BOOKS IN
HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, and MEDICINE 2016 – 2017
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SCIENCE Natures in Translation Romanticism and Colonial Natural History Alan Bewell
Righting America at the Creation Museum Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. “This engagingly written book takes readers on a virtual tour of the Creation Museum.” —Ronald L. Numbers, author of The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design
2016 344 pp. 11 halftones, 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-1951-0 $26.95 hc Also available as an e-book
The Intentional Brain
Miseducation
The Age of Analogy
Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry
A History of Ignorance-Making in America and Abroad
Science and Literature between the Darwins
Michael R. Trimble, MD “Dr. Trimble has made a tremendous contribution to the history of neuropsychiatry from the ancient Greeks to the present day.”—Derick E. Vergne, MD, Tufts School of Medicine
2016 328 pp. 12 halftones, 4 line drawings 978-1-4214-1949-7 $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book
edited by A. J. Angulo A provocative collection that explores how intentional ignorance seeps into formal education.
2016 384 pp. 3 halftones, 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-1932-9 $32.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Devin Griffiths “Does nothing less than create a new way of thinking about the construction of historical and scientific narrative in the long nineteenth century. A remarkable book.”—Tim Fulford, De Montfort University
2016 344 pp. 7 halftones, 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-2076-9 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book
“This fascinating and ambitious book takes on the concept of nature, bringing together its literary and scientific senses with chapters on poetry, travel, and natural history writing.” —Elizabeth A. Bohls, author of Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770 –1833
2016 416 pp., 12 halftones 978-1-4214-2096-7 $60.00 hc Also available as an e-book
New In Paperback Exploration and Engineering The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars Erik M. Conway “A great book for everyone seriously interested in the struggles and achievements of JPL as NASA’s centre for Mars exploration.”—Sky at Night
2015 416 pp. 11 halftones, 10 line drawings 978-1-4214-2122-3 $32.95 pb Also available as an e-book
TECHNOLOGY
Knowledge Games How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change Karen Schrier “By examining the intersection of crowdsourcing and games, Schrier provides a novel perspective on the role of games in society.”—Zoë B. Corwin, coeditor of Postsecondary Play: The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education
2016 280 pp., 18 halftones 978-1-4214-1920-6 $34.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust
Engineering Victory
FastLane
Sage on the Screen
How Technology Won the Civil War
Salvaging the Automotive Past
Thomas F. Army, Jr.
Managing Science in the Internet World
Education, Media, and How We Learn
David N. Lucsko “Addresses a topic that is utterly fresh and does so with insight, grace, and authority.’” —Robert C. Post, author of High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950 –2000
2016 280 pp., 10 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1942-8 $44.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Thomas J. Misa “A comprehensive, highly erudite and Jeffrey R. Yost history of military engineering in the Civil War. The standard work “This fundamentally important against which all others are mea- book demystifies the workings and construction of NSF’s sured.”—Michael C. C. Adams, FastLane grant application author of Living Hell: The Dark system.”—Joseph A. November, Side of the Civil War author of Biomedical Comput2016 392 pp., 18 halftones, 10 maps ing: Digitizing Life in the United 978-1-4214-1937-4 $49.95 hc States Also available as an e-book
2015 224 pp., 2 b&w photos, 2 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 charts 978-1-4214-1868-1 $34.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Bill Ferster “A carefully researched, complex, and insightful take on both the past and future of digital technology in higher education.” —T. Mills Kelly, author of Teaching History in the Digital Age
2016 240 pp. 72 halftones, 6 line drawings 978-1-4214-2126-1 $35.00 hc Also available as an e-book
TECHNOLOGY New In Paperback
The Model T
Hotel Dreams
Refrigeration Nation
Faxed
A Centennial History
Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929
A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America
The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
Molly W. Berger
Jonathan Rees
Jonathan Coopersmith
Robert Casey Michigan Notable Book, Library of Michigan
Winner, Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology
“If there is room on any bookshelf for just one work about Henry “A rigorously researched and Ford’s Model T, this is the book elegantly written study of the that belongs in that space.” role of the hotel in shaping and —Technology and Culture embodying ideals of progress, 2008 168 pp. luxury, and technology in a 102 halftones, 8 line drawings consumer capitalist society.” 978-1-4214-2117-9 $26.95 pb —American Historical Review
2011 328 pp., 47 halftones 978-1-4214-1992-3 $34.95 pb Also available as an e-book
“A smart and illuminating book that will be of great interest to anyone engaged with either the history of technology or the history of food.”—American Historical Review Published with the assistance of the Hagley Museum and Library
2013 248 pp., 12 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1986-2 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
“An illuminating, meticulously researched and often fascinating account.”—Times Literary Supplement
2015 320 pp. 16 halftones, 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-2123-0 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
The Telegraph in America, 1832 –1920 David Hochfelder “For a quick assessment of telegraphy’s development and impact, this insightful book is hard to beat.”—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2012 264 pp., 9 b&w photos 978-1-4214-2124-7 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
MEDICINE
A Time of Scandal Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau Rosemary Stevens “A splendid (and highly revisionist) book. A fresh, convincing look at Warren Harding’s presidency and Charles Forbes’s tenure at the Veterans Bureau.” —Ronald L. Numbers, coeditor of Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science
2016 400 pp., 18 halftones 978-1-4214-2130-8 $34.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Murder and the Making of English CSI
A History of Global Health
Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton
Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
The engrossing account of how science-based forensics transformed the investigation of twentieth-century murders and in the process invented CSI.
