43 – Creole Technologies – Global Southern adaptations to or modifications of northern-invented technologies – corrugated metal roofing, [...]
2 June, 2019
David Edgerton – The Shock of the Old
“Such critiques remain unthinkable because of the real/constructed divide (sometimes formulated as a division between nature and culture), in which many map the knowledge of the real onto the domain of science (equating the constructed with the cultural).” Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 22.
2 April, 2018
Karin Matchett – At Odds over Inbreeding: An Abandoned Attempt at Mexico/United States Collaboration to ‘Improve’ Mexican Corn, 1940-1950
Karin Matchett, “At Odds over Inbreeding: An Abandoned Attempt at Mexico/United States Collaboration to ‘Improve’ Mexican Corn, [...]
27 February, 2018
Patricia Fara – Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Englightenment
Patricia Fara, Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Englightenment (London: Pimlico, 2004). Notes 16 – “Because experimental [...]
3 February, 2018
“English Baconianism suited men who aimed to govern. ‘For knowledge itself is power,’ Bacon had declared, a memorable slogan that was often repeated during the following centuries. For the scientific programme that he launched, knowledge meant not only power over nature, but also power over people — including aristocrats exploiting their workers, England ruling her […]
1 February, 2018
Andrew Mathews – Unlikely Alliances: Encounters between State Science, Nature Spirits, and Indigenous Industrial Forestry in Mexico, 1926-2008
Andrew S. Mathews, “Unlikely Alliances: Encounters between State Science, Nature Spirits, and Indigenous Industrial Forestry in Mexico, [...]
31 January, 2018
Kim Todd – Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
Kim Todd, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (Orlando: Harcourt, 2007). Notes 2 – “Conches, plump beetles, limp birds [...]
28 January, 2018
Andrew Cunningham and Katharine Park Comparative Interpretation of Vesalius’s De Fabrica Title-page
Andrew Cunningham, The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1997). Katharine [...]
14 November, 2017
Katharine Park – Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection || Shigehisa Kuriyama – “Muscularity and Identity” in Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Katharine Park, Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (New York: Zone Books, 2006). Shigehisa Kuriyama, “Muscularity [...]
12 November, 2017
Russel Barsch – Who Steals Indigenous Knowledge
Russel Lawrence Barsch, “Who Steals Indigenous Knowledge?” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law (April [...]
18 October, 2017
Vandana Shiva – Bioprospecting as Sophisticated Biopiracy
Vandana Shiva, “Bioprospecting as Sophisticated Biopiracy,” Signs 32, no. 2 (Winter 2007), 307-313. 307 – “Bioprospecting is a term that [...]
16 October, 2017
Eugene Hunn – Meeting of minds: how do we share our appreciation of traditional environmental knowledge?
Eugene Hunn, “Meeting of minds: how do we share our appreciation of traditional environmental knowledge?,”The Journal of the Royal [...]
16 October, 2017
Peter Barker – “Constructing Copernicus”
Peter Barker, “Constructing Copernicus,” Perspectives on Science 10, no. 2 (Summer 2002). Notes 208 – “This paper . . . examines Kepler’s [...]
25 September, 2017
Richard Sorabji – “Aristotle on Colour, Light, and Imperceptibles”
Richard Sorabji, “Aristotle on Colour, Light, and Imperceptibles,” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London [...]
8 September, 2017
