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Volume 1, January 1, 2016
Volume 2, 2017
Volume 3, 2018
Volume 4, 2019
Volume 5:, 2020
Volume 6, 2021


BJHS Themes
Volume 1, January 1, 2016

            Jahnavi Phalkey and   
                       Tong Lam   Science of giants: China and India in
                                  the twentieth century  . . . . . . . . . 1--11
             Leon Antonio Rocha   How deep is love? The engagement with
                                  India in Joseph Needham's historiography
                                  of China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--41
                  Fa-Ti Fan and   
                    John Mathew   Negotiating natural history in
                                  transitional China and British India . . 43--59
                  Arunabh Ghosh   Accepting difference, seeking common
                                  ground: Sino--Indian statistical
                                  exchanges 1951--1959 . . . . . . . . . . 61--82
            Jahnavi Phalkey and   
                    Zuoyue Wang   Planning for science and technology in
                                  China and India  . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--113
                   Asif Siddiqi   Another global history of science:
                                  making space for India and China . . . . 115--143
             Madhumita Saha and   
               Sigrid Schmalzer   Green-revolution epistemologies in China
                                  and India: technocracy and revolution in
                                  the production of scientific knowledge
                                  and peasant identity . . . . . . . . . . 145--167
              Michael Lewis and   
              E. Elena Songster   Studying the snow leopard:
                                  reconceptualizing conservation across
                                  the China--India border  . . . . . . . . 169--198
                   Pin-Hsien Wu   Investigating nature within different
                                  discursive and ideological contexts:
                                  case studies of Chinese and Indian coal
                                  capitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--220
                Diganta Das and   
                       Tong Lam   High-tech utopianism: Chinese and Indian
                                  science parks in the neo-liberal turn    221--238
                  Kavita Philip   Speculative Histories: Photo essay . . . 239--248
             Anna Greenspan and   
                 Anil Menon and   
              Kavita Philip and   
            Jeffrey Wasserstrom   The future arrives earlier in Palo Alto
                                  (but when it's high noon there, it's
                                  already tomorrow in Asia): a
                                  conversation about writing science
                                  fiction and reimagining histories of
                                  science and technology . . . . . . . . . 249--266
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BJHS Themes
Volume 2, 2017

                    Amanda Rees   Animal agents? Historiography, theory
                                  and the history of science in the
                                  Anthropocene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
             Angela Cassidy and   
     Rachel Mason Dentinger and   
          Kathryn Schoefert and   
                  Abigail Woods   Animal roles and traces in the history
                                  of medicine, c. 1880--1980 . . . . . . . 11--33
                 Gregory Radick   Animal agency in the age of the Modern
                                  Synthesis: W. H. Thorpe's example  . . . 35--56
                 Michael Pettit   The great cat mutilation: sex, social
                                  movements and the utilitarian calculus
                                  in 1970s New York City . . . . . . . . . 57--78
                     Amy Nelson   What the dogs did: animal agency in the
                                  Soviet manned space flight programme . . 79--99
               Nicolas Langlitz   Synthetic primatology: what humans and
                                  chimpanzees do in a Japanese laboratory
                                  and the African field  . . . . . . . . . 101--125
                    Amanda Rees   Wildlife agencies: practice,
                                  intentionality and history in
                                  twentieth-century animal field studies   127--149
                 Karen R. Jones   Restor(y)ing the `fierce green fire':
                                  animal agency, wolf conservation and
                                  environmental memory in Yellowstone
                                  National Park  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--168
                  Jonathan Saha   Colonizing elephants: animal agency,
                                  undead capital and imperial science in
                                  British Burma  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--189
           Jennifer Daniels and   
                 Charles Mather   Conserving Atlantic salmon `after
                                  nature' on Newfoundland's Gander river   191--213
             Lewis Holloway and   
               Christopher Bear   Bovine and human becomings in histories
                                  of dairy technologies: robotic milking
                                  systems and remaking animal and human
                                  subjectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234
                    Karen Sayer   The `modern' management of rats: British
                                  agricultural science in farm and field
                                  during the twentieth century . . . . . . 235--263
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BJHS Themes
Volume 3, 2018

       Isabel Zilhão and   
            Kristian H. Nielsen   Worlds of science for children and young
                                  people, 1830--1991 . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
               Richard Somerset   Palaeontological pedagogues of the
                                  1830s: the prehistory of the `history of
                                  life' genre  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--42
              Gautam Chando Roy   Science for children in a colonial
                                  context: Bengali juvenile magazines,
                                  1883--1923 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--72
           Isabel Zilhão   Taking science to the countryside:
                                  fictionalizing the country through
                                  novels for young people in early
                                  twentieth-century Portugal . . . . . . . 73--103
 Bernardo Jefferson de Oliveira   Science in \booktitleThe Children's
                                  Encyclopedia and its appropriation in
                                  the twentieth century in Latin America   105--128
                Peter J. Bowler   \booktitleMeccano Magazine: boys' toys
                                  and the popularization of science in
                                  early twentieth-century Britain  . . . . 129--146
               Inês Gomes   Observation versus experimentation in
                                  natural-history teaching in Portuguese
                                  secondary schools: educational laws from
                                  1836 to 1933 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--165
            Kristian H. Nielsen   Ideas, politics and practices of
                                  integrated science teaching in the
                                  global Cold War  . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--189
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BJHS Themes
Volume 4, 2019

