New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Sarah Walsh, "The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

   Published: 5/5/2022
2. William F. Eadie, "When Communication Became a Discipline" (Lexington, 2021)

   Published: 5/2/2022
3. Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)

   Published: 4/29/2022
4. Emily Klancher Merchant, "Building the Population Bomb" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/28/2022
5. Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)

   Published: 4/28/2022
6. Nancy L Segal, "Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

   Published: 4/27/2022
7. Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World

   Published: 4/27/2022
8. Rod Tanchanco, "First Patients: The Incredible True Stories of Pioneer Patients" (First Hawk, 2022)

   Published: 4/20/2022
9. Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/13/2022
10. James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)

    Published: 4/12/2022
11. Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)

    Published: 4/5/2022
12. Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 3/30/2022
13. Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID

    Published: 3/30/2022
14. Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)

    Published: 3/25/2022
15. Emily J. Levine, "Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University" (UChicago Press, 2021)

    Published: 3/25/2022
16. John Bellamy Foster, "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" (Monthly Review Press, 2021)

    Published: 3/23/2022
17. John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/21/2022
18. Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)

    Published: 3/16/2022
19. Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund, "Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

    Published: 3/16/2022
20. Carl R. Weinberg, "Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism In America" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/10/2022