Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

2712. FRAYLING, Christopher. Mad, Bad and Dangerous?
The Scientist and the Cinema. (239 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press,
2005. ISBN: 1861892551.
2713. MASSARANI, Luisa, and Ildeu de Castro
MOREIRA. “Miguel Ozorio de Almeida e a
vulgarização do saber.” Translated title: [Miguel
Ozorio de Almeida and the vulgarization of knowledge.]
In Portuguese. Special section on Miguel
Ozório de Almelda [ref. 65]. Manguinhos 11 (2004):
501–513.
2714. SHAW, Debra Benita. “Aliens and Imperialism.”
Sci. Cult. 12 (2003): 257–262.
Essay review of VIETH [ref. 2715].
2715. VIETH, Errol. Screening Science: Contexts,
Texts, and Science in Fifties Science Fiction Film.
(xix + 263 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow Press, 2001. ISBN: 0810840235.
Reviews: [ref. 2714]
370-26. SCIENCE AND RACE; SCIENCE AND
ETHNICITY
2716. FARBER, Paul. “Race-Mixing and Science in
the United States.” Endeavour 27 (2003): 166–170.
On the use of science to oppose racism and attitudes against
race-mixing.
2717. ISRAEL, Giorgio. “Science and the Jewish
Question in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Italy
and What It Shows.” Aleph 4 (2004): 191–261.
Focuses on the racialist policies developed in Italy in the
1930s and their ramifications for Italian science throughout
the century.
2718. KEYES, Charles. “Presidential Address: ‘The
Peoples of Asia’—Science and Politics in the Classification
of Ethnic Groups in Thailand, China, and
Vietnam.” J. Asian Stud. 61 (2002): 1163–1203.
Focus is on 20th century, but some discussion of 19th century
origins of scientific racial classifications.
2719. NEUBAUER, Alfred. “ ‘You, a man of high
intelligence...’ Über den Antisemitismus des Alfred
Stock.” In KANT and VOGT [ref. 17], 277–287.
2720. SCHAFFER, Gavin. “ ‘Like a baby with a box
of matches’: British Scientists and the Concept of
‘race’ in the Inter-War Period.” Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 38
(2005): 307–324.
2721. SCHAFFER, Gavin. “Scientific ‘Race’ Thinking
and Migration: Blacks and Jews in Britain, 1918–
1962.” Diss. Abstr. Int. C 65 (2004): 629.
Dissertation at University of Southampton (United Kingdom),
2003.
2722. SEAY, Cameron W. “Intelligence Assessment
of the American Negro, 1913–1945: A Socio-Cultural
Recapitulation.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/03 (2005): 895.
Dissertation at Georgia State University, 2004. Adviser:
Thompson, Dennis. UMI pub. no. 3166986. 201 pp.
370-27. SCIENCE AND GENDER
2723. BRIGGS, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race,
Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.
(xi + 278 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 2002. ISBN: 0520222555.
Reviews: [ref. R99]
2724. FARA, Patricia. “Curicatures.” Endeavour 28
(2004): 101–103.
370. Twentieth century 127
On caricatures of Marie Curie and their relevance in understanding
stereotypes of male and female roles in science.
2725. FORTH, Christopher E. “Moral Contagion and
the Will: The Crisis of Masculinity in fin-de-siècle
France.” In BASHFORD and HOOKER [ref. 539],
61–75.
2726. JACK, Jordynn Marguerite. “Rhetorics of
Time: Women’s Role in Wartime Science, 1939–
1945.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/04 (2005): 1343.
Dissertation at the Pennsylvania State University, 2005.
Adviser: Glenn, Cheryl. UMI pub. no. 3172978. 264 pp.
2727. KNIGHT, Lora Lea. “Guardians of the Race:
Scientific Eugenics and the Woman Question in Germany
and the United States, 1900–1945.” Diss. Abstr.
Int. A 65/11 (2005): 4308.
Dissertation at the University of Utah, 2004. Adviser:
Smelser, Ronald M. UMI pub. no. 3152629. 289 pp.
2728. LINDQUIST, Malinda Alaine. “The Gender
of Racial Science: Modern Black Manhood and
Its Making, 1890–2000.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/01
(2004): 267.
Dissertation at Princeton University, 2004. Advisor: Painter,
Nell Irvin. Pub. no. AAT 3120426. 409 pp.
2729. SLADE, Joseph W. “Eroticism and Technological
Regression: The Stag Film.” Hist. & Tech. 22
(2006): 27–52.
370-28. SCIENCE AND RELIGION
2730. ANDERSON, Clifford Blake. “The Crisis of
Theological Science: A Contextual Study of the
Development of Karl Barth’s Concept of Theology as
Science from 1901 to 1923.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/07
(2006): 2611.
Dissertation at Princeton Theological Seminary, 2005. Adviser:
van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel. UMI pub. no. 3184349.
567 pp.
2731. DAVIS, Edward B. “Science and Religious
Fundamentalism in the 1920s: Religious Pamphlets
by Leading Scientists of the Scopes Era Provide
Insight into Public Debates about Science and Religion.”
Amer. Scient. 93 (2005): 253–260.
2732. HAYWARD, Rhodri. “Demonology, Neurology,
and Medicine in Edwardian Britain.” Bull. Hist.
Med. 78 (2004): 37–58.
An examination of early twentieth-century demonological
literature from Fundamentalists and Pentecostalists reveals
sophisticated models of normal and pathological in spiritual
experience. (from the abstract)
2733. LÖHR, Gebhard. “Silvesterbesinnung und
Weihnachtsartikel. Jahresendzeitreflexionen großer
Physiker des 20. Jahrhunderts.” Ber. Wissenschaftsgesch.
28 (2005): 305–320.
On the understanding of the relationship between science
and Christian faith by Max Planck and Pascual Jordan as
discerned through a reading of their discussion of time.
2734. PORTER, Jennifer E. “The Spirit(s) of Science:
Paradoxical Positivism as Religious Discourse among
Spiritualists.” Sci. Cult. 14 (2005): 1–21.
2735. SINGH, Rajinder. Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman’s
Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Science
and Religion Series (Bangalore Forum for Science
and Religion), 3. (x + 383 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2005. ISBN:
8186861734.