              Boris Jardine and   
                 Emma Kowal and   
                  Jenny Bangham   How collections end: objects, meaning
                                  and loss in laboratories and museums . . 1--27
                  Ricardo Roque   The blood that remains: card collections
                                  from the colonial anthropological
                                  missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--53
                     Emma Kowal   Spencer's double: the decolonial
                                  afterlife of a postcolonial museum prop  55--77
             Ann M. Kakaliouras   The repatriation of the Palaeoamericans:
                                  Kennewick Man/the Ancient One and the
                                  end of a non-Indian ancient North
                                  America  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--98
              David Skinner and   
              Matthias Wienroth   Was this an ending? The destruction of
                                  samples and deletion of records from the
                                  UK Police National DNA Database  . . . . 99--121
                  Jenny Bangham   Living collections: care and curation at
                                  \bionameDrosophila stock centres . . . . 123--147
               Helen Anne Curry   From bean collection to seed bank:
                                  transformations in heirloom vegetable
                                  conservation, 1970--1985 . . . . . . . . 149--167
                   Nick Hopwood   The tragedy of the emeritus and the
                                  fates of anatomical collections: Alfred
                                  Benninghoff's memoir of Ferdinand Count
                                  Spee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--194
Ana María Gómez López   On taphonomy: collages and collections
                                  at the Geiseltalmuseum . . . . . . . . . 195--214
                  Dahlia Porter   Catalogues for an entropic collection:
                                  losses, gains and disciplinary
                                  exhaustion in the Hunterian Museum,
                                  Glasgow  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--243
                  Boris Jardine   The museum in the lab: historical
                                  practice in the experimental sciences at
                                  Cambridge, 1874--1936  . . . . . . . . . 245--271
                James Delbourgo   Commentary: collect or die . . . . . . . 273--281
                  Jenny Reardon   Commentary: ends everlasting . . . . . . 283--291
                  Jenny Bangham   Living collections: care and curation at
                                  \bionameDrosophila stock centres ---
                                  Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
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BJHS Themes
Volume 5:, 2020

       Angela N. H. Creager and   
              Mathias Grote and   
                   Elaine Leong   Learning by the book: manuals and
                                  handbooks in the history of science  . . 1--13
                  Karine Chemla   Reading instructions of the past,
                                  classifying them, and reclassifying
                                  them: commentaries on the canon
                                  \booktitleThe Nine Chapters on
                                  Mathematical Procedures from the third
                                  to the thirteenth centuries  . . . . . . 15--37
                Matteo Martelli   Ancient handbooks and Graeco--Egyptian
                                  collections of alchemical recipes  . . . 39--55
           Jennifer M. Rampling   Reading alchemically: guides to
                                  `philosophical' practice in early modern
                                  England  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--74
                   Marta Hanson   From under the elbow to pointing to the
                                  palm: Chinese metaphors for learning
                                  medicine by the book (fourth--fourteenth
                                  centuries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--92
                   Elaine Leong   Learning medicine by the book: reading
                                  and writing surgical manuals in early
                                  modern London  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--110
                  Boris Jardine   The book as instrument: craft and
                                  technique in early modern practical
                                  mathematics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--129
                Federico Marcon   The `book' as fieldwork: `textual
                                  institutions' and nature knowledge in
                                  early modern Japan . . . . . . . . . . . 131--148
  Staffan Müller-Wille and   
              Giuditta Parolini   Punnett squares and hybrid crosses: how
                                  Mendelians learned their trade by the
                                  book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--165
             Anna-Maria Meister   Ernst Neufert's
                                  `\booktitleLebensgestaltungslehre':
                                  formatting life beyond the built . . . . 167--185
                  Mathias Grote   Total knowledge? Encyclopedic handbooks
                                  in the twentieth-century chemical and
                                  life sciences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--203
              Stephanie A. Dick   Coded conduct: making MACSYMA users and
                                  the automation of mathematics  . . . . . 205--224
           Angela N. H. Creager   Recipes for recombining DNA: A history
                                  of \booktitleMolecular Cloning: A
                                  Laboratory Manual  . . . . . . . . . . . 225--243
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BJHS Themes
Volume 6, 2021

       Erika Lorraine Milam and   
                     Suman Seth   Descent of Darwin: race, sex, and human
                                  nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
            Myrna Perez Sheldon   Sexual selection as race making  . . . . 9--23
                     Suman Seth   `Constitutions selection': Darwin, race
                                  and medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--43
                Marianne Sommer   The meaning of absence: the primate tree
                                  that did not make it into Darwin's
                                  \booktitleThe Descent of Man . . . . . . 45--61
         Projit Bihari Mukharji   Darwin's bulbuls: South Asian cultures
                                  of bird fighting and Darwin's theory of
                                  sexual selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
             Gregory Radick and   
                  Mark Steadman   Of lice and men: Charles Darwin, Henry
                                  Denny and the evidence for the human
                                  races as varieties or species  . . . . . 81--95
            Judith R. H. Kaplan   `Unravelling Babel': Mary LeCron Foster
                                  on the origins of language . . . . . . . 97--113
             Kimberly A. Hamlin   Darwin's bawdy: the popular, gendered
                                  and radical reception of the
                                  \booktitleDescent of Man in the US,
                                  1871--1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--131
           Erika Lorraine Milam   The evolution of Darwinian sexualities   133--155
                  Piers J. Hale   Charles Darwin, sexual selection and the
                                  evolution of other-regarding ethics  . . 157--177
                Nasser Zakariya   Evolutionary antagonisms and the
                                  progress of three categories of traits   179--200
                   Lijing Jiang   The late ascent of Darwin's
                                  \booktitleDescent: exploring human
                                  evolution and women's role for a new
                                  China, 1927--1965  . . . . . . . . . . . 201--220
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