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Governmental Migration Research in Germany
Knowledge Production at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
This study sketches the contours and contradictions of governmental knowledge production on migration in Germany between policy relevance and scientific objectivity.
Strange Blood
The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond
A unique story of 19th century medical knowledge, ambition, and controversy – of crossing boundaries and challenging taboos.
Genealogy of Popular Science
From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
Every time has the science communication it deserves. Origins, continuities and transformations of »popular science« analyzed as a recurrent cultural practice.
Monika Ankele
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Benoît Majerus
(eds.)
Material Cultures of Psychiatry
Straitjackets, cribs and binding belts have shaped our ideas of psychiatry in the past. But what do we really know about these and other powerful psychiatric objects?
Stefan Krebs
/
Heike Weber
(eds.)
The Persistence of Technology
Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal
Maintenance and repair in modern industries and consumer societies: History up-to-date!
The Construction of Analogy-Based Research Programs
The Lock-and-Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry
By reconstructing the history of the lock-and-key analogy in fields of biochemistry and molecular biology, this book reveals new aspects of the mutual interactions between analogy usage, model building and research development.
Wires That Bind
Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854-1920
Telegraphy and railroads bound the Southwest to the United States in the nineteenth century. They forever redrew lines of race, culture and influence.
Nina Möllers
/
Karin Zachmann
(eds.)
Past and Present Energy Societies
How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures
Abundant, salutary, problematic – energy shapes history. The volume analyzes discourses of energy and their materialization into technical systems, media and consumer practice.
Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones
World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe
Anthropology between field research and fire trenches. This volume investigates the hardly recognized cooperation between anthropologists and the military during World War I. An enlightening insight into the dark history of a discipline.