Books in the Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine series

This book provides an historical examination of official science and technology statistics and indicators in Western countries.

We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book looks at the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture.

This book focuses on the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture.

With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of molecular genetics and genomics.

What level of scientific training is necessary to understand contemporary science? Does the lack of historical perspective prevent good scholarship? This text answers these questions.

Patrice Pinell's socio-historical approach to the early developments in the fight against cancer describes how scientific, therapeutic, philanthropic, ethical, social, economic and political interest combined to transform medicine.

With the rise of genomics, life sciences have entered a new era. This text provides a history of mapping procedures as they were developed in classical genetics. It shows the technology of genetic mapping is by no means a recent acquisition and demonstrates that the development of mapping technologies has accompanied the rise of modern genetics.

Examining the issue of 'British decline' after the war, this book describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues that the relationship between these two countries helped to disseminate a culture of research, resulting in the transformation of the medical sciences and the pharmaceutical industry in both countries.

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called 'prion diseases', this book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

Studies the history of natural historical investigations of insects in the light of the growing institutional organization of the agricultural sciences in the United States and Canada, exploring how this context has shaped the emergence of economic entomology and ecology.

The contours of space exploration in the latter half of the 20th century owe much to the seminal but hardly singular event of Sputnik. This work looks at how this event changed history on October 4th, 1957 when the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1.

This unique comparative history of scientific policies and practices in the 20th century brings together a number of case studies to examine the relationship between science and the dominant ideology of a state.

A look at the relationship between the development of science and the development of military technology during the Cold War.

Answering questions such as whether the interesting parts of science be conveyed in sermons, poems, pictures and journalism, the author explores the history of science to show how the successes and failures of our ancestors can help us understand the position science comes to occupy now.

Tione Pieters charts the history and development of one of the most important medical substances of the 20th century, Interferon, as a drug. The author looks at the development of Interferon through the worlds of biological and clinical research, the pharmaceutical industry, doctors, patients, and many more.

We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture.

The Analogue Alternative tracks the development, commercialisation and ultimate decline of the electronic analogue computer in the USA and Britain.

This book focuses on the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture.

This text gathers together examples of the current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the key areas of historical debate.

Shows how sovereignty has been constructed, reaffirmed, and transformed in the Twentieth century by the construction of scientific disciplines, knowledge practices, and research objects. This book offers a redefinition of the modern concept of sovereignty and an illuminating reassessment of the role of science in political life.

These papers provide an investigation of the contribution made by women to the traditionally male-dominated industry of engineering. Women engineers are looked at in an historical context, and from a cross-cultural and socio-economic perspective.

A comprehensive history of molecular genetics and genomics, this text shows how the genetic cartography of classical genetics was linked to the molecular analysis of gene structure through the introduction of new model organisms such as bacteria and addresses the moral and political economy of human genome sequencing.

This book traces the development of ideas about the transmission of disease during the last century to a point where a clear distinction was established between transmission by infection and genetic transmission.

In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology.

This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices and beliefs. These ideas are examined in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems.

Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography and methodology of contemporary science, this book reviews the problems facing historians of technology, contemporary science and medicine and explores ways forward.