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Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations
This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic.
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Regeln. Eine kurze Geschichte
In ihrem reich bebilderten Buch zeichnet die Historikerin Lorraine Daston nach, wie sich Regeln in der westlichen Tradition seit der Antike entwickelt haben.
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The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered
The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing—such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument—become a gendered object?
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Science Diplomacy on Display: Mobile Atomic Exhibitions in the Cold War
Despite the increasing interest in science exhibitions, there has been hardly any work on mobile science exhibitions and their role within science diplomacy – a gap this thematic issue is meant to fill.
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In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions
Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Buddhism spread in the medieval period.
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Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century
This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset.
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Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate
In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did “the scientific community” come into existence, and why does it work?
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Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung 1989–2002: eine politische Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Mitchell G. Ash analysiert die Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung als Beispiel des Zusammenspiels von Wissenschaft und Politik als Ressourcen füreinander in politischen Umbruchzeiten.
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Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide.
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Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property
A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society
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Geld und Gewinn: zur Erweiterung monetär-ökonomischer Logiken
Die etablierten Wirtschaftswissenschaften übersetzen Gewinne jeglicher Art vollkommen selbstverständlich in monetäre Renten. Dabei weitet sich der Anwendungsbereich dieses Zugangs stetig aus, wie etwa Care-Arbeit und Umweltökonomik zeigen.
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30 Jahre Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: eine Chronik
Im April 2023 beging die Leibniz-Sozietät – gegründet 1993 als Leibniz-Sozietät e. V. und seit 2007 Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e. V. – ihr 30-jähriges Jubiläum. Diesem Jahrestag ist die vorliegende Chronik gewidmet, denn er bietet Anlass für eine Rückschau sowie eine Zusammenstellung erbrachter Leistungen.
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Making Animal Materials in Time
This special issue, “Making Animal Materials in Time,” delves into the history of animal materials used in craft and scientific endeavors since the eighteenth century.
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Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement
This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine.
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Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science & Politics, 1859–1955
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm.
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Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation
The experiment has long been seen as a test bed for theory, but in Split and Splice, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger makes the case, instead, for treating experimentation as a creative practice. His latest book provides an innovative look at the experimental protocols and connections that have made the life sciences so productive.
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Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues
Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism.
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Wissenschaft und Diplomatie: die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Feld der internationalen Politik (1945–2000)
Wissenschaftsdiplomatie gilt neuerdings als Hoffnungsträger in der Bewältigung der globalen Herausforderungen der internationalen Politik. Zugleich rückt das Zusammenspiel von Wissenschaft und Diplomatie während des Kalten Krieges in den Fokus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte.
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Der Traum von der Einheit der Wissenschaft: Verleihung des Gerda Henkel Preises 2020
In ihrer Preisrede anlässlich der Verleihung des Gerda Henkel Preises sprach die Wissenschaftshistorikerin Lorraine Daston über den »Traum von der Einheit der Wissenschaft«.
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