New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers

   Published: 8/26/2024
2. Regina G. Kunzel, "In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/25/2024
3. Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

   Published: 8/14/2024
4. Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

   Published: 8/13/2024
5. Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/10/2024
6. Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/6/2024
7. Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 8/5/2024
8. Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/2/2024
9. Resonant Grains

   Published: 7/29/2024
10. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

    Published: 7/24/2024
11. Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 7/22/2024
12. Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)

    Published: 7/10/2024
13. Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

    Published: 7/10/2024
14. Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)

    Published: 7/8/2024
15. Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams" (Vintage, 1992)

    Published: 7/7/2024
16. The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)

    Published: 7/6/2024
17. Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/5/2024
18. Pandemics Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science

    Published: 7/2/2024
19. Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

    Published: 6/30/2024
20. Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)

    Published: 6/24/2024