New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Christopher G. White, “Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions” (Harvard UP, 2018)

   Published: 7/4/2018
2. Joy Rohde, “Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research During the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2013)

   Published: 6/27/2018
3. Londa Schiebinger, “Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Stanford UP, 2017)

   Published: 6/27/2018
4. Lisa Walters, “Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science, and Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

   Published: 6/12/2018
5. Kyla Schuller, “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century” (Duke UP, 2017)

   Published: 6/1/2018
6. Lydia Kang, “Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything” (Workman Publishing Company, 2017)

   Published: 5/22/2018
7. Martha Few, “For All Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala” (U Arizona Press, 2015)

   Published: 5/18/2018
8. Sigrid Schmalzer, et. al., “Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists (UMass Press, 2018)

   Published: 4/23/2018
9. James Delbourgo, “Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane” (Allen Lane, 2017)

   Published: 2/9/2018
10. Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)

    Published: 12/29/2017
11. Jason Josephson-Storm, “The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences” (U. Chicago, 2017)

    Published: 12/21/2017
12. Anthony Chaney, “Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness” (UNC Press, 2017)

    Published: 11/1/2017
13. Michael Wintroub, “The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge Across the Sixteenth-Century World” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

    Published: 10/4/2017
14. Iwan Rhys Morus, ed.,”The Oxford Illustrated History of Science” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 9/7/2017
15. Tamara Plakins Thornton, “Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life” (UNC Press, 2016)

    Published: 8/27/2017
16. Britt Rusert, “Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture” (NYU Press, 2017)

    Published: 5/26/2017
17. Tara H. Abraham, “Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science” (MIT Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/11/2017
18. Helen Anne Curry, “Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/8/2017
19. J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 4/29/2017
20. Tania Munz, “The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)

    Published: 4/25/2017