Randall M. Packard
2016 248 pp., 37 halftones 978-1-4214-2040-0 $24.95 hc Also available as an e-book
“For a long time now, historians have been looking for a book that takes a big picture view of the emergence of global health. This is that book, and Packard is the ideal person to have written it.”—Joanna Radin, Yale School of Medicine
2016 424 pp., 15 halftones 978-1-4214-2033-2 $35.00 pb Also available as an e-book
Nature’s Path A History of Naturopathic Healing in America Susan E. Cayleff “An engaging history of naturopathy, exhaustively researched and meticulously documented.”—Barbara Melosh, author of The Physician’s Hand: Nurses and Nursing in the Twentieth Century
2016 408 pp. 4 halftones, 7 line drawings 978-1-4214-1903-9 $39.95 hc Also available as an e-book
A Short History of Medicine revised and expanded edition Erwin H. Ackerknecht foreword and concluding essay by Charles E. Rosenberg bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer “The author has succeeded in presenting the history of medicine in a well-balanced way that makes fascinating reading.”—Bulletin of the History of Medicine
2016 272 pp., 22 halftones, 1 line drawing 978-1-4214-1954-1 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
MEDICINE New In Paperback Generic The Unbranding of Modern Medicine Jeremy A. Greene “Greene turns the concept of generic as “ho-hum” on its head with this jam-packed survey.” —Publishers Weekly
Life Histories of Genetic Disease Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics Andrew J. Hogan A history of genetic testing warns that such tests may tell us more than we want to know.
2016 276 pp., 24 halftones 978-1-4214-2074-5 $40.00 hc Also available as an e-book
Disease and Discovery
Health and Humanity
A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939
A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935 –1985
Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913
Karen Kruse Thomas
Joel Peter Eigen
Elizabeth Fee The story of the founding and early years of the nation’s first dedicated school of public health has been reissued to coincide with the school’s centennial celebration.
2016 304 pp., 30 b&w photos 978-1-4214-2110-0 $35.00 hc Also available as an e-book
Mad-Doctors in the Dock
The mid-twentieth-century evolution of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
A captivating history of the defense of the insanity plea in England.
2016 544 pp., 25 b&w photos 978-1-4214-2108-7 $45.00 hc Also available as an e-book
2016 232 pp., 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-2048-6 $40.00 hc Also available as an e-book
2014 368 pp. 8 halftones, 9 line drawings 978-1-4214-2164-3 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity Gary B. Ferngren “A succinct, thoughtful, wellwritten, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era.”—JAMA
2009 264 pp. 978-1-4214-2006-6 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED Medicine
Science & Technology
Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People The Misuse and Abuse of Science in Political Discourse Richard J. Perry 2015 232 pp. 978-1-4214-1751-6 $24.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Alfred Wegener
Light It Up
Ending Medical Reversal
The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq
Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives
John Pettegrew
Vinayak K. Prasad, MD, MPH, and Adam S. Cifu, MD
2015 240 pp., 7 b&w photos, 3 b&w illus., 1 line drawing 978-1-4214-1785-1 $34.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Science and Technology in World History
Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift
An Introduction
Mott T. Greene
James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn
2015 696 pp. 28 b&w photos, 42 line drawings 978-1-4214-1712-7 $44.95 hc Also available as an e-book
The Cybernetics Moment Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age Ronald R. Kline 2015 352 pp. 6 halftones, 4 line drawings 978-1-4214-1671-7 $54.95 hc Also available as an e-book
third edition
2015 552 pp. 36 b&w illus., 83 line drawings 978-1-4214-1775-2 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
From Playgrounds to PlayStation The Interaction of Technology and Play Carroll Pursell 2015 216 pp., 15 halftones 978-1-4214-1650-2 $28.95 pb Also available as an e-book
2015 280 pp., 9 line drawings 978-1-4214-1772-1 $24.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Immunity William E. Paul, MD 2015 280 pp. 14 halftones, 10 line drawings 978-1-4214-1801-8 $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book
A History of Public Health
Health Care in America
revised expanded edition
John C. Burnham
George Rosen foreword by Pascal James Imperato, MD, MPH&TM introduction by Elizabeth Fee biographical essay and new bibliography by Edward T. Morman 2015 440 pp. 978-1-4214-1601-4 $35.00 pb Also available as an e-book
A History 2015 616 pp. 99 halftones, 43 line drawings 978-1-4214-1608-3 $34.95 pb Also available as an e-book
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