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.
Cultures of Control
1st Edition
Edited
By Miriam R. Levin
May 01, 2000
This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices, and beliefs. These ideas are examined critically, not only in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems, but also the ...
Science and Spectacle: The Work of Jodrell Bank in Postwar British Culture
1st Edition
By John Agar
August 01, 1998
Science and Spectacle relates the construction of the telescope to the politics and culture of post-war Britain. From radar and atomic weapons, to the Festival of Britain and, later, Harold Wilson's rhetoric of scientific revolution, science formed a cultural resource from which post-war careers ...
Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances, 1920s to 1970s
1st Edition
By Soraya de Chadarevian, Harmke Kamminga
March 01, 1998
The contributors present a coherent set of case studies of practices, technologies and strategies aimed at the isolation, investigation, manipulation, production, and uses of molecules including vitamins, hormones, blood products, antibiotics, and vaccines. These case studies examine how processes ...
Technological Change: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology
1st Edition
By Robert Fox
January 01, 1998
In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology....
The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Söderquist
July 01, 1997
More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and...
Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture: The Making of Science Careers in North America, 1885-1985
1st Edition
By Paolo Palladino
September 01, 1996
This study is facilitated by following economic entomologists' and ecologists' changing ideas about different pest control strategies, chiefly 'chemical', 'biological', and 'integrated' control. The author then follows the efforts of one specific group of entomologists, at the University of ...