Isis Volume 100, Number 3

Isis


Volume 100, Number 3

(September 2009)

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Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: vi.

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Articles

The Polonium Brief: A Hidden History of Cancer, Radiation, and the Tobacco Industry

Brianna Rego

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 453-484.

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Design and Dissent: Religion, Authority, and the Scientific Spirit of Robert Broom

Jesse Richmond

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 485-504.

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Small Parts: Crisóstomo Martínez (1638–1694), Bone Histology, and the Visual Making of Body Wholeness

Nuria Valverde

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 505-536.

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Focus: Darwin as a Cultural Icon

Introduction

James A. Secord

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 537-541.

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Looking at Darwin: Portraits and the Making of an Icon

Janet Browne

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 542-570.

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“You Are Here”: Missing Links, Chains of Being, and the Language of Cartoons

Constance Areson Clark

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 571-589.

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Singing His Praises: Darwin and His Theory in Song and Musical Production

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 590-614.

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News of the Profession

2008 History of Science Society Prize Citations

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 615-618.

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Eloges: Joseph Stewart Fruton, 1912–2007

William C. Summers

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 619-622.

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Eloge: Michael S. Mahoney, 1939–2008

Jed Z. Buchwald and D. Graham Burnett

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 623-626.

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

John D. Ruley

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 627.

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Letters to the Editor

Dominick A. Pisano

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 627-628.

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Letters to the Editor

Roger Cooter

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 628.

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Book Reviews

General

Jennifer Karns Alexander: The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control.

Jon Agar

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 629-630.

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John D. Barrow: Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science.

David R. Topper

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 630-631.

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Marco Beretta; Karl Grandin; Svante Lindqvist (Editors): Aurora Torealis: Studies in the History of Science and Ideas in Honor of Tore Frängsmyr.

Robert Fox

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 631-632.

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Francesca Bray; Vera Dorofeeva‐Lichtmann; Georges Métailié (Editors): Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft.

Hilary A. Smith

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 632-633.

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Grégoire Chamayou: Les corps vils: Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

Tobias Cheung

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 633-634.

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Oren Harman; Michael R. Dietrich (Editors): Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology.

Sharon Kingsland

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 634-635.

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David Boyd Haycock: Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer.

Aaron Pascal Mauck

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 635-636.

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Peter M. J. Hess; Paul L. Allen: Catholicism and Science, and Don O'Leary: Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History.

Dana A. Freiburger and Ronald L. Numbers

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 636-638.

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Nicole Hulin: L'enseignement secondaire scientifique en France d'un siècle à l'autre, 1802–1980: Évolution, permanences et décalages, and Nicole Hulin: Les femmes, l'enseignement et les sciences: Un long cheminement (XIXe–XXe siècle).

Sofie Lachapelle

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 638-639.

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Karl‐Eugen Kurrer: The History of the Theory of Structures: From Arch Analysis to Computational Mechanics.

Thomas Boothby

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 639-640.

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James E. McClellan III (Editor): The Applied‐Science Problem.

Ian Inkster

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 640-641.

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L. Piccardi; W. B. Masse (Editors): Myth and Geology.

Bernhard Fritscher

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 641-642.

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Londa Schiebinger (Editor): Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering.

Kristen Intemann

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 642-643.

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Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma: The Archaic and the Exotic: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments.

Michio Yano

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 643-644.

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Jakob Vogel: Ein schillerndes Kristall: Eine Wissensgeschichte des Salzes zwischen Früher Neuzeit und Moderne.

Warren Alexander Dym

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 644-645.

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Arnoud Vrolijk; Jan P. Hogendijk (Editors): O Ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture in Honour of Remke Kruk.

Sonja Brentjes

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 645-646.

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Book Reviews

Antiquity

Michael N. Fried; Sabetai Unguru: Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext.

Fabio Acerbi

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 646-647.

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Susan P. Mattern: Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing.

Laurence Totelin

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 647-648.

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Book Reviews

Middle Ages and Renaissance

Sylvain Gouguenheim: Aristote au Mont‐Saint‐Michel: Les racines grecques de l'Europe chrétienne.

Steven J. Livesey

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 648-650.

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Helen King: Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth‐Century Compendium.

Katharine Park

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 650-651.

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William H.Sherman: Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England.

Karen Reeds

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 651-652.

