New Books in the History of Science
A podcast by New Books Network
747 Episodes
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Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Published: 8/4/2021 -
Anthony Q. Hazard, "Boasians at War: Anthropology, Race, and World War II" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Published: 7/28/2021 -
Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)
Published: 7/27/2021 -
Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
Published: 7/22/2021 -
James Robert Brown, “Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Published: 7/22/2021 -
Andrew Jenks, "Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth" (Anthem Press, 2021)
Published: 7/21/2021 -
John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
Published: 7/19/2021 -
Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021)
Published: 7/16/2021 -
Adam Crymble, "Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Published: 7/15/2021 -
Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Published: 7/14/2021 -
Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Published: 7/13/2021 -
Martin Summers, "Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Published: 7/7/2021 -
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Published: 6/28/2021 -
Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Published: 6/2/2021 -
Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Published: 5/26/2021 -
Deborah R. Coen, "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
Published: 5/21/2021 -
Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Published: 5/17/2021 -
Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
Published: 5/5/2021 -
Jörg Matthias Determann, "Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
Published: 5/5/2021 -
Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Published: 4/29/2021
Interviews with historians of science about their new books