Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
About the Book Series
Studies in the History of Science Technology and Medicine aims to stimulate research in the field, concentrating on the twentieth century. It seeks to contribute to our understanding of science, technology and medicine as they are embedded in society, exploring the links between the subjects on the one hand, and the cultural, economic, political and institutional contexts of their genesis and development on the other. Within this framework, and while not favouring any particular methodological approach, the series welcomes studies which examine relations between science, technology, medicine and society in new ways, e.g. the social construction of technologies, large technical systems.
Newton and Newtonianism: Critical Perspectives on a Global Legacy
1st Edition
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By Derya Gurses Tarbuck
April 06, 2027
Isaac Newton's influence on the eighteenth century is one of the great set pieces of intellectual history, usually told as a story of steady conquest. Newton and Newtonianism: Critical Perspectives on a Global Legacy complicates that picture. Bringing together previously unpublished research, the ...
Farming, Psychiatry and Rural Society: Asylum and Hospital Farms, England, 1845–1955
1st Edition
By Sarah Holland
February 22, 2027
This book is about the history of farming, psychiatry and rural society, which were closely intertwined during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The complex inter-relationships between them are central to understanding psychiatric institutions, the countryside, and the people who lived and ...
Nuclear Power in Britain and Germany: Culture, Emotions, and Rationality: Splitting Societies 1956—1989. Volume One
1st Edition
By Christian Götter
October 15, 2026
Split into two volumes, volume 1 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants’ host communities in Britain and Germany from the 1950s to the late 1980s. Based upon a ...
Nuclear Power in Britain and Germany: Trust, Democracy, and Futures: Splitting Societies 1956—1989. Volume Two
1st Edition
By Christian Götter
October 15, 2026
Split into two volumes, volume 2 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants’ host communities in Britain and Germany from the 1950s to the late 1980s. Based upon a ...
Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires: On the Quest of Learning Places
1st Edition
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By Alice Santiago Faria, Renata Malcher de Araujo, Margarida Tavares da Conceição
October 15, 2026
This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices. “Learning Places” is an expression that intends to ...
On the Path to the Fifth Industrial Revolution
1st Edition
By Rolando Herrero
August 09, 2026
This book explores the technological and societal evolution of industrial revolutions, from mechanization to digitalization, with a focus on the Fourth and emerging Fifth Industrial Revolutions. It blends historical context with cutting-edge theory to explain how Cyber-Physical Systems (powered by ...
Spaces of Inquiry: Making Science and Technology in the Modern World
1st Edition
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By Amy Sue Bix, Penelope K. Hardy, Bruce J. Hunt, Scott Gabriel Knowles
August 06, 2026
This book traces the historical development of key sites of knowledge creation in science and technology and the robust traditions of scholarship around their origins, exploring commonalities, divergences, and transnational features of knowledge-making cultures from the 18th century to the present....
Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020: A Beard to Govern
1st Edition
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By Grégory Dufaud, Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin
July 19, 2026
This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences, and government/governance. Situated at the crossroad of women and gender studies, science and technology studies, and political sociology, this volume shows the ever‑accumulating gendered mechanisms that have ...
The Hexagon Club and British Neurology between the Wars
1st Edition
By Alastair Compston
July 16, 2026
In 1930, George Riddoch, Charles Symonds, Russell Brain, Hugh Cairns, Macdonald Critchley, and Derek Denny-Brown formed the Hexagon Club with the aim of discussing over dinner developments in medical and surgical neurology. Over the next 10 years, they met on 32 occasions, sometimes with guests, ...
Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée
1st Edition
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By Gabriele Balbi, Roberto Leggero
December 25, 2025
This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée. Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields explore transversal and trans-temporal issues of...
Earth-Knowledge: History of Earth Sciences as Histories of Knowledge?
1st Edition
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By Norman Henniges, Johannes Mattes, Marianne Klemun
December 02, 2025
Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences. ...
Science, Politics, and the Anthropocene Working Group: What was the Anthropocene?
1st Edition
By Alexander Damianos
November 02, 2025
Between 2009 and 2024, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), an interdisciplinary team of geologists, archaeologists, Earth systems scientists, historians of science, and one lawyer, sought to formalise the Anthropocene as a formal unit of the Geologic Time Scale. Science, Politics, and the ...