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The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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Testing Chemicals and Validating Tests: Regulatory Practices and Politics
From the 1960s to the 1980s, cancer was regarded by many scientists and government agencies as an environmental disease, one that could be controlled
Concepts as Technologies: On the Use of Concepts in Biomedical Practice
Concepts have often been described as or in analogy with technologies. Expressions such as technical term, term of art, conceptual tools, or, more rec
The Chinese Past (and Future?) of Natural Sciences (in German)
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Die chinesische Vergangenheit (und Zukunft?) der Naturwissenschaften
MehrOptical Cultures of Fibers and Viruses, 1916–1984
The visualization and imagination of biological structures at sub-microscopic scales is one of the defining features of modern biology. Our sense of t
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The Body of Animals
Animals have been central to humans in their attempts to understand their world and in revealing the secrets of nature. The theme "The Body of Animals
Nature and Nation: Documentation and the Practice of Natural History at the Australian Museum, 1850-1890
From the earliest years of the Australian colony of New South Wales, natural history served as a vital lens and organising principle for colonists' en
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Vegetable · Animal · Transformation
“Vegetable · Animal · Transformation” examines a complex of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century strategies that engaged chemistry, biology, and d
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Breeding Against Extinction: Knowledges and Practices of Species Conservation in Interwar Poland
Despite numerous episodes of captive reproduction for display and acclimatization purposes, systematic breeding for species conservation became the ce