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Science Studies

Science Studies

Experimenting with Chemical Bodies

A review of Experimenting with Chemical Bodies: Science, Medicine, and Philosophy in the Long History of Reinier de Graaf’s Experiments on Digestion, ...
Media Studies

Revealing the Sensorial World of Plants

A review of The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Neurobiology, by Laura Cinti. Laura Cinti’s dissert...
Museum Studies

Aesthesis & the Leiden Anatomical Collections

A review of Aesthesis in Anatomy: Materiality and Elegance in the Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections, by Marieke Maria Anna Hendriksen B...
Latin America

Colonial Scientific Literature of the Americas

A review of Mining Empire, Planting Empire: The Colonial Scientific Literatures of the Americas, by Allison Margaret Bigelow. Mining Empire, Planting ...
Japan

Clocks & Time in Edo Japan

A review of Clocks and Time in Edo Japan, by Yulia Frumer. The logic of mechanical clock faces is seemingly obvious. We look at them...
Fresh from the Archives

Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg

A review of The Institute of Experimental Medicine (Научно–исследовательный институт экспериментальной медицины) (St. Petersburg). In November o...
Science Studies

The Sonification of Scientific Data

A review of Lobbying for the Ear: The Public Fascination with and Academic Legitimacy of the Sonification of Scientific Data, by Alexandra Supper. Son...
Science Studies

Automatic Writing in France 1857-1930

A review of Scripting the Mind: Automatic Writing in France, 1857-1930, by Alexandra Katerina Bacopoulos-Viau. This excellent dissertation by Alexandr...
Med Anthro

Canada’s Mandatory Immigration HIV Screening

A review of Cordon Sanitaire or Healthy Policy? How Prospective Immigrants with HIV are Organized by Canada’s Mandatory HIV Screening Policy, by Laura...
Economic History

History of Advertising Trust Archives UK

A review of the History of Advertising Trust Archives, Raveningham, Norfolk, United Kingdom. In March 2013, I spent a couple of days looking at books....
Science Studies

Governing Polio in Cold War Hungary

A review of Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: Governing Polio in Cold War Hungary, 1952-1963, by Dora Vargha. In Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs, Dora Vargha investi...
China

Daoism & Medicine in Early Medieval China

A review of Daoists and Doctors: The Role of Medicine in Six Dynasties Shangqing Daoism, by Michael Stanley-Baker. Michael Stanley-Baker’s dissertatio...
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