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Diane Tober, “Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families” (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Diane Tober
Romancing the Sperm
Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families
Rutgers University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 15, 2019 Dannah Dennis

The development of a whole suite of new reproductive technologies in recent decades has contributed to broad cultural conversations and controversies over the meaning of family in the United States. In Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families (Rutgers University Press, 2018), Diane Tober analyzes how... Read More
Raul Espejo, “Cybernetics and Systems: Social and Business Decisions” (Routledge, 2019)
Raul Espejo
Cybernetics and Systems
Social and Business Decisions
Routledge, 2019

New Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in Systems and CyberneticsNew Books Network May 10, 2019 Tom Scholte

Regular listeners of this podcast will, no doubt, be familiar with the name of Raul Espejo, former Director of Operations of Stafford Beer’s famed Cybersyn Project under the Chilean government of Salvador Allende in the early 1970’s. On this episode, the esteemed Dr. Espejo joins us in his role as... Read More
Karin Rosemblatt, “The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950” (UNC Press, 2018)
Karin Rosemblatt
The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network May 9, 2019 Jesse Zarley

Karin Rosemblatt’s new book, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), traces how U.S.- and Mexican-trained intellectuals, social and human scientists, and anthropologists applied their ethnographic field work on indigenous and Native American peoples on both sides of... Read More
Clayton Whisnant, “Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880-1945” (Harrington Park Press, 2016)
Clayton Whisnant
Queer Identities and Politics in Germany
A History, 1880-1945
Harrington Park Press, 2016

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network May 8, 2019 Michael E. O’Sullivan

Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world’s first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. In his new book, Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A... Read More
Eric Topol, “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again” (Basic Books, 2019)
Eric Topol
Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Basic Books, 2019

New Books in MedicineNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network May 7, 2019 Jeremy Corr

Medicine has lost its humanity. Doctors no longer have the time to make personal connections with their patients. In his new book Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (Basic Books, 2019), Eric Topol explores how AI can help to fix many of the issues medicine is... Read More
Jessica Pierce, “Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible” (New World Library, 2019)
Jessica Pierce
Unleashing Your Dog
A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible
New World Library, 2019

New Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network May 7, 2019 Greg Soden

No matter how cushy their lives, dogs live on our terms. They compromise their freedom and instinctual pleasure, as well as their innate strategies for coping with stress and anxiety, in exchange for the love, comfort, and care they get from us. But it is possible to let dogs be... Read More
Peter Daou, “Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace” (Melville House, 2019)
Peter Daou
Digital Civil War
Confronting the Far-Right Menace
Melville House, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network May 6, 2019 Bill Scher

Democratic political adviser Peter Daou has long toggled between the world of presidential campaigns and online activism. He worked for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry in 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2008, and he has built a large social media presence with which he wages battles for progressive causes.... Read More