New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

   Published: 1/13/2025
2. Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)

   Published: 1/8/2025
3. Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 1/7/2025
4. Rachel Louise Moran, "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 1/2/2025
5. Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/2/2025
6. Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

   Published: 12/31/2024
7. Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

   Published: 12/27/2024
8. AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales

   Published: 12/26/2024
9. Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)

   Published: 12/14/2024
10. Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/13/2024
11. David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/12/2024
12. Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/10/2024
13. Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 11/24/2024
14. Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 11/23/2024
15. Fiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/22/2024
16. Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)

    Published: 11/17/2024
17. Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/15/2024
18. Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 11/11/2024
19. Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/6/2024
20. Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)

    Published: 11/5/2024