New Books in Medicine
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, “The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe
Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network November 26, 2018 Maia Woolner

The prologue to The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (University of Chicago Press, 2018) begins by provocatively invoking a question American physiologist Walter Cannon first asked in 1926: “Why don’t we die daily?” In the erudite chapters that follow, Stefanos Geroulanos and... Read More
Nivedita Lakhera, “Pillow of Dreams” (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017)
Nivedita Lakhera
Pillow of Dreams

Nivedita Lakhera, 2017

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in MedicineNew Books in PoetryNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 21, 2018 Jeremy Corr

Pillow of Dreams (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017) is an intensely emotional and inspirational collection of poetry and art by Dr. Nivedita Lakhera. She experienced a stroke, divorce, and then a heartbreak all at the young age of 27. She is a doctor of Internal Medicine and is serving as a Hospitalist... Read More
Shobita Parthasarathy, “Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Shobita Parthasarathy
Patent Politics
Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe
University of Chicago Press, 2017

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in LawNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network November 21, 2018 Chad J. Valasek

In Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Shobita Parthasarathy takes us through a thirty year history of the legal debates around patents. This is an understudied area of STS that Parthasarathy carefully navigates in order to understand... Read More
Hugh Cagle, “Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Hugh Cagle
Assembling the Tropics
Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 22, 2018 Lance C. Thurner

Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Hugh Cagle is an exciting analysis of the production of the tropics as an idea and as a dimension of imperialism through the development of the Portuguese empire.  The global connections forged by seafaring empires... Read More
Robert A. Wilson, “The Eugenic Mind Project” (MIT Press, 2017)
Robert A. Wilson
The Eugenic Mind Project

MIT Press, 2017

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 15, 2018 Carrie Figdor

For most of us, eugenics — the “science of improving the human stock” — is a thing of the past, commonly associated with Nazi Germany and government efforts to promote a pure Aryan race. This view is incorrect: even in California, for example, sterilization of those deemed mentally defective was... Read More

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