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.
William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep: A History of Science, Poetry, and Progress
1st Edition
By Keith Davies
November 29, 2024
The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poiēsis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely explored in this book. By examining the views of William Blake and other poets in the context of twentieth-century philosophers Hannah Arendt, Jacob ...
Transforming American Science: Universities, the Government, and the Cold War
1st Edition
By Jonathan Engel
October 07, 2024
Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and the broader system of American higher education during the post-World War II decades. The events of the book lie within the context of the Cold War, when pressure ...
Evidence in Action between Science and Society: Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
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 – ...
Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
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By James Kennaway, Rina Knoeff
August 29, 2022
The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become ...
Medicine and Justice: Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700–1914
1st Edition
By Katherine Watson
August 02, 2021
This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history. It does this through the lens provided by one group of historical actors, medical professionals who gave...
Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Petteri Pietikäinen, Jesper Kragh
June 30, 2021
This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century. Contributors explore the socioeconomic status of mental patients, the possible influence of social class on the diagnoses and treatment they received in psychiatric institutions, ...
Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany: Treatments of the Past
1st Edition
By Markus Wahl
March 31, 2021
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work, it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order ...
Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910: Taming the Weather
1st Edition
By Aitor Anduaga
March 31, 2021
Weather forecasting is the most visible branch of meteorology and has its modern roots in the nineteenth century when scientists redefined meteorology in the way weather forecasts were made, developing maps of isobars, or lines of equal atmospheric pressure, as the main forecasting tool. This book ...
Cold Science: Environmental Knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Bocking, Daniel Heidt
September 30, 2020
Science during the Cold War has become a matter of lively interest within the historical research community, attracting the attention of scholars concerned with the history of science, the Cold War, and environmental history. The Arctic—recognized as a frontier of confrontation between the ...
Health Policies in Interwar Europe: A Transnational Perspective
1st Edition
By Josep L. Barona
June 30, 2020
Research into public health policies and expert instruction has been oriented traditionally in the national context. There is a rich historiography that analyses the development of health policies and systems in various European and American countries during the first decades of the twentieth ...