Curing with Machines: Medical Electricity in 18th-C. Paris
Before Volta and Tesla, before Hertz and Edison and Westinghouse, […]
View ArticleMorality and Chimeras in a Posthuman World
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to bring over […]
View ArticleExorcising the Demons of our Past: Why Eugenics Wasn’t What You Think It Was,...
BOOK REVIEW: Comfort, Nathaniel. The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. *I’m going to be bringing a few […]
View ArticleResponding to some comments on Dissertation Embargoes
My recent piece on embargoing one’s dissertation, even more than I expected now that the things here get simultaneously posted on scienceblog’s main page, got some decent traffic. As always, […]
View ArticleThe Republic of Nature: American History is Environmental History
BOOK REVIEW: Fiege, Mark. Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. It’s a strange day when a book arrives in […]
View ArticleLetting History and Evolution and Math Teach Us How to Vote
Sometimes the only consolation I can drag myself towards–lying awake at night as I wonder at the financial and vocational vacuum that is a doctorate in the history of science—is […]
View ArticleWhy I Placed a Digital Embargo on My Dissertation, and Maybe You Should Too
By Ry Marcattilio-McCracken Rarely will you find me on the side of the fence that argues against open-access. Who, after all, could argue against the free dissemination of knowledge without […]
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