New Books in the History of Science
A podcast by New Books Network
747 Episodes
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Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Published: 9/21/2021 -
Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Published: 9/17/2021 -
Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Published: 9/17/2021 -
Alexander Wragge-Morley, "Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Published: 9/17/2021 -
Paul Shankman, "Margaret Mead" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Published: 9/17/2021 -
Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021)
Published: 9/10/2021 -
H. Glenn Penny, "In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Published: 9/6/2021 -
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
Published: 9/1/2021 -
Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp, "Systems Thinkers" (Springer, 2020)
Published: 9/1/2021 -
Jennifer L. Lambe, "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (UNC Press, 2017)
Published: 8/31/2021 -
Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Published: 8/31/2021 -
Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Published: 8/30/2021 -
Kirsten A. Greer, "Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
Published: 8/25/2021 -
Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Published: 8/23/2021 -
Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
Published: 8/19/2021 -
Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
Published: 8/16/2021 -
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Published: 8/16/2021 -
Martha Few et al., "Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
Published: 8/16/2021 -
John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Published: 8/6/2021 -
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Published: 8/5/2021
Interviews with historians of science about their new books