Londa Schiebinger is John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University. She is the author of The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science; Has Feminism Changed Science?; Nature”s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science; and Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Claudia Swan is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University and founding Director of the Program in the Study of Imagination. She is the author of The Clutius Botanical Watercolor: Plants and Flowers of the Renaissance and Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629).
7 Ebooks door Londa Schiebinger
Londa Schiebinger & Claudia Swan: Colonial Botany
In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe’s national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies o …
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Londa Schiebinger: Secret Cures of Slaves
In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to hea …
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€25.99
Paola Govoni & Zelda Alice Franceschi: Writing about Lives in Science
Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context …
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€55.00
Julika Funk & Elke Gramespacher: Dual Career Couples an Hochschulen
Academia-Life-Balance? Doppelkarrierepaare in der Wissenschaft Wie können Doppelkarrierepaare im Hochschul- und Wissenschaftssystem unterstützt werden und welche Problemfelder ergeben sich in diesem …
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€15.99
Ingrid Bauer & Christa Hämmerle: Politik – Theorie – Erfahrung
Dieser Band versammelt Gespräche, die in den 30 Jahren des Bestehens von ‘L’Homme. Z. F. G.’ mit namhaften Akteur*innen der feministischen Geschichtswissenschaft geführt wurden. Es werden Feminismen …
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€30.00
Martin Carrier & Janet A. Kourany: Science and the Production of Ignorance
An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance-both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally.We may think of science as our foremos …
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€115.81
Londa Schiebinger: Plants and Empire
Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored …
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€117.03