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James P. Danky, Christine Pawley, and
Adam R. Nelson, Series Editors
July 2012
LC: 2011046758 Z
256 pp. 6 x 9 18 b/w illus.
Paper $34.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-28614-9
e-book $24.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-28613-2
Science / History / Health / Literature & Criticism
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
• SPRING 2012 •
Essays on the History of Science and the Culture
of Print
A wide-ranging exploration of the historical relationship
between print culture and the production of scientific
knowledge
Ever since the threads of seventeenth-century natural philosophy
began to coalesce into an understanding of the natural world, printed
artifacts such as laboratory notebooks, research journals, college text-
books, and popular paperbacks have been instrumental to the devel-
opment of what we think of today as “science.” But just as the history
of science involves more than recording discoveries, so too does the
study of print culture extend beyond the mere cataloguing of books.
In both disciplines, researchers attempt to comprehend how social
structures of power, reputation, and meaning permeate both the
written record and the intellectual scaffolding through which
scientific debate takes place.
Science in Print
brings together scholars from the fields of print
culture, environmental history, science and technology studies,
medical history, and library and information studies. This ambitious
volume paints a rich picture of those tools and techniques of printing,
publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices that grew
into modern science, from the days of the Royal Society of London in
the late 1600s to the beginning of the modern U.S. environmental
movement in the early 1960s.
is professor emerita of interdisciplinary
studies in human ecology at the University of Wiscon-
sin–Madison. She is author of
Mothers and Medicine:
A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890–1950
.
is professor in the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of
Library and Information Studies at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of
Closed
Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital
Convergence of Text with Television.
is professor in the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison and editor of the
Encyclopedia of American Journalism.
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P
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Published June 2010
LC: 2009040638 P 234 pp 6 x 9 7 b/w illus., 1 map
ISBN 978-0-299-23614-4 Paper $29.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-23613-7 e-book $19.95 s
“An invigorating display of the assets that
a consideration of print culture can bring.
Provides vivid, realistic, and provocative
readings of scientific concepts and actors
that are otherwise difficult to come by.”
—Katherine Pandora, University of Oklahoma
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