British Journal for the History of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal for the History of Science 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-8229-4609-0. $35.00 15
Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 283. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4735-6.13
Jaeyoon Park, Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-0-226-83276-0. $27.50 (cloth).9
Stephen Case, Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-8229-4838-4. $55.00 (hardcover).5
Duplicates under the hammer: natural-history auctions in Berlin's early nineteenth-century collection landscape5
Paulo Galluzzi, The Italian Renaissance of Machines Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-674-98439-4. £37.95 (hardcover). – ERRATUM5
Eric Schatzberg, Technology: Critical History of a Concept Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-226-58397-6. $38.00 (paperback).5
Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi and Marius Buning (eds.), Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 394. ISBN 978-0-262-54559-4. $65.00 (pape4
‘Who can tell me what potable water means?’ The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy4
Colin Webster, Tools and Organisms: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-82877-0. $45.00 (cloth).4
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Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray (eds.), Greedy Science. Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Pp. 384. ISBN 973
Neil Tarrant, Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-226-81942-6. $45.00 (cloth).3
Veronica Della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-4129-1. $65.00 (hardback).3
Negotiating the norms of an international science: standardization work at the International Geological Congress, 1878–18913
Jessica Ratcliff, Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. ISBN 978-1-009-37949-6. £90.00 3
Omar W. Nasim, The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-262-04553-7. $60.00 (paperback).3
Michelle DiMeo, Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-226-73160-5. $45.00 (cloth).3
Maria Cristina Galmarini, Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2024. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-1-5013
Rocket stars, space personas and the global Space Age2
Hans Radder, From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology and Society Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-8229-4579-6. $50.00 (hardcove2
Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 428. ISBN 978-1-4780-2505-4. $26.95 (paperback).2
Anita Guerrini, Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR 2nd edn Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-4214-4405-5. $28.95 (paperback).2
Dipesh Chakrabarty, One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2023. Pp. 144. ISBN: 978-1-6845-8157-3. $24.95 (paper).2
Massimo Mazzotti, Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-2268-2674-5. $37.50 (paperback).2
Roger Smith, Kinasthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 156. ISBN 978-1-032-43590-9. £48.99 (hardback).2
Leapfrogging India:  Vikram Sarabhai and the developmental promise of geocentric spaceflight2
Matthew Shindell, For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-0-226-82189-4. $27.50 (cloth).2
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Nothing but Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-4214-4757-5. $49.95 (hardcover1
Jenny Boulboullé, Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-4780-3096-6. $29.95 (paperback).1
Islamic philosophy and the globalization of science: Ahmed Cevdet's translation of the sixth chapter of Ibn Khaldun'sMuqaddimah1
Mark A. Ragan, Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 816. ISBN 978-0-19-764303-7. £107.50 (hardback).1
Scott Alan Johnston, The Clocks Are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-0-2280-0843-9. CA$49.95 (clot1
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Peter H. Hoffenberg, A Science of Our Own: Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 206. ISBN 978-0-8229-4576-5. $45.00 (cloth).1
Robert J. Sternberg and Wade E. Pickren (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 533. ISBN 978-1-1084-1869-0. $21
Laura Kelly, Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922–92 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 978-1-108-96977-2. $89.99 (hardcover).1
Innovations from the Levant: smallpox inoculation and perceptions of scientific medicine1
Computing as sugar? The sweet and the bitter of social histories of computing1
Paul Warde, Libby Robin and Sverker Sörlin, The Environment: A History of the Idea Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-4214-4002-6. $27.00 (paperback).1
Mauricio Suárez, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-0-226-83004-9. $35.00 (paper).1
Re-examining globalization and the history of science: Ottoman and Middle Eastern experiences1
Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a ‘clearing house’ for colonial plant material, 1891–19201
Epilogue: the many worlds of rock(et) stars1
Philip Glahn and Cary Levine, The Future Is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-262-54807-6. $45.00 (paperback).1
Johan Alfredo Linthorst, Research between Science, Society and Politics: The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry Utrecht: Eburon, 2023. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-9-4630-1434-2. €36.001
‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management1
Liaisons dangereuses : Britain, the US, the Soviet Union and the circulation of knowledge about penicillin (1943–1950)1
Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. 265. ISBN 978-0-2957-4733-0. $40.00 (hardback).1
Communicating science, mediating presence: reflections on the present, past and future of conferencing1
Humus gnosis: soil fertility, research and funding in the life of Sir Albert Howard1
Mark A. Waddell, Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 220. ISBN 978-1-1083-4823-2. £69.99/£19.99 (hardback/paperback).1
Marco Beretta and Paolo Brenni, The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry: The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 425. ISBN 978-90-04-40869-2. €1991
Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché – CORRIGENDUM1
Michel Anctil, Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 467. ISBN: 978-0-77351
‘Not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation’: the life of a quotation in biology1
Milena Ivanova and Steven French, The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-032-33718-0. £110.00 (hardback).1
