"Osiris "annually examines a particular topic in the history of science, bringing together experts in the field to consider multiple aspects of the time period, episode, or theme. Volume 22 explores the ways that twentieth-century political institutions and the human sciences in the western world attempted to understand and shape the attitudes and behaviors of individuals."
"Osiris "annually examines a particular topic in the history of science, bringing together experts in the field to consider multiple aspects of the...
Bringing together historians of science and medicine with environmental historians, and adding more contemporary vantage points from geography, anthropology, and sociology, Osiris Volume 19: Landscapes of Exposure offers an unprecedented interdisciplinary depiction of how, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, scientists and lay people have generated methods for connecting health and place, disease and ecology, calculation and risk.
Bringing together historians of science and medicine with environmental historians, and adding more contemporary vantage points from geography, anthro...
The newest annual volume of "Osiris," "Intelligentsia Science" explores the transformations in science in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, from serfdom to Sputnik, as a series of developments in Russian culture. The contributors argue that it was the generation of the 1860s that transformed intelligentsia into a central notion of Russian popular discourse, cementing its association with revolutionary politics and with science. Science became the cornerstone of the intelligentsia s ideological and political projects, either as an alternative to socialism, or more often as its...
The newest annual volume of "Osiris," "Intelligentsia Science" explores the transformations in science in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, ...
The everyday practice of historical scholarship is by necessity small-scaled and specialized. This essential volume for historians of science reveals how scholars in their everyday practice can work to maintain a sense of a larger purpose. The contributors were encouraged to expand their intimate experience with particular subjects to create works with a broad appeal to scholars in many disciplines. The essays are meant to be exemplars of a historiographical genre that achieve general interest in ways that are participatory, grass-roots, and non-directive.
The everyday practice of historical scholarship is by necessity small-scaled and specialized. This essential volume for historians of science revea...
This volume of Osiris integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as foils for femininity and as methods of differentiating between "kinds" of men. In exploring scientific masculinities, the book asks: how has masculinity been defined, and what are the mechanisms by which it operates in science? The essays are divided into sections that emphasize the importance of gender to the practices of...
This volume of Osiris integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by fo...
