Isis 97 (2006), 3

Isis - Volume 97, Number 3 - (September 2006)

is now available at
www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/contents?ISIS+v97n3

Table of Contents

ARTICLES
Frontispiece
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A Lens of Many Facets: Science through a Family's Eyes
Deborah R. Coen
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Patrons of the Revolution:
Hunter Crowther-Heyck
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The 1909 Darwin Celebration:
Marsha L. Richmond
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FOCUS: GETTING BACK TO THE DEATH OF NATURE: REREADING CAROLYN MERCHANT
Introduction
Joan Cadden
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Women, Gender, and Utopia: The Death of Nature and the Historiography of Early Modern Science
Katharine Park
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Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming The Death of Nature
Gregg Mitman
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Back to Nature?
Charis THOMPSON
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The Scientific Revolution and the Death of Nature
Carolyn Merchant
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
John T. Blackmore
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ESSAY REVIEWS
Science in Late Imperial ChinaBenjamin A. Elman: On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900
Fa-ti Fan
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Intimate BiotechnologyJoan Rothschild: The Dream of the Perfect ChildCharis Thompson: Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
Susan Lindee
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From Science to Industry? Flaws in the Linear ModelKarl Grandin; Nina Wormbs; Sven Widmalm (Editors): The Science-Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications
David E. Nye
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BOOK REVIEWS
Patricia Fara: An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment, Jeff Hughes: The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb, and John Waller: The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think about Disease,
rev. by Marjorie C. Malley
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Arthur Greenberg: The Art of Chemistry: Myths, Medicines, and Materials,
rev. by Peter Ramberg
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Gerald N. Grob: The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America,
rev. by Michelle Murphy
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Christiane Groeben; Joachim Kaasch; Michael Kaasch (Editors): Statten biologischer Forschung/Places of Biological Research,
rev. by Keith R. Benson
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Santiago Huerta: Arcos, bovedas y cupulas: Geometria y equilibrio en el calculo tradicional de estructuras de fabrica,
rev. by Luciano Boschiero
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Geoffrey J. Martin: All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas,
rev. by Alex Checkovich
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David Park: The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance,
rev. by Patricia Fara
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Christian C. Young: The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction,
rev. by Keely Maxwell
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Ken Alder: The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World,
rev. by Suzanne Debarbat
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Sylvia Bowerbank: Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England,
rev. by Shana Cohen
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Lisa Forman Cody: Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons,
rev. by Ludmilla Jordanova
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David Boyd Haycock: William Stukeley: Science, Religion, and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England,
rev. by Matthew R. Goodrum
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Claire Preston: Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science,
rev. by Michael Hunter
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Jean-Marc Rohrbasser; Jacques Veron: Leibniz et les raisonnements sur la vie humaine,
rev. by Francois Duchesneau
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Margaret Schabas; Neil De Marchi (Editors): Oeconomies in the Age of Newton,
rev. by Rob Iliffe
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William R. Shea: Designing Experiments and Games of Chance: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal,
rev. by Matthew L. Jones
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C. U. M. Smith; Robert Arnott (Editors): The Genius of Erasmus Darwin,
rev. by Maureen McNeil
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Claude Blanckaert: La nature de la societe: Organicisme et sciences sociales au XIXe siecle,
rev. by Warren Schmaus
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Mineke Bosch: Aletta Jacobs 1854-1929: Een onwrikbaar geloof in rechtvaardigheid,
rev. by Ida H. Stamhuis
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Pratik Chakrabarti: Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices,
rev. by Satpal Sangwan
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Hunter Crowther-Heyck: Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America,
rev. by Jon Agar
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Robert Darby: A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain,
rev. by Janet Miron
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Aant Elzinga; Torgny Nordin; David Turner; Urban Wrakberg (Editors): Antarctic Challenges: Historical and Current Perspectives on Otto Nordenskjold's Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1903,
rev. by P. J. Capelotti
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Nancy Thorndike Greenspan: The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born: The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution,
rev. by Richard H. Beyler
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Charles Hayter: An Element of Hope: Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada, 1900-1940,
rev. by Peter Keating
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Danian Hu: China and Albert Einstein: The Reception of the Physicist and His Theory in China, 1917-1979,
rev. by Tian Yu Cao
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D. Brett King; Michael Wertheimer: Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory,
rev. by David J. Murray
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Nikolai Krementsov: International Science between the World Wars: The Case of Genetics,
rev. by Paolo Palladino
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Christopher Lawrence: Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory, and Medicine in Edinburgh, 1919-1930: New Science in an Old Country,
rev. by Robert E. Kohler
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David Lebrun: Proteus: A Nineteenth-Century Vision,
rev. by Helen M. Rozwadowski
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Diana E. Manuel (Editor): Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834-1835,
rev by Susan C. Lawrence
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Daniel Pauly: Darwin's Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology, and Evolution,
rev. by Gregory Radick
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Harold L. Platt: Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago,
rev. by Jeffrey K. Stine
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Michael Ruse: The Evolution-Creation Struggle,
rev. by Edward B. Davis
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Robert J. Spear: The Great Gypsy Moth War: The History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901,
rev. by Christine Keiner
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Sarah W. Tracy: Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition,
rev. by John C. Burnham
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Peter L. Twohig: Labour in the Laboratory: Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes, 1900-1950,
rev. by Floyd E. Thurston
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Alexander von Schwerin: Experimentalisierung des Menschen: Der Genetiker Hans Nachtsheim und die vergleichende Erbpathologie 1920-1945,
rev. by Mitchell G. Ash
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David M. Berube: Nano-Hype: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz,
rev. by W. Patrick McCray
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Irene K. Fischer: Geodesy? What's That? My Personal Involvement in the Age-Old Quest for the Size and Shape of the Earth, with a Running Commentary on Life in a Government Research Office,
rev. by Duncan Agnew
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin: Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science,
rev. by Harold L. Burstyn
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Laura Hein: Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan,
rev. by Morris Low
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W. D. Kay: Defining NASA: The Historical Debate over the Agency's Mission,
rev. by Virginia P. Dawson
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Chris Mooney: The Republican War on Science,
rev. by David Sepkoski
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J. Samuel Walker: Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective,
rev. by Robert W. Seidel
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Steven Weber: The Success of Open Source,
rev. by Tarleton Gillespie
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Jeanne Daly: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care,
rev. by Kirstin Borgerson
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Joseph LaPorte: Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change,
rev. by Gordon McOuat
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Dominique Pestre: Science, argent et politique: Un essai d'interpretation,
rev. by Isabelle Stengers
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S. L. Zabell: Symmetry and Its Discontents: Essays on the History of Inductive Probability,
rev. by Byron E. Wall
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John P. Jackson, Jr.; Nadine M. Weidman: Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction,
rev. by Elizabeth Green Musselman
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Sal Restivo (Editor): Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia,
rev. by Amy Slaton
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Notes on Contributors
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