Isis

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    Letter to the Editors.Leonardo Ambasciano - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):187-188.
  2. : 150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium.Howard G. Barth - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):213-214.
  3. Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021).Keith R. Bengtsson & Kristin Johnson - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):176-181.
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    : The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life.Arnav Bhattacharya - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):225-226.
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    : Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear.Amy Sue Bix - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):209-210.
  6. : Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life.Melissa Charenko - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):230-231.
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    Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology.Iris Clever - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):25-49.
    This essay introduces an anthropological practice that remains largely unexplored in the historical literature on racial science: biometrics. In the early twentieth century, biometricians analyzed skull measurements using novel statistical methods to demonstrate racial biological differences. Drawing on new archival material, the essay reveals how these biometric data practices challenged racist anthropology. Between 1934 and 1952, Geoffrey Morant, an expert on biometry and race in Karl Pearson’s Biometric Laboratory in London, mobilized biometry to debunk Nazi racial theories. He informed the (...)
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    : Urban Gottfried Bucher (1679–1724).Simone De Angelis - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):197-198.
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    From the Radio Shack to the Cosmos: Listening to Sputnik during the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958).Veronica Della Dora - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):123-149.
    Whereas literature on satellites and outer space exploration has usually been dominated by vision, humankind’s initial encounter with the Earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, was overwhelmingly sonic. Tracking was originally enabled by the signal continuously transmitted by its radio beacon. Embedded in the International Geophysical Year (IGY) citizen science programs, radio amateurs played a crucial role in receiving the signal and assisting professional scientists in tracking the satellite in its initial phases. Their established existence as a distinctive worldwide community (...)
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    : Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture.Ian Duncan - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):198-199.
  11. : Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications.Haris A. Durrani - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):226-227.
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    : Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare.Ariane Hanemaayer - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):231-232.
  13. Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931–2022).Marta Hanson, Michael Nylan & Hilary A. Smith - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):182-186.
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    Editors’ Note.Alexandra Hui & Matthew Lavine - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):1-1.
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    : The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure.Judith Kaplan - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):223-224.
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    : Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond.Elizabeth Koester - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):217-218.
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    : The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science.Philippa Lang - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):193-194.
  18. : Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914.Philippa Levine - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):205-206.
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    Tug-of-War: Bones and Stones as Scientific Objects in Postcolonial Indonesia.Paige Madison - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):77-98.
    This essay examines a controversy that erupted in 2004 over the bones of a human relative discovered in Indonesia, proclaimed to be a new species named Homo floresiensis. It argues that the controversy comprised two intertwined struggles with roots in Indonesia’s colonial history. Indonesia’s transition to an independent country, it contends, gave rise to a particular set of cultural values, scientific practices, and theories that resulted in scientific objects becoming tied to national identity in ways that shaped the debates. Highlighting (...)
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    : The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History.Michelle Mart - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):218-219.
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    : Erasmus Darwin’s Gardens: Medicine, Agriculture and the Enlightenment Sciences.Minakshi Menon - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):201-202.
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    : A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century.Brittany Myburgh - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):207-208.
  23. : Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia.Sarah Naramore - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):202-203.
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    The Myth of the “One-Sex” Body.Katharine Park - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):150-175.
    In Making Sex (1990), Thomas Laqueur argued for a dramatic shift in Western medical understandings of sex difference circa 1800, falsely claiming that before then women were generally understood as imperfect men, their genitals trapped inside their bodies by their lack of complexional heat. In fact, the period before 1800 saw the coexistence of competing traditions relating to genital anatomy and function, in which Arabic medical compendia, largely ignored by Laqueur, played an important role. European interest in the inside/out model (...)
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    : The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance.Sharrona Pearl - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):194-195.
  26. : A New History of Modern Computing.Victor Petrov - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):219-220.
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    : Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes.Irina Podgorny - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):215-216.
  28. : Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment.Paul Ramírez - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):203-204.
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    : Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities.Emily Lim Rogers - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):229-230.
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    : Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War.Corinna Schlombs - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):220-222.
  31. The Prenatal Gaze.Susanne Schmidt - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):189-192.
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    Inventing the Scientific Revolution.James A. Secord - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):50-76.
    As a master narrative for understanding the emergence of the modern world, the concept of a seventeenth-century scientific revolution has been central to the history of science. It is generally believed that this key analytical framework was created in Europe and became widely used for the first time during the Cold War through the writings of Herbert Butterfield and Alexander Koyré. This view, however, is mistaken. The scientific revolution is largely a product of debates about social reconstruction in the United (...)
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    : Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo.Laura M. Shelton - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):210-211.
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    : Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya.Thomas Simpson - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):206-207.
  35. : Erdöl: Ein Atlas der Petromoderne.Jens Soentgen - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):214-215.
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    : Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity.Edna Suárez-Díaz - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):222-223.
  37. : Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal.Paul S. Sutter - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):227-228.
  38. : Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity.Akihito Suzuki - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):199-200.
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    African Indigo in the French Atlantic: Michel Adanson’s Encounter with Senegal.Mary Terrall - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):2-24.
    The French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in precolonial Senegal in the 1750s, under the auspices of the Compagnie des Indes. This essay follows the archival traces of Adanson’s engagement with African indigo, including experiments conducted in an ad hoc “laboratory” near the French fort of Saint Louis. A reconstruction of these experiments exposes the multifarious connections to and from the island garden-laboratory, mediated by materials and different kinds of indigo knowledge, including that of local Wolof informants. A microhistory (...)
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    : Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950.Urmi Engineer Willoughby - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):211-213.
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    Administration of Perception: Observing and Transcribing Dead Bodies in the Forensic Methodology of Qing China (1644–1912). [REVIEW]Xin-zhe Xie - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):99-122.
    This essay examines the ways in which dead bodies were transformed by traditional Chinese forensic methodology into objects of postmortem examination during the Qing dynasty. The Qing authorities implemented various devices to standardize not only the forensic examination as an administrative procedure but also the cognitive activities involved, such as corpse observation, wound interpretation, and transcription. The essay argues that these devices, such as the official forensic manual, formalized documents, and strict norms of documenting, were constituents of a specific pattern (...)
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  42. : Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany.Elizabeth Yale - 2023 - Isis 114 (1):195-196.
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