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Book Review: Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers by...
What can we learn when we study people across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists, and in Lives in Science he tracks...
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Book Review: Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future...
Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: what does it mean to be ‘human’ in the 21st century? As definitions between what is ‘animal’ and what is ‘human’ break down, and...
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Book Review: The Law-Science Chasm: Bridging Law’s Disaffection with Science...
The Law-Science Chasm considers the problematic relationship between science and law, with author Cedric Charles Gilson offering a way to mediate and translate their different perspectives and...
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Book Review: Animal Studies: An Introduction by Paul Waldau
Animal studies seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changed over time, across cultures, and across different ways of thinking....
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Book Review: Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in...
In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory...
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Book Review: Medicine and Empire 1600-1960 by Pratik Chakrabarti
This book aims to provide an introduction to the shared history of modern medicine and imperialism – spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia...
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Book Review: Are We All Scientific Experts Now? by Harry Collins
A series of recent scientific scandals, frauds, and failures have led some to question science’s pre–eminence. Revelations such as Climategate or debates about the safety of the MMR vaccine have dented...
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Book Review: Can Science Fix Climate Change? by Mike Hulme
As political solutions to climate change have so far had little impact, some climate change scientists are now advocating the so-called ‘Plan B’, a more direct way of reducing the rate of future...
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Book Review: Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and...
Across 13 chapters, scholars from media studies and science and technology studies offer insights into how we can see media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. Topics include the lived...
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Book Review: Can Science Make Sense of Life? by Sheila Jasanoff
In Can Science Make Sense of Life?, Sheila Jasanoff questions whether the scientific capacity to manipulate life at the molecular level should also give science the authority to define what life is...
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