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/SpontaneousGenerations

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 ‎