Books by Londa Schiebinger

This book explores the history of drug development and testing in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, looking especially at whether slaves were exploited in human medical experiments at the time.

In the 18th century, bioprospectors sponsored by European imperial powers brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples from the New World to their king and country. This book explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.

18th-century natural historians created a peculiar but durable vision of nature, embodying the sexual and racial tensions of that era. Plants were found to reproduce sexually, and great apes were just becoming known. This text uncovers the ways in which assumptions about sex, and race have shaped scientific explanations of nature.

This book is a history of women in science and an assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Schiebinger considers the lives of women scientists, past and present, and debunks the myth that women scientists-because they are women-are somehow more holistic and integrative and create more cooperative scientific communities.