Volume 8 of *Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science,* has been published. The Editorial Board is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal's eighth issue, which features a Focused Discussion section devoted to the theme "Science and Technology Studies and Social Inequality." The journal is available via our website: http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGener... *TABLE OF CONTENTS* *FOCUSED DISCUSSION* STS and Social Inequality: Editor's Introduction Christine V. Wood, Simon N. Williams Studying Science and Social Inequalities: Resurgences and Divergences Steven Epstein Colorblind Science?: Perceptions of the Importance of Racial Diversity in Science Research Kellie Owens Technology and Social Inequality Caroll Pursell *ARTICLES* “What They Think of the Causes of So Much Suffering”: S. Weir Mitchell, John Kearsley Mitchell, and Ideas about Phantom Limb Pain in Late 19th c. America Daniel Goldberg Maxwellian Electrodynamics Genesis and Development: Intertheoretic Context Rinat Magdievich Nugayev *REVIEWS* Review: Nikolas Rose and Joelle Abi-Rached, Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind Riiko Bedford Review: Thomas R. Dunlap, In the Field, Among the Feathered Melissa Charenko Review: Cass R. Sunstein. Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas. Simon & Schuster, 2014. Ori Freiman A. Douglas Stone. Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian. Princeton University Press, 2013. Matthew Saul Leifer Roberts, Dorothy. 2011. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century. New York: The New Press. Alka Vaid Menon Review of Peoples' Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier Joan H. Robinson Review: Cold War Social Science Mike Thicke