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The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island
The 1979 partial nuclear reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island was simultaneously hyper-visible and hidden from public view. It was the subject of...
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Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936
This article examines Chen Ziying, an American-trained Chinese biologist and his prewar efforts to bring his Woods Hole experience from the United...
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The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species
Theodosius Dobzhansky was one of the principal ‘founding fathers' of the modern ‘synthetic theory of evolution' and the ‘biological species' concept,...
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The Return of the Geneticist: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Edward Chapin, and Museum Taxonomy
In Fall 1939, as war engulfed Europe, the author of one of the most influential texts on genetics and evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, wrote a...
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Ethnic Sciences
In the recording, description, analysis and, above all, evaluation of historical and current social reality by the völkisch sciences, these draw up a...
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The Visual Politics of Maralinga: Experiences, (Re)presentations, and Vulnerabilities
Visual cultures are being increasingly discussed in the history of science literature, although relatively very little of that work concerns the...
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Twining the Threads
This chapter discusses how physicists combined instruments and techniques developed during WWII and the immediate postwar in different disciplines to...
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Collaboration, Gender, and Leadership at the Minnesota Seaside Station, 1901–1907
Mentorship and collaboration necessarily shaped opportunities for women in science, especially in the late nineteenth century at rapidly expanding...
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The Man Who Transformed His Wife into a Matricultural Visionary
This chapter opens with an account of how Takamure suffered and ran away from domestic violence. Her pure heart, however, sparked an epiphanic...
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Introduction
This comparative study of patient work and occupation throws new light on a topic that has only recently attracted scholarly attention. Patient work...
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Unravelling Urban Technonatures
In this introductory chapter, we examine the historiographical development of ‘technonatures’ as an analytical lens to study the dynamic and mutable...
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Einleitung
Erfinder und Entdecker sollen wichtiger sein als Organisatoren? Nicht nach Ansicht Wilhelm Ostwalds (1853–1932), der ein Ungleichgewicht in deren...
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Light Pollution: Auroral Displays, Environmental Carcinogens, and Epidemiological Imaginings of Inuit Cancer
This chapter investigates the medical theories of Dr Otto Schaefer, a German-Canadian physician and key promulgator of the view that the aurora...
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Transnational Constructions of Social Scientific Personae during the Cold War: The Case of Comparative Politics
This chapter shows how students of comparative politics embraced certain techniques and operations of knowing against the background of the Cold War,...
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Gendered Testimonies at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
In this chapter, Michael defines gendered testimonies and delineates surrounding cultures to provide opportunities for develo** useful insights for...
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Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold
This essay is a historical–geographical account of how scientists and public health officials conceptualized and assessed northern radioactive...
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Coda: Influenza and Covid-19
More than any other epidemic disease, influenza was widely summoned as the paradigmatic infection for understanding and forecasting the possible...
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DNA in a Progressive Era, 1945–1980
Postwar systems analysis shaped many fields; new knowledge in geology reshaped study of biological evolution. DNA and its processes were documented...
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Evangelical Prophet at Girton, 1872–1875
Maynard’s experiences at the innovative Girton College for women (1872–1875) provide novel insights into both society’s crisis of faith and the...