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Osiris, Volume 23
Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960
Av Michael D. Gordin, Karl Hall m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
561 kr
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The newest annual volume of "Osiris, Intelligentsia Science" explores the transformations in science in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, from serfdom to Sputnik, as a series of developments in Russian culture.The contributors argue that it was the generation of the 1860s that transformed …
Osiris, Volume 19
Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments
Av Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
289 kr
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Bringing together historians of science and medicine with environmental historians, and adding more contemporary vantage points from geography, anthropology, and sociology, Osiris Volume 19: Landscapes of Exposure offers an unprecedented interdisciplinary depiction of how, over the nineteenth and …
Osiris, Volume 33
Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories
Av Lukas Rieppel, William Deringer m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
321 kr
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The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the “history of capitalism,” as well as from renewed attention to …
Osiris, Volume 34
Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science
Av Amanda Rees, Iwan Rhys Morus
Häftad, 2019
314 kr
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The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences. This volume of Osiris focuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytelling—science fiction (SF), told through a variety of …
Osiris, Volume 36
Therapeutic Properties: Global Medical Cultures, Knowledge, and Law
Av Helen Tilley
Häftad, 2021
314 kr
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This volume of Osiris takes as its point of departure a simple premise: we have yet to fully flesh out the complex historical interplay between medicine and law across the globe. Therapeutic Properties takes an inventive look at the issue, presenting welcome insights on the worldwide ascendancy of …
Osiris, Volume 41
Histories of Science and Childhoods
Av Andrea Graus, Violeta Ruiz m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
314 kr
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Converges the fields of childhood studies and the histories of science, medicine, and technology, foregrounding and investigating the entangled histories of the "child" and childhood and science.Building on the premise that neither childhood nor science are natural, essential, or universalizable …
Commemorations of Scientific Grandeur
The Politics of Collective Memory
Av Pnina G. Abir-Am, Clark A. Elliot
Häftad, 1999
296 kr
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Devoted to the history of non-Western science, technology and medicine, this volume goes beyond the legacy of the late historian, Joseph Needham, by covering a range of countries and by adopting new approaches. The chapters address topics in China, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, …
Commemorations of Scientific Grandeur
The Politics of Collective Memory
Av Pnina G. Abir-Am, Clark A. Elliot
Inbunden, 2000
436 kr
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The study of how national culture, disciplinary tradition, epistemological choice and political expediency affect the construction of collective memory is addressed in this text. It also looks at how historians work with or against those constructions. The text includes essays that focus on a …
Commemorations of Scientific Grandeur
The Politics of Collective Memory
Av Pnina G. Abir-Am, Clark A. Elliot
Häftad, 2000
296 kr
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The study of how national culture, disciplinary tradition, epistemological choice and political expediency affect the construction of collective memory is addressed in this text. It also looks at how historians work with or against those constructions. The text includes essays that focus on a …
Osiris, Volume 29
Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Av Matthew D. Eddy, Seymour H. Mauskopf m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
289 kr
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The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner of "chymistry." In a similar vein, the chemical …
Osiris, Volume 30
Scientific Masculinities
Av Erika Lorraine Milam, Robert A. Nye
Häftad, 2016
304 kr
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This volume of Osiris integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as foils for femininity and as methods of …
Research Schools
Historical Reappraisals
Av Gerald L. Geison, Frederic L. Holmes
Inbunden, 1993
436 kr
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Whether conceived of as "research groups", "knowledge factories" or "invisible colleges", the research schools examined in this volume are observed in the historical and cultural contexts of their disciplines, their institutional settings, their national traditions and scientific styles. Given its …
Research Schools
Historical Perspectives
Av Gerald L. Geison, Frederic L. Holmes
Häftad, 1993
287 kr
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Whether conceived of as "research groups", "knowledge factories" or "invisible colleges", the research schools examined in this volume are observed in the historical and cultural contexts of their disciplines, their institutional settings, their national traditions and scientific styles. Given its …
Osiris, Volume 31
History of Science and the Emotions
Av Otniel E. Dror, Bettina Hitzer m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
304 kr
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What new insights become available for historians when emotions are included as an analytical category? This volume of Osiris explores the historical interrelationships between science and its cultures and cultures of emotions. It argues that a dialogue between the history of emotions and the …
Science in the Field
Av Henrika Kuklick, Robert E. Kohler
Häftad, 1996
287 kr
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Unlike many histories of scientific practices, which deal with laboratory experiments, this collection of essays focuses on scientific investigations conducted out of doors: biological, physical, and social. Case studies from varied disciplines explore the material, human, and cultural aspects of …
Osiris, Volume 32
Data Histories
Av Aronova Elena, von Oertzen Christine m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
306 kr
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The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women's history, as well as the histories of many …
Osiris, Volume 35
Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences
Av E. C. Spary, Anya Zilberstein
Häftad, 2020
304 kr
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Constructing Knowledge in the History of Science
Inbunden, 1995
436 kr
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Providing a review of current controversies, emerging agendas and recent research in the history of science, these essays are organized to consider such themes as knowledge and values, gender or authorship; knowledge constructed by discipline, chronology or geography; and knowledge in related …
Constructing Knowledge in the History of Science
Häftad, 1995
287 kr
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Providing a review of current controversies, emerging agendas and recent research in the history of science, these essays are organized to consider such themes as knowledge and values, gender or authorship; knowledge constructed by discipline, chronology or geography; and knowledge in related …
Osiris, Volume 37
Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds
Av Tara Alberts, Sietske Fransen m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
314 kr
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Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period.This volume of Osiris turns the analytical lens of translation onto medical knowledge and practices across the premodern world. Understandings of the human body, …
Osiris, Volume 38
Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures, Past and Present
Häftad, 2023
304 kr
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Perceptively explores the shifting intersections between algorithmic systems and human practices in the modern era.How have algorithmic systems and human practices developed in tandem since 1800? This volume of Osiris deftly addresses the question, dispelling along the way the traditional notion of …
Osiris, Volume 40
Animal Mobilities
Av Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
314 kr
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Situates "animal mobility" within the politics of movement, opening new perspectives in the history of science.Human societies often come to know the natural world by examining animals, even as animals, frequently both willful and animate, can elude human grasp and challenge human aims. Animals and …
Instruments
Av Albert Van Helden, Thomas L. Hankins
Häftad, 1994
287 kr
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Through the ages, scientific instruments have been used not only to advance understanding, but also to advance careers, dazzle audiences and impose standards. These 11 essays take stock of the philosophy of instrumentation and the impact of new instruments in both the physical and life sciences, …
