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.
Evidence in Action between Science and Society: Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge
1st Edition
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By Sarah Ehlers, Stefan Esselborn
May 27, 2024
This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge. The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the ...
Pathogens Crossing Borders: Global Animal Diseases and International Responses, 1860–1947
1st Edition
By Cornelia Knab
May 27, 2024
The increasing globalization of trade, travel and transport since the mid-19th century had unwelcome consequences – one of them was the spread of contagious animal diseases over greater distances in a shorter time than ever before. Borders and national control strategies proved to be insufficient ...
Germs in the English Workplace, c.1880–1945
1st Edition
By Laura Newman
August 29, 2022
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 to 1945. Cutting across a diverse array of occupational settings – such as the domestic kitchen, the milking shed, the factory, and the Post Office – ...
Closing the Door on Globalization: Internationalism, Nationalism, Culture and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1st Edition
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By Cláudia Ninhos, Fernando Clara
October 12, 2017
This is a book about the tensions and entangled interactions between internationalism and nationalism, and about the effects both had on European scientific and cultural settings from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From chemistry to philology the essays tackle different historical...
Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Changing Relationships in Britain and France, 1935–1965
1st Edition
By Viviane Quirke
May 13, 2016
Examining the issue of 'British decline' after the war, this fascinating text describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues that the relationship between these two countries helped to disseminate a culture of research, resulting in the transformation of the medical ...
The Social Construction of Disease: From Scrapie to Prion
1st Edition
By Kiheung Kim
May 13, 2016
A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research and ...
The Fight Against Cancer: France 1890-1940
1st Edition
By Patrice Pinell
March 03, 2016
Between the two World Wars an illness that mainly affects adults over fifty years old became so prominent that it superseded both tuberculosis and syphilis in importance.As Patrice Pinell shows, the effect of cancer in France before World War Two reached far beyond the question of its mortality ...
Classical Genetic Research and its Legacy: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics
1st Edition
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By Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
July 16, 2015
With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of mapping procedures as they were developed in classical genetics. An accompanying volume - From Molecular Genetics to Genomics - covers the history of molecular genetics and ...
Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite
1st Edition
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By Roger D. Lanius, John M. Logsdon, Robert W. Smith
December 22, 2014
This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the formation of NASA, the race for human exploration of the moon, the reality of global satellite communications, and a new generation of ...
Planning Armageddon: Britain, the United States and the Command of Western Nuclear Forces, 1945-1964
1st Edition
By Len Scott, Dr Stephen Robert Twigge, Stephen Twigge
November 10, 2014
Planning Armageddon provides the first detailed account of Britain's Command, Control, Intelligence and Communications infrastructure. A central theme of the book is the British-American atomic relationship and its implications for NATO strategy. Based on the recollections of officials and military...
Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
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By Marie Noëlle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, H. Otto Sibum
August 12, 2014
We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture. The contributors trace the displacement of instruments ...
Changing Images in Mathematics: From the French Revolution to the New Millennium
1st Edition
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By Umberto Bottazini, Amy Dahan Dalmedico
October 23, 2013
This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture. Avoiding technicalities, it displays the breadth of contrasting images of mathematics favoured by ...