: Histoire de l’interdisciplinarité: Un mot, des pratiques1
Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine1
:Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography1
: Cyclotron1
Front Cover1
Front Matter1
: Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology1
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
Acknowledgments1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
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 97802261
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023)1
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.1
Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Marta de Almeida. Ciências e Tecnologias num Brasil (in)dependente. 526 pp. Brasilia: Editora Ibict, 2025. Open Access (ebook); ISBN 9788570131737. Cloth available.1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions1
:The Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral: Function and Significance1
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
Jung Lee. Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea. 226 pp., figs., bibl., index. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2025. £155 (cloth); ISBN 9781032836256. E-book available.1
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Courtney E. Thompson. An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America. 248 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2020. $1201
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