New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/2/2023
2. Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 3/27/2023
3. Declan Warde et al., "Safety As We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998" (Wordwell Books, 2022)

   Published: 3/27/2023
4. Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

   Published: 3/24/2023
5. Gordon Barrett, "China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/23/2023
6. Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)

   Published: 3/21/2023
7. Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)

   Published: 3/19/2023
8. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/14/2023
9. Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods

   Published: 3/12/2023
10. Aya Homei, "Science for Governing Japan's Population" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/10/2023
11. Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey

    Published: 3/8/2023
12. H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/8/2023
13. Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/6/2023
14. Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves

    Published: 3/3/2023
15. Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/3/2023
16. Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)

    Published: 3/2/2023
17. Garima Garg, "Heavens and Earth: The Story of Astrology Through Ages and Cultures" (Penguin, 2023)

    Published: 2/20/2023
18. Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)

    Published: 2/19/2023
19. Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)

    Published: 2/13/2023
20. Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

    Published: 2/3/2023