Bill Clancey’s great new book explores the nature of exploration itself, in the context of a rich ethnographic study of the scientists and engineers of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions. It was a pleasure to talk with him, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading Working on Mars: An Interview
Marga Vicedo’s new book explores the emergence of the science of children’s emotional needs in the twentieth century, contextualizing the work of British psychoanalyst and psychiatrist John Bowlby (1907-1990) within a broader history of scientific studies of human and animal behavior. She was kind enough to talk with me about it, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Nature and Nurture of Love: An Interview
Adam Shapiro recently visited UBC and generously made time to talk with me about his new book, a careful study that looks beyond the rubrics of “science” and “religion” to understand how the Scopes trial became such an important event in the histories of both. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Trying Biology: An Interview
I recently spoke with Michael Ruse about his fascinating new history of the Gaia Hypothesis in the context of the transformations of professional and public engagements with science and technology in the 1960s. It was a pleasure, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Gaia Hypothesis: An Interview
I had the great pleasure of talking with Sienna Craig about her wonderful new book on Tibetan medical practices in the modern world. It’s an inspiring and beautifully written ethnography, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Healing Elements: An Interview
Aaron S. Moore and I recently talked about his new book on technology, empire, and Japan’s wartime era. It’s a fascinating study, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Constructing East Asia: An Interview
Henrietta Harrison and I recently talked about her beautiful new study of global Christianity, Chinese history, storytelling, and the history of a single town in Shanxi. It was a pleasure, and you can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Missionary’s Curse: An Interview
John DiMoia spoke with me from Singapore about his new book on biomedicine, bodies, and the nation in South Korea since the last half of the 20th century. It was a pleasure, and you can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Reconstructing Bodies: An Interview
I spoke with Louise Young recently about her new book on urban life and provincial cities in interwar Japan. It’s a wonderful book, and you can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Beyond the Metropolis: An Interview
Fabian Drixler and I recently spoke about his wonderful new book on the transformations of infanticide, population, and society in Japan from the late seventeenth century through the twentieth century. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Mabiki: An Interview
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