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Bad Dog
Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice
Fifty-plus years of media fearmongering coupled with targeted breed bans have produced what could be called “America’s Most Wanted” dog: the pit bull. However, at the turn of the twenty-first century, competing narratives began to...
ISBN: 9780295748023
more detailsThe Great Quake Debate
The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology
In the first half of the twentieth century, when seismology was still in in its infancy, renowned geologist Bailey Willis faced off with fellow high-profile scientist Robert T. Hill in a debate with life-or-death consequences...
ISBN: 9780295747361
more detailsHoly Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each...
ISBN: 9780295745596
more detailsMolecular Feminisms
Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/j163-3c90
“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy,...
ISBN: 9780295744100
more detailsWoke Gaming
Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice
From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production,...
ISBN: 9780295744179
more detailsGender before Birth
Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an “act of violence against women” and “unethical.” At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to...
ISBN: 9780295999210
more detailsQueer Feminist Science Studies
A Reader
Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here “queer”—or denaturalize and...
ISBN: 9780295742588
more detailsHigh
Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users
Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage our moods. A “drug-free America” seems to be...
ISBN: 9780295742328
more detailsNetwork Sovereignty
Building the Internet across Indian Country
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and...
ISBN: 9780295741826
more detailsReinventing Hoodia
Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global...
ISBN: 9780295742182
more detailsRisky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy
Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements—including the political economies of cinema;...
ISBN: 9780295742496
more detailsTracing Autism
Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.
Through...
ISBN: 9780295741918
more detailsMaking Climate Change History
Documents from Global Warming's Past
This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source...
ISBN: 9780295741390
more detailsThe Pulse of Modernism
Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to...
ISBN: 9780295993218
more detailsThe Orphan Tsunami of 1700
Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had...
ISBN: 9780295998084
more detailsBehind the Curve
Science and the Politics of Global Warming
In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded...
ISBN: 9780295995601
more detailsThe Clinic and Elsewhere
Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy
Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance...
ISBN: 9780295992419
more detailsThe Emergence of Genetic Rationality
Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920
The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed, it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But this mode of...
ISBN: 9780295987507
more detailsThe Essence of Chaos
Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball’s path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of...
ISBN: 9780295975146
more detailsLife as Surplus
Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era
Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda...
ISBN: 9780295987910
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