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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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
HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series11
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
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
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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
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.7
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture6
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science6
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers5
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)5
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20235
James Poskett. Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920. 373 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $45 (cloth5
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines5
An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics4
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism4
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry4
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide4
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano4
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture4
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal4
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Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19003
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica3
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
Reservations3
Note from the Editors3
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)3
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
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing3
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s3
The Prenatal Gaze3
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Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)2
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
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Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World2
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 Univ2
The Post-Heroic Field2
A “Wild Swing to Phantsy”: The Philosophical Gardener and Emergent Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World2
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs2
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society2
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History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
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Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)2
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
: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
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
Introduction2
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
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science2
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene2
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
:Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society1
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
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
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
:A History of the Wind1
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
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
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
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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
:Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century1
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
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
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century1
:Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
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
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object1
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 Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
Epidemic Histories in East Asia1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
William R. Shea. Conversations with Galileo. Foreword by Dava Sobel. xi + 115 pp., notes. London: Watkins Media, 2019. $14.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781786782496. E-book available.1
Shooting Chicken Embryos: The Making of Ludwig Gräper’s Embryological Films, 1911–19401
:Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–18301
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
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:Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India1
Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
Michael Kaasch; Joachim Kaasch; Torsten K. D. Himmel (Editors). Biologie in der DDR: Beiträge zur 24. Jahrestagung der DGGTB in Greifswald 2015. (Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Bi1
:On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief1
:The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration1
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
The Complicated History of Science and Religion1
Whose Home Is the Field?1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
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:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India1
:Latin as the Language of Science and Learning1
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
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
Open-Access Resource for Instructors and Students of History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean1
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty1
In Reply1
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931–2022)1
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy1
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
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
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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
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
Eloge: Neale W. Watson (1934–2019)1
Remaking “Michotte”: Reusing and Remaking Moving Images in the History of Perception Research1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust1
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
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
Hidden, Lost, and Forgotten Labor: A Tour of the Society’s Archival Record1
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
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
:Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One1
Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century1
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
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
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
:David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
Mistress of the Sciences, Asylum of Liberty: Joseph Priestley, Human Rights, and Science in the Early U.S. Republic1
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
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
Letter to the Editor1
Elena Aronova. Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. 256 pp., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Pre1
:Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
Trais Pearson. Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam. 252 pp., figs., app., notes, bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. $24.99 (e-book); ISBN 1
:The Doctor Who Would Be King1
The Submerged Nation: Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines1
:Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
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
Editors’ Note1
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:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
:Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–17501
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
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–17201
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge1
:Science for Governing Japan’s Population1
Reusable and Nonreusable Films: From Ballistic Films to the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia. Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan. xiii + 317 pp., figs., bibl., notes, index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. $30 (paper); ISBN 97811
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
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
Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
:A Book of Waves1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt1
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
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
Rethinking Collaboration: Medical Research and Working Relationships at the Iranian Pasteur Institute1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
:From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
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 Env1
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
:Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 19001
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
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:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
The Product of Practices: How Natural History and Mathematical Physics Gave Meaning to Cartography’s Depth Contour Lines1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
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
Jürgen Renn. The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene. 585 pp., notes, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780691171981
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata1
:Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
Francisco Malta Romeiras. Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal. (Jesuit Studies.) 195 pp., figs., app., index. Leiden: Brill, 2019. $139 (e-book); ISBN 978901
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
:Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War1
:The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
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:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
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
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love1
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
When a Wonder Is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
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:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan1
The Works of Francis Bacon: A Victorian Classic in the History of Science1
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
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
Elizabeth Baigent; André Reyes Novaes (Editors). Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 37. viii + 200 pp., index. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2019. $176 (cloth); ISBN 9781350085503.1
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
:The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
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