Carola Sachse, Wissenschaft und Diplomatie: Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Feld der internationale Politik (1945–2000) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 594. ISBN 978-3-525-302061
‘Visible’ compulsions: OCD and the politics of science in British clinical psychology, 1948–19751
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Concluding conversation: decentring science diplomacy1
Michel Morange, The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-6742-8136-3. £40.95 (hardcover).1
Leonie Hannan, A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-5261-5303-6. £85.00 (hardcover).1
Performing national independence through medical diplomacy: tuberculosis control and socialist internationalism in Cold War Vietnam1
‘The troubles of collecting’: William Henry Harvey and the practicalities of natural-history collecting in Britain's nineteenth-century world1
Hugh R. Slotten, Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-4214-4122-1. $55.00 (hard0
Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives0
Claire Hickman, The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 238. ISBN 978-0-3002-3610-1. £30.00 (hardback).0
Finn Arne Jørgensen and Dolly Jørgensen (eds.), Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human–Animal Relationships Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Pp. 366. ISBN 978-0-8229-0
Aaron W. Marrs, The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-4212-4849-7. $64.95 (hardcover).0
Caribou crossings: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, conservation, and stakeholdership in the Anthropocene0
Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. ISBN: 978-0-1988-1862-5. £84.00 (hardback).0
James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 552. ISBN 978-0-6-9123-379-6. £35.00 (hardcover).0
The rise and fall of applied science in Britain0
Medicine and the heavens in Padua's Faculty of Arts, 1570–16300
Efran Sera-Shriar, Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 236. ISBN 970
From museumization to decolonization: fostering critical dialogues in the history of science with a Haida eagle mask0
Crossing boundaries, forging unity: nuclear medicine and science diplomacy in Cold War Europe0
Roberta L. Millstein, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-0-226-83448-1. $29.00 (p0
The art of gathering: histories of international scientific conferences0
Zachary Dorner, Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0680-1. $50.00
Edward B. Davis, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in the Scopes Era Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-1-4214-4982-1. $64.95 (hardcover).0
James J.A. Blair, Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-1-5017-7154-5. 0
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–19000
Andrew J. Hogan, Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-4533-5. $55.00 (0
Andrew Cunningham, ‘I Follow Aristotle’: How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xii + 180. ISBN 987-1-0321-6223-2. £130.00 (hardback).0
Transformations: the material representation of historical experiments in science teaching0
Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives – ERRATUM0
Marjolijn Bol, The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 314. ISBN 978-0-226-82036-1. $55.00 (hardcover).0
Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D. Pooley, Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-100
Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougal-Waters and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665–2015 London: UCL Press, 2022. Pp. 643. ISBN 9780
Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner and Meike Knittel (eds.), Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-90-04-41246-0. €119.00 (h0
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What mysteries lay in spore: taxonomy, data, and the internationalization of mycology in Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum0
Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund, Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 230. ISB0
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 306. ISBN 978-1-5017-6977-1. $56.95 (hardcover).0
Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block (eds), The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 308. ISBN 970
Emma K. Sutton, William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82898-5. $30.00 (paper).0
Fanny Gribenski, Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-82326-3. $55.00 (cloth).0
Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin and Alexis Wolf (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660 London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. 658. ISBN 978-3-0307-8972-5. £149.99 (hardco0
Susan Greenhalgh, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-226-83473-3. $25.00 (paperback).0
Contested duplicates: disputed negotiations surrounding ethnographic doppelgängers in German New Guinea, 1898–19140
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The end of an era0
D. Senthil Babu, Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-8-19-483160-0. ₹1895.00 (hardcover).0
Commercial television and primate ethology: facial expressions between Granada and London Zoo0
Commerce and modern reproduction0
Beatrix Hoffman, Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-226-82086-6. $25.00 (p0
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-82301-0. $35.00 (paper).0
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Comparative globalizations: building and dismantling genetic laboratories in Lebanon0
Jules Skotnes-Brown, Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-1-4214-4856-5. $64.95 (ha0
Mark Thurner and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (eds), The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-032-13916-6. £96.00 (hardback).0
Malinowski and malacology: global value systems and the issue of duplicates0
The celebrification of Qian Xuesen0
Gunnar Broberg, The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 512. ISBN 978-0-691-21342-2. £35.00 (hardcover).0
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Black in space: Arnaldo Tamayo and the Cuban cosmic revolution0
Daniel Strand, Anna Källén and Charlotte Mulcare (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-0-262-54809-0. $45.00 (paperback).0
Matthew H. Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2266-0568-5. $32.00 (paperback).0
Michael Batty, The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-262-54757-4. $45.00 (paperback).0
Curating duplicates: operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–19260
