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

617. SCHMITZ, Rudolf. Geschichte der Pharmazie:
Band 2, Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart.
Edited by Christoph FRIEDRICH and Wolf-Dieter
MÜLLER-JAHNCKE. (xxiii + 1237 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Eschborn: Govi-Verlag Pharmazeutischer
Verlag, 2005. ISBN: 3774110271.
618. SNEADER, Walter. Drug Discovery: A History.
(viii + 468 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Hoboken, NJ: Wiley,
2005. ISBN: 0471899801.
Sweeping history of the discovery of medical compounds
from Neanderthal man to the present. Reviews: [ref. R867]
619. STUART, David C. Dangerous Garden: The
Quest for Plants to Change Our Lives. (208 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ.
Press, 2004. ISBN: 067401104X.
160. TECHNOLOGY IN GENERAL
620. BINGAMAN, Amy, Lise SANDERS, and Rebecca
ZORACH. (Eds.) Embodied Utopias: Gender,
Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis. Architext
Series. (xviii + 316 pp.; ill.; map; bibl.; index.)
London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 0415248132.
Contents (from OCLC): Amy BINGAMAN, Lise SANDERS,
and Rebecca ZORACH, “Embodied Utopia: Introduction”;
Thomas A. MARKUS, “Is There a Built Form for Non-
Patriarchal Utopias?”; Margaret E. FARRAR, “Making the
City Beautiful: Aesthetic Reform and the (Dis)placement
of Bodies”; Barbara HOOPER, “Urban Space, Modernity,
and Masculinist Desire: The Utopian Longings of Le Corbusier”;
Hazel HAHN, “Dystopia in Utopia: Exoticism and
Degeneration in Indochina, 1890-1940”; Sharon HAAR,
“At Home in Public: The Hull House Settlement and the
Study of the City”; Suzanne M. SPENCER-WOOD, “Utopian
Visions and Architectural Designs of Turn-of-the-Century
Social Settlements”; Despina STRATIGAKOS, “A Women’s
Berlin: How Female Patrons and Architects in Imperial
Germany Re-gendered the City”; Kelly QUINN, “Endeavours
and Expectations: Housing Washington’s Women”;
Brent STRINGFELLOW, “Personal City: Tysons Corner and
the Question of Identity”; Andrew WOOD, “Re-reading
Disney’s Celebration: Gendered Topography in a Heterotopian
Pleasure Garden”; Brian P. MCGRATH, “Bangkok
Simultopia”; Christa ERICKSON, “Networked Interventions:
Debugging the Electronic Frontier”; May JOSEPH, “Frugality
and the City: Hanoi Palimpsest”; Elizabeth WILSON,
“Against Utopia: The Romance of Indeterminate Spaces”;
Elizabeth GROSZ, “The Time of Architecture.” Reviews:
[ref. 213]
621. BRUUN, Henrik, and Janne HUKKINEN.
“Crossing Boundaries: An Integrative Framework
for Studying Technological Change.” Soc. Stud. Sci.
33 (2003): 95–116.
622. BUCHANAN, Brenda J. (Ed.) Gunpowder, Explosives
and the State: A Technological History.
(xxiii + 425 pp.; ill.; index.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2006. ISBN: 0754652599.
623. CARROLL, Patrick. “Honoring Thomas
Hughes, Appealing to Historians.” Soc. Stud. Sci.
35 (2005): 313–321.
Essay review of Michael Thad ALLEN and Gabrielle HECHT
(eds.), Technologies of Power (2001).
160. Technology in general 35
624. ELZINGA, Aant. “Making Science and Technology
Studies Relevant for Technology Policy–Gains
and Losses?” Soc. Stud. Sci. 34 (2004): 949–956.
Essay review of Knut SØRENSEN and Robin WILLIAMS
(eds.), Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy (2002).
625. EVANS, Harold, Gail BUCKLAND, and David
LEFER. They Made America: From the Steam Engine
to the Search Engine, Two Centuries of Innovators.
(496 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Little, Brown,
2004. ISBN: 0316277665.
Written in tandem with a PBS series.
626. GLENNIE, Paul, and Nigel THRIFT. “Revolutions
in the Times: Clocks and the Temporal
Structures of Everyday Life.” In LIVINGSTONE and
WITHERS [ref. 414], 160–198.
627. HILAIRE-PÉREZ, Liliane, and Anne-Francoise
GARCON. (Eds.) Les chemins de la nouveauté : innover,
inventer au regard de l’histoire. CTHS Histoire
numéro 9. (473 pp.; ill.) Paris: Editions du CTHS,
2003. ISBN: 2735505170.
Contents: Liliane HILAIRE-PÉREZ, “Pratiques inventives,
cheminements innovants, crédits et légitimations,” 9–38;
Dominique PESTRE, “Innovation technique, management
des hommes et politique : concevoir les missiles de la force
de frappe française, 1957–1962,” 41-48; Dominique MAS-
SOUNIE, “L’avocat du ‘bien public’ ou les enjeux politiques
et économiques de l’installation des pompes hydrauliques
dans la capitale àtravers les rapports du Maître général des
bâtiments, 1763–1789,” 49-58; Carlo Marco BELFANTI,
“Corporations et brevets : les deux faces du progrès technique
dans une économie pré-industrielle (Italie du nord,
XVI e –XVIII e siècles),” 59-76; Anne-Claire DÉRÉ, “Les
limites des privilèges : entre protection et concurrence, le
cas des soudières bretonnes (1777–1791),” 77-90; Catherine
LANOË, “L’invention du rouge au XVIII e siècle : cosmétique
populaire ou objet de luxe ?” 91-102; MARTIN [ref. 1905];
Keith SMITH and Kristine BRULAND, “Les transitions technologiques
à grande échelle dans l’histoire et dans la théorie,”
119-137; PASSERON [ref. 1756]; Pascal BRIOIST, “Savoirfaire
et innovations chez les serruriers d’Ancien Régime,”
153-165; Katie SCOTT, “Invention and Privilege in Early
Modern France : The Case of Colour,” 167-186; Natacha
COQUERY, “Mode, commerce, innovation : la boutique parisienne
au XVIII e siècle. Aperçu sur les stratégies de séduction
des marchands parisiens de luxe et de demi-luxe,” 187-206;
Christine MACLEOD, “L’invention héroïque et la première
historiographie de la révolution industrielle,” 207-222; J.
Patricio Sáiz GONZÁLES, “Patents, International Technology
Transfer and Spanish Industrial Dependence (1759–1878),”
223-245; B. Zorina KHAN, “The Economics of Copyrights
and Democracy,” 247-267; Beatrice VEYRASSAT, “Propriété
industrielle et dynamique de l’innovation. Inventeurs
et firmes dans l’industrie horlogère suisse de la fin du XIX e
siècle à la Seconde Guerre mondiale,” 269-282; MOHEBBI
[ref. 723]; Pamela O. LONG, “The Cultural Uses of Invention
in Early Modern Europe,” 293-311; John SMAIL, “Innovation
and Invention in the Yorkshire Wool Textile Industry :
A Miller’s Tale,” 313-330; Sylviane LLINARES, “Innovation
et mutation technique : la marine de guerre française (1750–
1850),” 331-342; Madeleine Pinault SØRENSEN, “Le dessin,
témoin de l’innovation technique,” 343-360; Valérie MAR-
CHAL, “L’INPI : mémoire et patrimoine de l’innovation,”
361-373; Bruno JACOMY, “Le musée des Arts et Métiers :
un musée de prototypes,” 375-383; Patrice BRET, “Genèse
et légitimation patrimoniale d’une invention : les archives