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The Nature of Data
Infrastructures, Environments, Politics Edited by Jenny Goldstein & Eric Nost By bringing together scholars from geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and ecology, The Nature of Data explores how the digital realm is a significant site in which environmental politics are waged. This collection as a whole makes the argument that we cannot fully understand the current conjuncture in critical, global environmental politics without understanding the role of data platforms, devices, standards, and institutions. In particular, The Nature of Data addresses the contested practices of making and maintaining data infrastructure, the imaginaries produced by data infrastructures, the relations between state and civil society that data infrastructure reworks, and the conditions under which technology can further socio-ecological justice instead of re-entrenching state and capitalist power. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS October 2022 17 photos, 3 illus, 3 maps, 3 tables, 5 charts, 1 graph, index 344pp 9781496232502 £24.99 PB now £17.49
Charged
A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future James Morton Turner Foreword by Paul S. Sutter In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create—sustainability, resiliency, and climate justice—the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume: lithium, graphite, nickel, and other specialized materials. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the frontlines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books August 2022 12 b&w illus. 256pp 9780295750248 £28.99 HB now £20.29
Science as a Cultural Human Right Helle Porsdam
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone’s right to “share in scientific advancement and its benefits” and to “enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.” The important role played by science and technology and the potential for dual use makes it imperative to evaluate scientific research and its products not only on their scientific but also on their human rights merits. In Science as a Cultural Human Right, Helle Porsdam argues robustly for the role of the right to science now and in the future. The book analyzes the legal stature of this right, the potential consequences of not establishing it as fundamental, and its connection to global cultural rights. It offers the basis for defending the free and responsible practice of science and ensuring that its benefits are spread globally. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights August 2022 208pp 9781512822939 £47.00 HB now £32.90
Architecture of Life
Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. Architecture of Life delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavor, analyzing many facets of their radical approach and situating it within the context of other modernist movements that were developing concurrently across the globe. Examining the theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, as well as those of their lesser-known colleagues, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS August 2022 103 b&w illus, 20 color plates 336pp 9781517912277 £28.99 PB now £20.29
Oceanographers and the Cold War Disciples of Marine Science Jacob Darwin Hamblin
"Oceanographers and the Cold War is of tremendous value, as it challenges readers, and other historians, to take into account not just the national background of various marine scientific enterprises, but international issues and the overarching political themes of an era, which affect how science is done."–History of Philosophical and Life Sciences Oceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and explore the international focus of American oceanographers, taking into account the roles of the US Navy, US foreign policy, and scientists throughout the world. Jacob Darwin Hamblin demonstrates that to understand the history of American oceanography, one must consider its role in both conflict and cooperation with other nations. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS August 2022 10 illus. 368pp 9780295751276 £24.99 PB now £17.49
Skin Theory
Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory Cristina Mejia Visperas In February 1966, a local newspaper described the medical science program at Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia, a “golden opportunity to conduct widespread medical tests under perfect control conditions.” Helmed by Albert M. Kligman, a University of Pennsylvania professor, these tests enrolled hundreds of the prison’s predominantly Black population in studies determining the efficacy and safety of a wide variety of substances, from common household products to chemical warfare agents. These experiments at Holmesburg were hardly unique; in the postwar United States, the use of incarcerated test subjects was standard practice among many research institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Skin Theory examines the prison as this space for scientific knowledge production, showing how the “perfect control conditions” of the prison dovetailed into the visual regimes of laboratory work. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2022 20 b/w illus 240pp 9781479810789 £24.99 PB now £17.49
Wild Experiment
Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin Donovan O. Schaefer In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and contemporary literary criticism, Schaefer reconceptualizes rationality as defined by affective processes at every level. He introduces the model of “cogency theory” to reconsider the relationship between evolutionary biology and secularism, examining mid-nineteenth-century Darwinian controversies, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s. Along the way, Schaefer reappraises a range of related issues, from secular architecture at Oxford to American eugenics to contemporary climate denialism. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2022 7 illus 328pp 9781478018254 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Embodying the Soul
Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe Meg Leja Embodying the Soul explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body's health across the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. Early medieval medicine has long been cast as a superstitious, degraded remnant of a vigorous, rational Greco-Roman tradition. Combating the silence on "dark-age" medicine, Embodying the Soul uncovers new understandings of the physician, the popularity of preventative regimens, and the theological importance attached to dietary regulation and bloodletting. In presenting a cultural history of the body, the book considers a broad range of evidence: theological and pastoral treatises, monastic rules, court poetry, capitularies, hagiographies, biographies, and biblical exegesis. Most important, it offers a dynamic reinterpretation of the large numbers of medical manuscripts that survive from the ninth century but have rarely been the focus of historical study. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: The Middle Ages Series April 2022 16 halftones, 2 maps 392pp 9780812253894 £77.00 HB now £53.90
Blood Inscriptions
Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle Hillel J. Kieval Although the Enlightenment had seemed to bring an end to the widely held belief that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes, charges of the so-called blood libel were surprisingly widespread in central and eastern Europe on either side of the turn to the twentieth century. Well over one hundred accusations were made against Jews in this period, and prosecutors and government officials in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia broke with long established precedent to bring six of these cases forward in sensational public trials. In Blood Inscriptions Hillel J. Kieval examines four cases—the prosecutions that took place at Tiszaeszlár in Hungary (1882-83), Xanten in Germany (1891-92), Polná in Austrian Bohemia (1899-1900), and Konitz, then Germany, now in Poland (1900-1902)—to consider the means by which discredited beliefs came to seem once again plausible. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts February 2022 13 images 312pp 9780812253764 £56.00 HB now £39.20
Who Speaks for Nature? On the Politics of Science Laura Ephraim
In Who Speaks for Nature?, Laura Ephraim reveals the roots of scientific authority in what she calls "worldbuilding politics": the collection of practices through which scientists and citizens collaborate with and struggle against each other to engage natural things and events and to construct a shared yet heterogeneous world. Through innovative readings of some of the most important thinkers of science and politics of the near and distant past, including René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Giambattista Vico, and Hannah Arendt, Ephraim argues that the natural sciences are political because they are crucial sites in which the worldly relationships that bind together the human and nonhuman are inherited, augmented, and reconstructed. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS December 2017 200pp 9780812249811 £52.00 HB now £36.40
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The Histories of HIVs
The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics Edited by William H. Schneider “The most comprehensive account yet published of HIV’s emergence and dispersal across the African continent, this richly detailed, multidisciplinary collection traces the varied origins of the multiple strains of HIV. This superb book adds new understanding to the ecological, medical, and sexual contexts within which AIDS epidemics first developed.”–Shane Doyle, professor of African history, University of Leeds In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic. This book spans disciplines to topple popular narratives about the origins of the AIDS pandemic and the impact of the disease on public health policy. OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Perspectives on Global Health January 2022 280pp 9780821424926 £31.00 PB now £21.70
Forgotten Disease
Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine Hilary A. Smith "Smith traces jiaoqi's history from its first mention in a fourth-century Chinese medical formulary as an affliction of northerners when living in "South China" to its thirteenth-century identity as a northerner's dietary disorder, through a sixteenth-century shift to a disease of consumption akin to gout, and into modern permutations from beriberi to athlete's foot in East Asia....Its potential readership...extend[s] to historians of Western medical imperialism, colonial medicine, East Asian public health history, and the global history of public health." –Marta Hanson, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University October 2017 280pp 9781503603448 £20.99 PB now £14.69
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