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Science Studies

Gender

Early Emory Medicine Yearbooks: Race, Class, Region, Gender

A Review of Race, Class, Region and Gender in Early Emory Medicine Yearbooks, by Moya Bailey. Moya Bailey’s innovative dissertation, Race, Class, Regi...
Economic History

Chemistry in Imperial and Weimar Germany

A review of Citizens of the Chemical Complex: Industrial Expertise and Science Philanthropy in Imperial and Weimar Germany, by Juan-Andres Leon. The G...
Iran/Persian

Science and Society in Medieval Islam

A review of Science and Society in Medieval Islam: Nasir al-Din Tusi and the Politics of Patronage, by Hadi Jorati. With his extraordinary grasp of......
China

Madness in Republican China

A review of Spits, Chains, and Hospital Beds: A History of Madness in Republican Beijing, 1912-1938, by Emily Lauren Baum. This widely researched diss...
Science Studies

Nutrition and Politics in Saxon Germany, 1890-1935

A review of The Politics of the Table: Nutrition and the Telescopic Body in Saxon Germany, 1890-1935, by Kristen Ann Ehrenberger. In The Politics of.....
Science Studies

Human-Animal Interactions in Bristol Zoo

A review of The Natures of the Beasts: An Animal History of Bristol Zoo Gardens since 1835, by Andrew Flack. The Natures of the Beasts...
Science Studies

Colonial Botany in British India

A review of Making Useful Knowledge: British Naturalists in Colonial India, 1784-1820 by Minakshi Menon. This dissertation takes for its remit the eme...
Science Studies

Anatomical Collections in 19th-c. Medicine

A review of Preparations on the Move: The Leiden Anatomical Collections in the Nineteenth Century, by Hieke Huistra. In the nineteenth century, medici...
China

Coal and East Asian Industrial Development, 1900-1957

A review of Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern, 1900-1957, by Victor Kian Giap Seow. In Carbon Technocracy, Victo...
Science Studies

Science, Governance, and Empire in the 18th- and 19th-c. Low Countries

A review of Hybrid Ambitions: Science, Governance, and Empire in the Career of Caspar G.C. Reinwardt (1773-1854), by Andreas Weber. By focusing on lat...
Science Studies

Science, Climatology, and Environmental Stability in the 20th-c. U.S.

A review of Climates on the Move: Climatology and the Problem of Economic and Environmental Stability in the Career of C.W. Thornthwaite, 1933-1963, b...
China

The Birth of the Chinese Population

A review of The Birth of the Chinese Population: A Study in the History of Governmental Logics by Malcolm Thompson. One is tempted to describe...
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