Search Results - "Science in context"

Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926-1975 by Hyun, Jaehwan

“…After World War II, blood groups became a symbol of anti-racial science. This paper aims to shed new light on the post-WWII history of blood groups and race,…”
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Newton, the sensorium of God, and the cause of gravity by Henry, John

“…It is argued that the sensorium of God was introduced into the Quaestiones added to the end of Newton's Optice (1706) as a way of answering objections that…”
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Rendering Inuit cancer "visible": Geography, pathology, and nosology in Arctic cancer research by Fraser, Jennifer

“…In August of 1977, Australian pathologist David W. Buntine delivered a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia in…”
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Useful charlatans: Giovanni Succi and Stefano Merlatti's fasting contest in Paris, 1886 by Nieto-Galan, Agustí

“…This paper analyzes the public fasts of two Italian "hunger artists," Giovanni Succi and Stefano Merlatti, in Paris in 1886, and their ability to forego eating…”
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Time, trauma, and the brain: How suicide came to have no significant precipitating event by Lloyd, Stephanie, Larivée, Alexandre

“…In this article, we trace shifting narratives of trauma within psychiatric, neuroscience, and environmental epigenetics research. We argue that two…”
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"Please, come in." Being a charlatan, or the question of trustworthy knowledge by Podgorny, Irina, Gethmann, Daniel

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Between learned and popular culture: A world of syncretism and acculturation by Richard, Nathalie

“…The world of charlatans is a world of constantly shifting borders and redefinitions, a world of crossed lines and pushed boundaries. Can one even speak of "the…”
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The Local versus the Global in the history of relativity: The case of Belgium by Ten Hagen, Sjang L

“…This article contributes to a global history of relativity, by exploring how Einstein's theory was appropriated in Belgium. This may sound like a contradiction…”
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Charlatan epistemology: As illustrated by a study of wonder-working in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic by Vermeir, Koen

“…This article highlights the epistemic concerns that have permeated the historical discourse around charlatanism. In it, I study the term "charlatan" as a…”
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Becoming Eusapia: The rise of the "Diva of Scientists" by Paolo de Ceglia, Francesco, Leporiere, Lorenzo

“…Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918) is remembered as one of the most famous mediums in the history of spiritualism. Renowned scientists attended her séances in…”
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A democratic program for healing: The Raspail domestic medicine method in 1840s France by Guillemain, Hervé

“…Raspail's domestic medicine method, popularized in 1840s France, has similarities with the practices of nineteenth century non-academic healers. His mass…”
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Brazilian political scientists and the Cold War: Soviet hearts, North-American minds (1966-1988) by Rodrigues, Lidiane Soares

“…The process of institutionalization of Political Science in Brazil was conditioned by the country's position in the geopolitical scenario proper to the Cold…”
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Levels of communication: The talking horse experiments by Gethmann, Daniel

“…In the early twentieth century, counting and speaking horses, like the famous Clever Hans or the "Horses of Elberfeld," became widely debated subjects in…”
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The "Controversial Cundurango Cure": Medical professionalization and the global circulation of drugs by Sevilla, Elisa, Sevilla, Ana

“…This article examines the medical and political discussions regarding a controversial medicinal bark from Ecuador - cundurango - that was actively sponsored by…”
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The effects of publishing processes on scientific thought: Typography and typology in prehistoric archaeology (1950s-1990s) by Plutniak, Sébastien

“…In the last decades, many changes have occurred in scientific publishing, including online publication, data repositories, file formats and standards. The role…”
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Why they shared: recovering early arguments for sharing social scientific data by Hauptmann, Emily

“…Most social scientists today think of data sharing as an ethical imperative essential to making social science more transparent, verifiable, and replicable…”
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Changing conceptions of mathematics and infinity in Giordano Bruno's vernacular and Latin works by Rossini, Paolo

“…The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of Giordano Bruno's conception of mathematics. Specifically, it intends to highlight two aspects of this…”
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Historicizing the comparative survey of freedom: tracing the social trajectory of an influential indicator by Zerndt, Emily

“…The Comparative Survey of Freedom, first published by Freedom House in 1973, is now the most widely used indicator of democracy by both academics and the U.S…”
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The uses of trauma in experiment: Traumatic stress and the history of experimental neurosis, c. 1925-1975 by Koch, Ulrich

“…The article retraces the shifting conceptualizations of psychological trauma in experimental psychopathological research in the middle decades of the twentieth…”
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Dictatorship, transition, and the forging of political science in Uruguay by Ravecca, Paulo

“…The study examines the trajectory of Uruguayan Political Science (PS) from a critical theory perspective. Concretely, the article focuses on PS' institutional…”
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