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Books in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine


Science Science Unshackled How Obscure, Abstract, Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to Be the Basis for Modern Life C. Renée James “Renée James’s book walks you through the amazing relationship between scientific research and producing a better world around us—it’s an inspiring, eye-opening journey.”—Astronomy 2014 216 pp. 978-1-4214-1500-0 $24.95 hc

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Creationism in Europe edited by Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, and Peter C. Kjærgaard foreword by Ronald L. Numbers “A valuable overview of creationist efforts and activities in Europe through historical or journalistic narratives. Each chapter tells us more than we knew before.”—Edward J. Larson, Pepperdine University 2014 296 pp., 7 halftones, 4 line drawings 978-1-4214-1562-8 $39.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Losing Touch with Nature Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England Mary Thomas Crane “A lucid, well-argued account of the prehistory of the scientific revolution in England.”—Shankar Raman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2014 248 pp. 978-1-4214-1531-4 $49.95 hc

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The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja An English Translation with Commentary Toke Lindegaard Knudsen “Translation and commentary projects like this one are the indispensable contributions that most influence and enable future progress in better understanding this ancient history and culture.”—Dennis W. Duke, Florida State University 2014 376 pp., 31 line drawings 978-1-4214-1442-3 $89.95 hc Also available as an e-book

A Chosen Calling Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century Noah J. Efron “A fresh and ambitious exploration of the enthusiasm with which Jews have celebrated science.”—David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley 2014 168 pp. 978-1-4214-1381-5 $26.95 hc

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Why Mars

DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton

NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration

Geology and Power in Early New York

W. Henry Lambright

David I. Spanagel

“No one before Lambright has come close to ex-

“An exemplary study of the interconnections

plaining the development of NASA’s successful

between the making of geological knowledge

two-decade strategy to garner public and political

and the creation of a prosperous community of

support for Mars exploration.”—Roger D.

politicians, painters, writers, and men of science

Launius, National Air and Space Museum,

in New York State during the early national

Smithsonian Institution

period.”—Paul Lucier, author of Scientists and

2014 336 pp. 978-1-4214-1279-5 $49.95 hc

Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America,

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Dealing with Darwin Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution David N. Livingstone “How was Darwin’s On the Origin of Species received by his contemporary scholars, particularly by theologians and religious authors? That is the subject of the thoroughly researched and elegantly written book by David N. Livingstone.” —Science, Religion and Culture 2014 280 pp. 978-1-4214-1326-6 $39.95 hc

2014 288 pp., 7 halftones, 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-1104-0 $54.95 hc Also available as an e-book

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The Nature of Cities Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920–1960 Jennifer S. Light

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Subverting Aristotle Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science Craig Martin “Martin has written what will become the standard account of pre-modern Aristotelianism for a very long time to come.”—John Monfasani, University at Albany, The State University of New York 2014 272 pp. 978-1-4214-1316-7 $54.95 hc

1820–1890

Honorable Mention, Lewis Mumford Prize, Society for City and Regional Planning History “A fascinating and suggestive account of the influence of ecology and natural-resource management on academic urbanists, city planners, and real-estate professionals.”—Technology and Culture 2014 328 pp., 9 halftones, 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-1384-6 $34.95 pb

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Technology Stealing Cars Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino John A. Heitmann and Rebecca H. Morales Stealing cars has become as technologically advanced as the cars themselves. This study of automobile theft and culture examines motives and methods, technological deterrents, institutional responses, international borders, and cultural reflections. 2014 232 pp., 8 halftones, 5 line drawings 978-1-4214-1297-9 $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Home Fires How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century Sean Patrick Adams “Adams’s slim study touches lightly on this hot topic . . . The stove does not just heat; it allows us to see the ‘connections we all have to wider networks of production, distribution, and consumption.”—Times Literary Supplement 2014 200 pp., 10 halftones, 2 maps 978-1-4214-1357-0 $22.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Wikipedia U Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age Thomas Leitch “Wikipedia U is unlike any other book on the topic. It will be of great use to those interested in the intersections between today’s Wikipedia and the venerable project of a liberal education.”—Joseph Michael Reagle Jr., author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia 2014 176 pp. 978-1-4214-1535-2 $29.95 hc

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Teaching Machines Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology Bill Ferster “This sweeping overview of teaching tools from the hornbooks of the seventeenth century to the cloud-based apps of the twenty-first provides rare and necessary perspective on a topic of perpetual debate.”—Ed Ayers, President, University of Richmond 2014 216 pp., 12 b&w illus., 31 halftones 978-1-4214-1540-6 $34.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964 Takashi Nishiyama “Legend has it that wartime aeronautical engineering converted to the success of a bullet train in postwar Japan. Nishiyama’s approach includes those who contributed at all levels of technology, from engineers on down.”—Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University 2014 280 pp., 9 halftones 978-1-4214-1266-5 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book

