JHUP History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 2016 2017

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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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