Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (14 volume set)
Gregg Mitman (Editor); Michelle Murphy (Editor); Christopher Sellers (Editor); Linda Nash; William R. Newman; Leah Devun; H. Glenn Penny; Jessica Wang; David Aubin; Darin Hayton; Peter Pesic;
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press Journals, 2002
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14 volume set, printed 2002-2015. From the library of noted scholar Caroline Hannaway. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Interesting articles in this collection include: The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World War II California by Linda Nash; Poisoned Food, Poisoned Uniforms, and Anthrax: Or, How Guerillas Die in War by Luise White; Reflections of a Troglodyte Historian of Science by Edward Grant; Robert Boyle, Transmutation, and the History of Chemistry before Lavoisier: A Response to Kuhn by William R. Newman; Erecting Sex: Hermaphrodites and the Medieval Science of Surgery by Leah Devun; Manliness and Exploration: The Discover of the North Pole; Sexual Violence, Predatory Masculinity, and Medical Testimony is New Spain by Zeb Tortorici; The Civic Uses of Science: Ethnology and Civil Society in Imperial Germany by H. Glenn Penny; Scientists and the Problem of the Public in Cold War America 1945-1960 by Jessica Wang; The Fading Star of the Paris Observatory in the Nineteenth Century: Astronomers' Urban Culture of Circulation and Observation by David Aubin; Exploring the City of Rubble: Botanical Fieldwork in Bombed Cities in Germany after World War II by Jens Lachmund; Expertise ex Stellis: Comets, Horoscopes, and Politics in Renaissance Hungary by Darin Hayton; Leibniz and the Wind Machines by Andre Wakefield; The Letter from Dublin: Climate Change, Colonialism, and the Royal Society in the Seventeenth Century by Brant Vogel; Thomas Young's Musical Optics: Translating Sound into Light by Peter Pesic; Changeable Ears: Ernst Mach's and Max Planck's Studies of Accommodation in Hearing by Alexandra Hui; Points Critical: Russia, Ireland, and Science at the Boundary by Michael D. Gordin; Germans in Russia: Cold War, Technology Transfer, and National Identity by Asif A. Siddiqi; The Heidelberg Circle: German Inflections on the Professionalization of Russian Chemistry in the 1860s by Michael D. Gordin; The Phenomenon of Soviet Science by Alexei Kojevnikov; Weimar Psychotechnics between Americanism and Fascism by Andreas Killen. Contents: 17. Science and Civil Society; 18. Science and the City; 19. Landscapes of Exposure; 20. Politics and Science in Wartime; 21. Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs; 22. The Self as Project: Politics and the Human Sciences; 23. Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960; 24. National Identity: the Role of Science and Technology; 25 Expertise: Practical Knowledge and the Early Modern State; 26. Klima; 27. Clio Meets Science; 28. Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980; 29. Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World; 30. Scientific Masculinities. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Caroline Hannaway was a historian of medicine with close ties to the Johns Hopkins Departments of History of Medicine and History of Science and Technology.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (14 volume set)
- Author
- Gregg Mitman (Editor); Michelle Murphy (Editor); Christopher Sellers (Editor); Linda Nash; William R. Newman; Leah Devun; H. Glenn Penny; Jessica Wang; David Aubin; Darin Hayton; Peter Pesic;
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press Journals
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 6x0x10
- Seller catalogs
- Science, Math, Space and Engineering
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