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

Prof. Wei Xincheng.” [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Zhongguo Keji Shiliao 25 (2004): 262–278.
Discusses how political changes affected scientists during the
Cultural Revolution.
375-120. EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
3539. BARTH, Kai-Henrik. “The Politics of Seismology:
Nuclear Testing, Arms Control, and the
Transformation of a Discipline.” Special Issue: Earth
Sciences in the Cold War [ref. 3483]. Soc. Stud. Sci.
33 (2003): 743–781.
3540. CUSHMAN, Gregory T. “Choosing between
Centers of Action: Instrument Buoys, El Niño, and
Scientific Internationalism in the Pacific, 1957–
1982.” In ROZWADOWSKI and VAN KEUREN
[ref. 402], 133–182.
3541. DANSGAARD, Willi. Frozen Annals: Greenland
Ice Sheet Research. (122 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.)
Odder, Denmark: Narayana Press, 2004. ISBN:
8799007800.
On ice core research in the second half of the 20th century.
Reviews: [ref. R204]
3542. DOEL, Ronald E. “Constituting the Postwar
Earth Sciences: The Military’s Influence on the Environmental
Sciences in the USA after 1945.” Special
Issue: Earth Sciences in the Cold War [ref. 3483].
Soc. Stud. Sci. 33 (2003): 635–666.
3543. DUTRO, J. Thomas, Jr. “A National Research
Laboratory in the Late 20th Century: U.S. Geological
Survey’s Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch as a
Case Study.” In LEVITON and ALDRICH [ref. 421],
177–184.
3544. JANKOVIC, Vladimir. “Science Migrations:
Mesoscale Weather Prediction from Belgrade to
Washington, 1970–2000.” Soc. Stud. Sci. 34 (2004):
45–75.
3545. KEUREN, David K. van. “Breaking New
Ground: The Origins of Scientific Ocean Drilling.”
In ROZWADOWSKI and VAN KEUREN [ref. 402],
183–210.
3546. LAHSEN, Myanna. “Seductive Simulations?
Uncertainty Distribution around Climate Models.”
Soc. Stud. Sci. 35 (2005): 895–922.
3547. MONTSERRAT, Liese, and Pere SANTANACH.
(Eds.) Cinquenta anys de geologia a la Universitat
de Barcelona. (284 pp.) Barcelona: Universitat de
Barcelona, 2003. ISBN: B372262003.
3548. ORESKES, Naomi. “A Context of Motivation:
US Navy Oceanographic Research and the Discovery
of Sea-Floor Hydrothermal Vents.” Special Issue:
Earth Sciences in the Cold War [ref. 3483]. Soc. Stud.
Sci. 33 (2003): 697–742.
3549. RAINGER, Ronald. “ ‘A Wonderful Oceanographic
Tool’: The Atomic Bomb, Radioactivity and
the Development of American Oceanography.” In
ROZWADOWSKI and VAN KEUREN [ref. 402], 93–
131.
3550. ROZWADOWSKI, Helen M. “Engineering,
Imagination, and Industry: Scripps Island and
Dreams for Ocean Science in the 1960s.” In
ROZWADOWSKI and VAN KEUREN [ref. 402], 315–
353.
3551. TOCHINAI Fumihiko. “ ‘Historicity Controversies’
in Japanese Geological Community after
375. Twentieth century after 1950 161
World War II—Was Mitsuo Hunahashi a Man of
‘Historicism’?” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 41 (2002): 65–74.
On methodology in the geological sciences in Japan.
3552. TOMARI Jiro. “Historicism vs. Actualism—
Geology in Japan after World War II.” [Translated
title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 44
(2005): 129–138.
375-121. GEOGRAPHY, CARTOGRAPHY, AND
EXPLORATION
3553. FISCHER, Irene K. Geodesy? What’s That?
My Personal Involvement in the Age-Old Quest for
the Size and Shape of the Earth, with a Running Commentary
on Life in a Government Research Office.
(xx + 376 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.) New York:
iUniverse, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 0595363997.
3554. HARVEY, P. D. A. “The Vinland Map, R.A.
Skelton, and Josef Fischer.” Imago Mundi 58 (2006):
95–99.
Essay review of Kirsten A. SEAVER, Maps, Myths, and Men
(2004).
3555. MCGRATH, Gerald, and L. M. SEBERT. (Eds.)
Mapping a Northern Land: The Survey of Canada,
1947–1994. (x + 668 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.)
Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 1999. ISBN:
0773516891.
3556. NIELSEN, Kristian Hvidtfelt. “In Search of the
Sea Monster.” Endeavour 30 (2006): 36–40.
On the use of the sea monster to attract funding and support
for the Danish Galathea Deep Sea Expedition of 1950–1952.
375-123. ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCES
3557. ALLEN, Barbara L. “Shifting Boundary Work:
Issues and Tensions in Environmental Health Science
in the Case of Grand Bois, Louisiana.” Special issue
on Health, the Environment and Social Movements
[ref. 2678]. Sci. Cult. 13 (2004): 429–448.
3558. ALLEN, Barbara L. Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens
and Experts in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor Disputes.
Urban and Industrial Environments. (xiii + 211
pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 2003. ISBN: 0262511347.
Reviews: [ref. 3010]
3559. BURNETT, J. Alexander. A Passion for
Wildlife: The History of the Canadian Wildlife Service.
(xiii + 331 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Vancouver:
Univ. of British Columbia Press, 2003. ISBN:
0774809604.
Reviews: [ref. 426]
3560. CZECH, Brian, and Paul R. KRAUSMAN. The
Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology
and Public Policy. (xvii + 212 pp.; bibl.; index.)
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN:
0801865042.
3561. DAVIS, Devra. When Smoke Ran Like Water:
Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle
against Pollution. (xx + 316 pp.; ill.) New York, NY:
Basic Books, 2004. ISBN: 0465015220.
Reviews: [ref. R217]
3562. DAVIS, Frederick R. “Saving Sea Turtles:
The Evolution of the IUCN Marine Turtles Group.”
Endeavour 29 (2005): 114–118.