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Toxic Histories

Poison and Pollution in Modern India
David Arnold
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Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poison and pollution to colonial governance, scientific authority and public anxiety in India between the 1830s and 1950s. Against the background of India's 'poison culture' and periodic 'poison panics', David Arnold considers why many familiar substances came to be regarded under colonialism as dangerous poisons. As well as the criminal uses of poison, Toxic Histories shows how European and Indian scientists were instrumental in creating a distinctive system of forensic toxicology and medical jurisprudence designed for Indian needs and conditions, and how local, as well as universal, poison knowledge could serve constructive scientific and medical purposes. Arnold reflects on how the 'fear of a poisoned world' spilt over into concerns about contamination and pollution, giving ideas of toxicity a wider social and political significance that has continued into India's postcolonial era.

BJH volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
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James Sumner, Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xviii + 295. ISBN 978-1-84893-423-8. £60.00 (hardback).
Alexi Baker
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Catelijne Coopmans, Janet Vertesi, Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar (eds.), Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 366. ISBN 978-0-262-52538-1. £24.95 (paperback).
Melissa Lo
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David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden (eds.), Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 367. ISBN: 978-1580464765. $125.00 (hardback).
Neeraja Sankaran
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John P. DiMoia, Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 280. ISBN 978-0-8047-8411-5. $45.00 (hardback).
Victoria Lee
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William E. Burns, The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-0-19998-933-1. £16.99 (paperback).
James Poskett
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Naomi Oreskes and John Krige (eds.), Science and Technology in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. 464. ISBN 978-0-2625-2653-1. £25.95 (paperback).
Jon Agar
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Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall, Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 485. ISBN 978-0-691-14905-9. £34.95 (hardback).
Christopher Hollings
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Brian Gee (ed. Anita McConnell and A.D. Morrison-Low), Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 392. ISBN 978-1-4094-6643-7. £85.00 (hardback).
Richard Dunn
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Robert J. Richards, Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 269. ISBN 978-0-226-05893-1. $27.50 (paperback).
John Z. Langrish
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Ruth Oldenziel and Mikael Hård, Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013. Pp. 440. IBSN 978-0-230-30801-5. £65.00 (hardback).
Coreen McGuire
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Nicolas Rasmussen, Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-1340-2. $35.00 (hardback). - Hallam Stevens, Life out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-08020-8. $30.00 (paperback).
Thomas P. Weber
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Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O'Connor (eds.), Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 239. ISBN 978-1-84893-362-0. £60.00 (hardback).
Courtney J. Salvey
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Ben Russell, James Watt: Making the World Anew. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-78023-375-8. £17.95 (hardback).
Patricia Fara
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Ian Hacking, Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 290. ISBN 978-1-107-65815-8. £17.99 (paperback).
Michael J. Barany
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Angela N.H. Creager, Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 489. ISBN 978-0-226-01780-8. £31.50 (hardback).
Mauro Capocci
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Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman and Richard England (eds.), The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880: A Critical Edition. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv + 1,288. ISBN 978-0-19-964303-5. £320.00 (hardback).
Gowan Dawson
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BJH volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

James Sumner, Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xviii + 295. ISBN 978-1-84893-423-8. £60.00 (hardback).

Catelijne Coopmans, Janet Vertesi, Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar (eds.), Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 366. ISBN 978-0-262-52538-1. £24.95 (paperback).

David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden (eds.), Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 367. ISBN: 978-1580464765. $125.00 (hardback).

John P. DiMoia, Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 280. ISBN 978-0-8047-8411-5. $45.00 (hardback).

William E. Burns, The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-0-19998-933-1. £16.99 (paperback).

Naomi Oreskes and John Krige (eds.), Science and Technology in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. 464. ISBN 978-0-2625-2653-1. £25.95 (paperback).

Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall, Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 485. ISBN 978-0-691-14905-9. £34.95 (hardback).

Brian Gee (ed. Anita McConnell and A.D. Morrison-Low), Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 392. ISBN 978-1-4094-6643-7. £85.00 (hardback).

Robert J. Richards, Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 269. ISBN 978-0-226-05893-1. $27.50 (paperback).

Ruth Oldenziel and Mikael Hård, Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013. Pp. 440. IBSN 978-0-230-30801-5. £65.00 (hardback).

Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O'Connor (eds.), Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 239. ISBN 978-1-84893-362-0. £60.00 (hardback).

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Index of authors

Ben Russell, James Watt: Making the World Anew. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-78023-375-8. £17.95 (hardback).

Ian Hacking, Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 290. ISBN 978-1-107-65815-8. £17.99 (paperback).

Angela N.H. Creager, Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 489. ISBN 978-0-226-01780-8. £31.50 (hardback).

Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman and Richard England (eds.), The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880: A Critical Edition. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv + 1,288. ISBN 978-0-19-964303-5. £320.00 (hardback).

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