Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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1. Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology

   1920 to the Present

   By Benoît Godin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   How do we objectively measure scientific activities? What proportion of economic activities should a society devote to research and development? How can public-sector and private-sector research best be directed to achieve social goals? Governments and researchers from industrial countries have...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Interferon

   The Science and Selling of a Miracle Drug

   By Toine Pieters

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   This innovative study charts the beginnings, history and fate of Interferon - one of modern medicine's most famous and infamous drugs. Interferon is part of the medical profession's armoury against viral infection, cancer and MS. The story of its development and use is one of survival in the face...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

   Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception

   By Andrea Kitta

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate. Through the use of ethnographic, media, and narrative analyses, this book explores the vernacular explanatory models used in inoculation decision-making. The research on...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. From Molecular Genetics to Genomics

   The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics

   Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. Maps of genomes have become the icons for a comprehensive knowledge of the organism on a previously unattained level of complexity, and the organisation of genetic knowledge in maps has been a major driving force in the...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
5. Public Understanding of Science

   A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas

   By David Knight

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   Answering questions such as whether the interesting parts of science be conveyed in sermons, poems, pictures and journalism, Knight explores the history of science to show how the successes and failures of our ancestors can help us understand the position science comes to occupy now....

   Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
6. Global Science and National Sovereignty

   Edited by Grégoire Mallard, Catherine Paradeise, Ashveen Peerbaye

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science provides detailed case studies on how sovereignty has been constructed, reaffirmed, and transformed in the twentieth century by the construction of scientific disciplines, knowledge practices, and research...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry

   Changing Relationships in Britain and France, 1935–1965

   By Viviane Quirke

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   Examining the issue of 'British decline' after the war, this fascinating text describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues that the relationship between these two countries helped to disseminate a culture of research, resulting in the transformation of the medical...

   Published October 7th 2007 by Routledge
8. The Social Construction of Disease

   From Scrapie to Prion

   By Kiheung Kim

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research and...

   Published October 25th 2006 by Routledge
9. The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine

   Writing Recent Science

   By Ronald E. Doel, Thomas Söderqvist

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with the history of contemporary science are debated with growing frequency and urgency. Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography and...

   Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge
10. Classical Genetic Research and its Legacy

    The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics

    Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

    With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of mapping procedures as they were developed in classical genetics. An accompanying volume - From Molecular Genetics to Genomics - covers the history of molecular genetics and...

    Published October 6th 2004 by Routledge