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Medicine

Generic

Pathologist of the Mind

The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry

Jeremy A. Greene “An enlightening and passionately written work, Generic opens the ‘black box’ of the pharma-

S. D. Lamb “Many, perhaps most, psychiatrists know that

ceutical world. This book will deeply impact the

Meyer is an important figure in American

way we imagine and practice medicine in the

psychiatry, but usually don’t quite know why.

future.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The

Dr. Lamb’s superb book makes the reasons pel-

Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 2014 368 pp., 8 halftones, 9 line drawings 978-1-4214-1493-5 $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Intolerant Bodies A Short History of Autoimmunity

lucidly clear.”—Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2014 336 pp., 16 halftones, 6 line drawings 978-1-4214-1484-3 $44.95 hc Also available as an e-book

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Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay

Broken Hearts

“Anderson and Mackay’s engaging survey is a

The Tangled History of Cardiac Care

studious examination of autoimmune diseases, and a humble admission that their cures remain stubbornly elusive.”—Publishers Weekly 2014 264 pp. 978-1-4214-1533-8 $25.95 pb

David S. Jones “Wide-ranging, full of interesting and telling

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historical details, steadi-

More Than Hot

ly paced yet thorough in its making sense

A Short History of Fever

of complex medicine,

Christopher Hamlin “In Christopher Hamlin, the subject has an author . . . who brings to his topic a breadth of specialist and general knowledge, which makes this text a formidable contribution to various fields. More Than Hot is a dazzling, bravura book.”

Broken Hearts exposes cardiac care as neither mundane nor settled.” —Sociology of Health and Illness 2014 336 pp., 25 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1575-8 $29.95 pb

—Christopher Lawrence, University College London 2014 400 pp., 11 halftones, 9 line drawings 978-1-4214-1502-4 $25.95 pb Also available as an e-book

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Medicine Pain A Political History Keith Wailoo “This book should be read by patients, clinicians and policy makers who wish to understand the recent past to guide future advocacy, public engagement and policy as we seek . . . to change the way chronic pain is perceived, managed and judged­—for the betterment of all.” —Pains Project 2014 296 pp., 11 halftones, 4 line drawings 978-1-4214-1365-5 $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Gene Jockeys Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise Nicolas Rasmussen “Delicately unravels the tangled fibres of discovery, entrepreneurship and lab life in the first decades of genetic engineering.”—Nature 2014 264 pp., 12 line drawings 978-1-4214-1340-2 $35.00 hc Also available as an e-book

Aging Bones A Short History of Osteoporosis Gerald N. Grob “Elegantly written and deeply researched, Aging Bones shows how osteoporosis went from being treated as an inevitable part of getting older to a pathological disease state.”—Beth Linker, University of Pennsylvania 2014 304 pp. 978-1-4214-1318-1 $24.95 pb

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Medicine and Religion A Historical Introduction Gary B. Ferngren “Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in the intersection of religion and medicine. . . I expect this book to become required reading for many clinical health care and bioethics classes (as well as history classes).”—Metapsychology 2014 256 pp. 978-1-4214-1216-0 $24.95 pb

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Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century A History George Weisz “Weisz presents a highly original argument that will greatly enrich our historical understanding of chronic disease and the medical, public health, and policy response to it.”—Jesse F. Ballenger, Pennsylvania State University 2014 328 pp. 978-1-4214-1303-7 $29.95 pb

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Coming in 2015 Exploration and Engineering

Making Computers Accessible

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars

Disability Rights and Digital Technology

Erik M. Conway

Age of System Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science Hunter Heyck

The Cybernetics Moment

Elizabeth R. Petrick

Coal and Empire The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America Peter A. Shulman

The Antibiotic Era

Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age

Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics

Ronald R. Kline

Scott H. Podolsky

From Playgrounds to PlayStation The Interaction of Technology and Play Carroll Pursell

Faxed The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine Jonathan Coopersmith

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Coming in 2015 Health Care in America A History

Coming in Paperback

John C. Burnham

Doctors Without Borders

A History of Public Health revised expanded edition

Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières

George Rosen

Healing Gotham New York City’s Public Health Policies for the Twenty-First Century Bruce F. Berg

Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire Ido Israelowich

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Renée C. Fox


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