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.
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Race and Natural History, 1750–1850
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolaas Rupke, Gerhard Lauer
June 30, 2020
The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he was one of the first anthropologists to investigate humankind as part of natural history. Moreover, Blumenbach was, and continues to be, a central ...
Pioneering Health in London, 1935-2000: The Peckham Experiment
1st Edition
By David Kuchenbuch
June 30, 2020
The Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre, was one of the most talked-about social experiments of the 20th century. Families from the South London neighbourhood of Peckham were invited to use the facilities of a radiantly modern building. They were ...
Soviet Science and Engineering in the Shadow of the Cold War
1st Edition
By Hiroshi Ichikawa
June 30, 2020
The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobilized to several military-related research and development projects not only in the United States, but also in the Soviet Union. Contrary to the ...
Urban Histories of Science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940
1st Edition
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By Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan
June 30, 2020
This book tells ten urban histories of science from nine cities—Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dublin (2 articles), Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Naples—situated on the geographical margins of Europe and beyond. Ranging from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, the ...
Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market
1st Edition
By Barbara Bridgman Perkins
May 07, 2019
Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom "crazy medicine and unsustainable public policy." There...
Spatializing the History of Ecology: Sites, Journeys, Mappings
1st Edition
Edited
By Raf de Bont, Jens Lachmund
May 07, 2019
Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecology is a field science that has thrived on the study of concrete spatial entities, such as islands, forests or rivers. These spaces are the workplaces in ...
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 ...