New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
 Megan Raby, “American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science” (UNC Press, 2017)
Megan Raby
American Tropics
The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
University of North Carolina Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society September 18, 2018 Alejandra Bronfman

American science and empire have a long mutual history. In American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Megan Raby takes us to Caribbean sites that expanded the reach of American ecology and tropical biology. Research stations in Cuba, British Guiana, Panama and Jamaica... Read More
Andrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Andrew J. Hogan
Life Histories of Genetic Disease
Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network September 13, 2018 Mikey McGovern

How did clinicians learn to see the human genome? In Life Histories of Genetic Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Andrew J. Hogan makes the subtle argument that a process described by scholars of biomedicine as “molecularization” took place gradually and unevenly as genetic tools became applied to prenatal diagnosis.... Read More
Rebecca Reich, “State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent After Stalin” (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
Rebecca Reich
State of Madness
Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent After Stalin
Northern Illinois University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network September 10, 2018 Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

In her new book, State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent After Stalin (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Rebecca Reich argues that Soviet dissident writers used literary narratives to counter state-sanctioned psychiatric diagnoses of insanity. Reich discusses the interesting literary preoccupations of Soviet psychiatrists and psychiatric discourse in the post-Stalin era... Read More
Megan Ward, “Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character” (OSU Press, 2018)
Megan Ward
Seeming Human
Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character
The Ohio State University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network September 7, 2018 Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Artificial intelligence and Victorian literature: these two notions seem incompatible. AI brings us to the age of information and technology, whereas Victorian literature invites us to the world of lengthy novels, to the world of the written word. In spite of seeming incongruity the AI and Victorian literature evoke, the... Read More
N.A.J. Taylor and R. Jacobs, eds., “Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War” (Routledge, 2017)
N.A.J. Taylor and R. Jacobs, eds.
Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War
Routledge, 2017

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network September 5, 2018 Nathan Hopson

N.A.J. Taylor and Robert Jacobs,’s edited volume Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War (Routledge, 2017) developed out of a special journal issue of Critical Military Studies organized on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Taylor and Jacobs have gathered... Read More

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