Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
About the Book Series
Studies in the History of Science Technology and Medicine aims to stimulate research in the field, concentrating on the twentieth century. It seeks to contribute to our understanding of science, technology and medicine as they are embedded in society, exploring the links between the subjects on the one hand, and the cultural, economic, political and institutional contexts of their genesis and development on the other. Within this framework, and while not favouring any particular methodological approach, the series welcomes studies which examine relations between science, technology, medicine and society in new ways, e.g. the social construction of technologies, large technical systems.
On the Path to the Fifth Industrial Revolution
1st Edition
By Rolando Herrero
June 05, 2026
presents the evolution of industrial revolutions by combining relevant technological and scientific concepts with historical context, examining the transition from the current fourth and future fifth industrial revolutions, both reliant on cyber-physical systems but differing mainly in the nature ...
Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriele Balbi, Roberto Leggero
December 26, 2025
This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée. Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields explore transversal and trans-temporal issues of...
Earth-Knowledge: History of Earth Sciences as Histories of Knowledge?
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman Henniges, Johannes Mattes, Marianne Klemun
December 03, 2025
Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences. ...
Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group: What was the Anthropocene?
1st Edition
By Alexander Damianos
November 03, 2025
Between 2009 and 2024, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), an interdisciplinary team of geologists, archaeologists, Earth systems scientists, historians of science, and one lawyer, sought to formalise the Anthropocene as a formal unit of the Geologic Time Scale. Science, Politics, and the ...
The Lost Origins of Osteopathy and Chiropractic in European Mechanical Medicine
1st Edition
By Anders Ottosson
July 31, 2025
This book examines the global history of allegedly scientific “mechanical” cures commonly used to combat internal and chronic diseases and explores how and why the professional demarcation between orthodox and irregular medicine evolved. Now globally dispersed, the systems of osteopathy and ...
Nuclear Power in Britain and Germany: Culture, Emotions, and Rationality: Splitting Societies 1956—1989. Volume One
1st Edition
By Christian Götter
July 28, 2025
Split into two volumes, volume 1 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants’ host communities in Britain and Germany from the 1950s to the late 1980s. Based upon a ...
Nuclear Power in Britain and Germany: Trust, Democracy, and Futures: Splitting Societies 1956—1989. Volume Two
1st Edition
By Christian Götter
July 28, 2025
Split into two volumes, volume 2 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants’ host communities in Britain and Germany from the 1950s to the late 1980s. Based upon a ...
Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires: On the Quest of Learning Places
1st Edition
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By Alice Santiago Faria, Renata Malcher de Araujo, Margarida Tavares da Conceição
July 24, 2025
This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices. “Learning Places” is an expression that intends to ...
Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation
1st Edition
By Émile P. Torres
June 27, 2025
This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history ...
Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees: How Stephen Smith Changed New York
1st Edition
By John M. Harris Jr.
May 06, 2025
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 service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith, a consistent figure in the ...
Tore Godal and the Evolution of Global Health
1st Edition
By Conrad Keating
April 14, 2025
This book is an interconnected history of the evolution of global health in the decades before 2019, told through the prism of six decisive moments in which individuals from the World Health Organization (WHO), philanthropic foundations, academia and bilateral agencies came together to shape the ...
Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020: A Beard to Govern
1st Edition
Edited
By Grégory Dufaud, Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin
April 03, 2025
This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences, and government/governance. Situated at the crossroad of women and gender studies, science and technology studies, and political sociology, this volume shows the ever‑accumulating gendered mechanisms that have ...