Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution

From Copernicus to Newton

Edited by Wilbur Applebaum

With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses...

Published March 14th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Kenneth Borris, George S. Rousseau

The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It...

Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

Edited by James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in...

Published October 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Changing Relationships in Britain and France, 1935–1965

By Viviane Quirke

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...

Published October 8th 2007 by Routledge.

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Islam and Science

The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi

By Robert Morrison

In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of...

Published September 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Women in Science

A Social and Cultural History

By Ruth Watts

The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science.

Women in...

Published June 6th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Social Construction of Disease

From Scrapie to Prion

By Kiheung Kim

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...

Published October 26th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine

Writing Recent Science

By Ronald E. Doel, Thomas Söderqvist

As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with the history of contemporary science...

Published September 28th 2006 by Routledge.

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Public Understanding of Science

A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas

By David Knight

Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge.

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Interferon

The Science and Selling of a Miracle Drug

By Toine Pieters

This innovative study charts the beginnings, history and fate of Interferon - one of modern medicine's most famous and infamous drugs. Interferon is part of...

Published March 4th 2005 by Routledge.

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