New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

   Published: 8/30/2022
2. Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

   Published: 8/29/2022
3. Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 8/26/2022
4. On Edwin Hubble’s "The Realm of the Nebulae"

   Published: 8/22/2022
5. Elena Aronova, "Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

   Published: 8/19/2022
6. Lindsay Starkey, "Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/9/2022
7. Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)

   Published: 8/4/2022
8. Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)

   Published: 8/1/2022
9. The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science

   Published: 7/29/2022
10. Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

    Published: 7/29/2022
11. Lachlan Fleetwood, "Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 7/28/2022
12. Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)

    Published: 7/25/2022
13. Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

    Published: 7/14/2022
14. “Vaccine: The Human Story”: A Chat with Historian and Podcaster Annie Kelly

    Published: 7/8/2022
15. Sarah Fox, "Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2022)

    Published: 7/7/2022
16. Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)

    Published: 7/6/2022
17. Christina Ramos, "Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" (UNC Press, 2022)

    Published: 7/1/2022
18. Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

    Published: 6/29/2022
19. Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)

    Published: 6/23/2022
20. Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

    Published: 6/22/2022