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