Research, Resources, Perspectives
Contrasts three interpretations of drunkenness within the academic discourse of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: drunkenness as a disease, as an addiction, and as a form of degeneration and shows how these interpretations impacted the public perception of excessive drinkers.
Details the food knowledge gained when NASA sent astronauts to America’s SkyLab space station and experimented with different packaging.
Shows how the history of “race” science can be transformed into a history of knowledge by focusing on the “collecting” process, concentrating on the endeavors of the anatomists Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), and Paul Broca (1824–1880).
Author presents her book “Psychiatric Institutions and Society,” which probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes.
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
The author presents his book, which constitutes an analytical account of Ian Hacking’s styles of reasoning project and explores its philosophical implications.
Discusses history of risk as an emerging field and the ways it overlaps with the history of knowledge. Uses transnational perspectives on fire-fighting technologies as an example.
My book Underground Mathematics tells the story of a discipline that has been forgotten today, subterranean geometry. Known as “the art of setting limits” (Markscheidekunst) in German and geometria subterranea in Latin
Who do fossils belong to? The question is far from new: in various guises, it has preoccupied paleoscientists, museum curators, and occasionally officials for many years, although ongoing debates about the decolonization of science and natural history collections have renewed its significance.
Montaigne’s celebration of ignorance and simplicity in his erudite Essays (1580) may seem paradoxical at first, but such praises were not uncommon in the early modern period. Montaigne’s friend, Pierre Charron, made similar claims two decades later in his widely read treatise Of Wisdome.