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Book Reviews

Early Modern (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)

John Dunmore: Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean‐François de la Pérouse.

James E. McClellan

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 652-653.

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Roger L. Emerson: Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews Universities.

David B. Wilson

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 653-654.

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Ursula Goldenbaum; Douglas Jesseph (Editors): Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries.

Craig Fraser

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 654-655.

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Sara S. Gronim: Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York.

Pamela Henson

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 655-656.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Protogaea, trans. and ed. by Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield.

M. D. Eddy

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 657-658.

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Frank Linhard: Newtons Spirits und der Leibnizsche Raum,

Patricia Radelet–de Grave

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 658-659.

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Robert L. Martensen: The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History.

Charles T. Wolfe

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 659.

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Anita McConnell: Jesse Ramsden (1735– 1800): London's Leading Scientific Instrument Maker.

Pedro Raposo

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 659-660.

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Steven Matthews: Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon.

Peter Harrison

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 660-661.

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Paolo Palmieri: Reenacting Galileo's Experiments: Rediscovering the Techniques of Seventeenth‐Century Science.

Joseph C. Pitt

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 661-662.

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Pamela H. Smith; Benjamin Schmidt (Editors): Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800.

H. Floris Cohen

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 662-663.

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Book Reviews

Modern (Nineteenth Century to 1950)

Warwick Anderson: Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines.

Pauline M. H. Mazumdar

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 663-664.

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Daniel Beer: Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930.

Daniel P. Todes

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 664-665.

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William H. Brock: William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science.

Richard Noakes

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 665-667.

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Cristina Chimisso: Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s.

Warren Schmaus

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 667-668.

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Patrick Coffey: Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry.

Robert J. Paradowski

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 668-669.

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Alex D. D. Craik: Mr. Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century.

Karen Hunger Parshall

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 669-670.

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Adrian Desmond; James Moore: Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution.

Sadiah Qureshi

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 670-671.

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Sander Gliboff: H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation.

Peter J. Bowler

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 671-672.

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Dieter Hoffmann: Max Planck: Die Entstehung der modernen Physik.

Clayton Gearhart

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 672-673.

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Eva Johach: Krebszelle und Zellenstaat: Zur medizinischen und politischen Metaphorik in Rudolf Virchows Zellularpathologie.

Andrew Reynolds

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 673-674.

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Doug Macdougall: Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything.

Marianne Sommer

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 674-675.

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Ralph O'Connor: The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856.

Jim Paradis

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 675-676.

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Anne O'Connor: Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: A History of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Quaternary Geology in Britain, 1860–1960.

David Oldroyd

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 676-677.

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Gregory Radick: The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language.

Tania Munz

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 677-679.

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Michael Brian Schiffer: Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison.

Peter Shulman

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 679-680.

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Jagdish N. Sinha: Science, War, and Imperialism: India in the Second World War.

David Edgerton

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 680-681.

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Nelly Tsouyopoulos: Asklepios und die Philosophen: Paradigmawechsel in der Medizin im 19. Jahrhundert. ed. by Claudia Wiesemann, Barbara Bröoker, and Sabine Rogge.

Frederick Gregory

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 681-682.

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Book Reviews

Recent (1950–)

Caroline Hannaway (Editor): Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics.

Kenton Kroker

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 682-683.

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Kristen Haring: Ham Radio's Technical Culture.

Sungook Hong

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 683-684.

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Kelly A.Joyce: Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency.

Isabelle Dussauge

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 684-685.

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W. Patrick McCray: Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age.

Steven J. Dick

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 685-686.

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Robert Poole: Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth.

W. Patrick McCray

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 686-687.

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Ulf Schmidt; Andreas Frewer (Editors): History and Theory of Human Experimentation: The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics.

Anne Cottebrune

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 687-688.

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Edward Shorter; David Healy: Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness.

Otniel E. Dror

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 688-690.

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Book Reviews

Sociology and Philosophy of Science

James A.Marcum: Thomas Kuhn's Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of Science.

Jay Foster

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 690-691.

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Massimo Mazzotti (Editor): Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes.

Sergio Sismondo

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 691.

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Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger: Historische Epistemologie zur Einführung.

Rafael Ziegler

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 692.

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Brian Rotman: Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being.

Evelyn Fox Keller

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 692-693.

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Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Isis September 2009, Vol. 100, No. 3: 694-698.

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