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799 p., XV, 237 p. Library Binding Hardcover.

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An excellent copy. - Contents: Iss. 1 ARTICLES jacob darwin HAMBLIN: The Navy?s ?Sophisticated? Pursuit of Science: Undersea Warfare, the Limits of Internationalism, and the Utility of Basic Research, 1945-1956 ANNE SECORD: Botany on a Plate: Pleasure and the Power of Pictures in Promoting Early Nineteenth-Century Scientific Knowledge / Iss. 2 ARTICLES AUDRA J. WOLFE: Germs in Space: Joshua Lederberg, Exobiology, and the Public Imagination, 1958-1964 shang-JEN Li: Natural History of Parasitic Disease: Patrick Manson?s Philosophical Method david kaiser: Nuclear Democracy: Political Engagement, Pedagogical Reform, and Particle Physics in Postwar America / Iss. 3 ARTICLES Joshua BLU BUHS: The Fire Ant Wars: Nature and Science in the Pesticide Controversies of the Late Twentieth Century Philippe Fontaine: Blood, Politics, and Social Science: Richard Titmuss and the Institute of Economic Affairs, 1957-1973 Katherine NEAL: Mathematics and Empire, Navigation and Exploration: Henry Briggs and the Northwest Passage Voyages of 1631 / Iss. 4 ARTICLES mark PARASCANDOLA: Uncertain Science and a Failure of Trust: The NIH Ra- dioepidemiologic Tables and Compensation for Radiation-Induced Cancer jiMiNA CANALES: Photogenic Venus: The ?Cinematographic Turn? and Its Alternatives in Nineteenth-Century France JUDY JOHNS SCHLOEGEL; henning SCHMIDGEN: General Physiology, Experimental Psychology, and Evolutionism: Unicellular Organisms as Objects of Psychophysiological Research, 1877?1918.