This volume examines the ways in which science is influenced by culture. It highlights the misleading images that have distorted people's view of the history of

We often think of science as continuously advancing. In this collection of essays, five world-renowned writers explore obscure and neglected episodes in the his

Examines the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains in modern British medical research. This title is also available as Open Access.

The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the “Great Man” myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane Goodall. Wh

For the times when you’re driving past a lumpy, bumpy field and you wonder what made the lumps and bumps; for when you’re walking between two lines of grand