Picturing evolution0
‘The goddess that we serve’: projecting international community at the first serial chemistry conferences, 1893–19140
Scientizing the ‘environment’: Solly Zuckerman and the idea of the School of Environmental Sciences0
Christopher D.E. Willoughby, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 282. ISBN 978-1-469-67184-0. $99.000
Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780
Proxies and partial connections in an anthropologist's archive0
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Philip Ball, Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82582-3. $35.00 (cloth).0
Introduction: the issue of duplicates0
Lydia Barnett, After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-2951-9. $52.00 (hardback). ISBN0
Karl S. Matlin, Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-226-81934-1. $105.00 (cl0
Timothy W. Lorek, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0. $34.95 (paperback).0
Andrew Fiss, A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-9788-2021-0. $150.00 (cloth).0
James Hannam, The Globe: How the Earth Became Round London: Reaktion Books, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-78914-758-2. £16.99 (hardback).0
Fusion divided: what prevented European collaboration on controlled thermonuclear fusion in 19580
Alma Steingart, Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-0-226-82420-8. $35.00 (paperback).0
Alain Aspect, Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 117. ISBN 978-0-226-83201-2. $16.00 (cloth).0
Sex, science and curated community at the World League for Sexual Reform 1929 conference0
Is astrology universal? Early modern globalization and the disruption of traditional knowledge0
Nicole Howard, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500–1750 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-4214-4368-3. $55.00 (hardcover).0
Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1800 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-108-49125-9. $29.99 (paperback).0
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‘Super Bowl of the world conference circuit’? A network approach to high-level science and policy conferencing0
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Lynn M. Thomas, Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-478-00642-8. $107.95 (cloth).0
How did a Lutheran astronomer get converted into a Catholic authority? The Jesuits and their reception of Tycho Brahe in Portugal0
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 424. ISBN 978-0-19-763254-3. £26.99 (hardback).0
Visual duplication: specimens, works of art and photographs at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro (1928–1935)0
Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda Marie Richards (eds.), Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2023. Pp. 400
When Scottish medicine hospitalized Indian magic: Dr James Esdaile's mesmeric surgery in mid-nineteenth-century Bengal0
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Frederico Freitas, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil–Argentina Border Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. ISBN 978-1-1088-4483-3. $103.00 (ha0
Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. xiii + 286. ISBN 978-0-8229-4681-6. $600
Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça, Of Jaguars and Butterflies: Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-1-80073-904-8. £89.00 (hardb0
Michel Anctil, Animal as Machine: The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-2280-1053-1. CS$49.95 (cloth).0
Edward J. Gillin, An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-19-889095-9. £80
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Neeraja Sankaran, A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 312. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4630-40
Nima Bassiri, Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-0-226-83089-6. $35.00 (p0
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Margarete Vöhringer, Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics: Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-1-032-53264-6. £104.00 (hardback).0
Innovation amidst post-socialist reform: Jonas Salk and the birth of the Sabin strains-derived inactivated polio vaccine in China0
John K. Brown, Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4862-6. $35.95 (hardcover).0
Martin Korenjak, Latin Scientific Literature, 1450–1850 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-19-886605-3. £120.00 (hardback).0
Functional informality: crafting social interaction toward scientific productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences, 1950–19800
Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Rebecca Martin and Farrah Lawrence-Mackey (eds.), Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook London: UCL Press, 2023. Pp. xxviii + 446. ISBN 978-1-0
Satellite images as tools of visual diplomacy: NASA's ozone hole visualizations and the Montreal Protocol negotiations0
Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvanist Cliché Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-63714-3. $89.00 (cloth).0
Neil Chambers (ed.), The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, 3 vols. Pp. 464, 418, 548. ISBN 978-1-032-53032-1, 978-1-032-53034-5, 978-1-032-53036-0
J. David Archibald, Critical Lives: Charles Darwin London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-7891-4440-6. $19.00 (paperback).0
Richard Noakes, Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 419. ISBN 978-1-3168-8243-6. £90.00 (hardcover).0
Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai (eds.), Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,0
Imperial entomology: Boris P. Uvarov and locusts, c.1920–c.19500
Petty's instruments: the Down Survey, territorial natural history and the birth of statistics0
Museum film as a means of making museums: the Exploratorium’s early years through the intermedial lens0
Kate MacCord, How Does Germline Regenerate? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 168. ISBN 978-0-226-83051-3. $26.00 (paper).0
Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-2280-1753-0. CA$47.95 (paperback).0
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Neal A. Knapp, Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-4214-4655-4. $60.00 (hardcover).0
Judith A. Houck, Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-0-226-83086-5. $35.00 (paper).0
Alexander Statman, A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-82576-2. $45.00 (cloth).0
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