New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Carla Yanni, "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2007)

   Published: 1/28/2022
2. Ginger Nolan, "Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/18/2022
3. Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel, "Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science" (SIAM, 2019)

   Published: 1/17/2022
4. Rebekah Lee, "Health, Healing and Illness in African History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

   Published: 1/17/2022
5. Harry Yi-Jui Wu, "Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization" (MIT Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/14/2022
6. Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)

   Published: 1/13/2022
7. Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)

   Published: 1/11/2022
8. Jonathan B. Edelmann, "Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 1/11/2022
9. Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)

   Published: 1/4/2022
10. Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 1/3/2022
11. Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 12/31/2021
12. Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2021
13. Omar W. Nasim, "The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2021
14. Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2021
15. Melinda Baldwin, "Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

    Published: 12/24/2021
16. Claudia de Rham, “The Pull of the Stars” (Open Agenda, 2021)

    Published: 12/24/2021
17. Luis Lobo-Guerrero et al., "Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

    Published: 12/22/2021
18. Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

    Published: 12/21/2021
19. Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021)

    Published: 12/16/2021
20. Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray, "Technology in World Civilization" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 12/10/2021