New Books in the History of Science
A podcast by New Books Network
747 Episodes
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Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Published: 12/18/2022 -
Shelley Fraser Mickle, "Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality" (Imagine, 2020)
Published: 12/17/2022 -
Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Published: 12/15/2022 -
Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Published: 12/12/2022 -
Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
Published: 12/5/2022 -
Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
Published: 12/3/2022 -
Irene Hilden, "Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies" (Leuven UP, 2022)
Published: 12/3/2022 -
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Published: 11/29/2022 -
Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Published: 11/24/2022 -
Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
Published: 11/24/2022 -
Probability
Published: 11/22/2022 -
Science Against the People: Anti-Capitalist Science
Published: 11/16/2022 -
Anita Guerrini, "Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Published: 11/16/2022 -
Melancholy
Published: 11/15/2022 -
The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
Published: 11/8/2022 -
Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Published: 11/4/2022 -
David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
Published: 11/2/2022 -
Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)
Published: 11/2/2022 -
John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Published: 10/31/2022 -
Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Published: 10/31/2022
Interviews with historians of science about their new books