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Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. Made Modern...
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Holy 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,...
ISBN: 9780295745596
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Woke 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...
ISBN: 9780295744179
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Molecular 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...
ISBN: 9780295744100
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Gender 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...
ISBN: 9780295999210
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High
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...
ISBN: 9780295742328
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Queer 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...
ISBN: 9780295742588
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Reinventing 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....
ISBN: 9780295742182
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Risky 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...
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Network 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...
ISBN: 9780295741826
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Tracing 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,...
ISBN: 9780295741918
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Making 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,...
ISBN: 9780295741390
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The 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...
ISBN: 9780295993218
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The 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...
ISBN: 9780295998084
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Behind 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...
ISBN: 9780295995601
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The Medium Is the Monster
Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues...
ISBN: 9781771992244
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Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music
Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artificial Neural Networks
Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks...
ISBN: 9781771992206
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The 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...
ISBN: 9780295992419
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The 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....
ISBN: 9780295987507
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The 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...
ISBN: 9780295975146
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