Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

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• The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he w... Lees meer

Evidence in Action between Science and Society

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• This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the ... Lees meer

Interferon

Toine Pieters

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• This innovative study charts the beginnings, history and fate of Interferon - one of modern medicine's most famous and infamous drugs. Interferon is p... Lees meer

Pioneering Health in London, 1935-2000

David Kuchenbuch

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• The Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre, was one of the most talked-about social experiments of th... Lees meer

Heredity and Infection

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• Ideas about the transmission of disease have long formed the core of modern biology and medicine. Heredity and Infection examines their development ov... Lees meer

Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology

Benoît Godin

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• How do we objectively measure scientific activities? What proportion of economic activities should a society devote to research and development? How c... Lees meer

Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology

Benoît Godin

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• How do we objectively measure scientific activities? What proportion of economic activities should a society devote to research and development? How c... Lees meer

Science and Ideology

Mark Walker

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• Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been pass... Lees meer

Instruments, Travel and Science

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• We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices... Lees meer

Science and Ideology

Mark Walker

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• Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been pass... Lees meer

Public Understanding of Science

David Knight

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• Answering questions such as whether the interesting parts of science be conveyed in sermons, poems, pictures and journalism, Knight explores the histo... Lees meer

Germs in the English Workplace, c.1880-1945

Laura Newman

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• This book looks at how the workplace was transformed through a greater awareness of the roles that germs played in English working lives from c.1880 t... Lees meer

The Social Construction of Disease

Kiheung Kim

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• A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called 'prion diseases', this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapi... Lees meer

Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910

Aitor Anduaga

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• Weather forecasting is the most visible branch of meteorology and has its modern roots in the nineteenth century when scientists redefined meteorology... Lees meer

Transforming American Science

Jonathan Engel

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• Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and the broader sy... Lees meer

Interferon

Toine Pieters

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and
• This innovative study charts the beginnings, history and fate of Interferon - one of modern medicine's most famous and infamous drugs. Interferon is p... Lees meer

Global Science and National Sovereignty

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• Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science provides detailed case studies on how sovereignty has been constru... Lees meer

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and
• The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he w... Lees meer

From Molecular Genetics to Genomics

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• With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. Maps of genomes have become the icons for a comprehensive knowledge of the organi... Lees meer

The Fight Against Cancer

Patrice Pinell

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• Between the two World Wars an illness that mainly affects adults over fifty years old became so prominent that it superseded both tuberculosis and syp... Lees meer

Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Viviane Quirke

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• Examining the issue of 'British decline' after the war, this fascinating text describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues... Lees meer

Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe

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• This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century. Contributors explore the socio... Lees meer

Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees

John M Harris Jr

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• This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823-1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public ... Lees meer

The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine

Ronald E Doel, Thomas Söderqvist

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• As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with th... Lees meer