I recently spoke with Kathleen Vogel about her really excellent new book that brings together a study of historical and contemporary analyses of US bioweapons threats with analytical tools from the social studies of science. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: An Interview
Matt Wisnioski and I recently spoke about his great new book on the myriad ways that engineers navigated new landscapes of technology and its discontents in 1960s America. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Engineers for Change: An Interview
Deborah Coen and I recently talked about her fascinating new book on earthquakes, observation, and the science of disaster in the 19th and 20th centuries. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Earthquake Observers: An Interview
Joel Isaac and I recently talked about his new book on Kuhn, the human sciences, and the “interstitial academy.” You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Working Knowledge: An Interview
Michel Gordin and I recently talked about his new book on Immanuel Velikovsky, the “first grand wizard of the Universal Order of Mass Pseudo-Scholarship,” and science at the margins in Cold War America. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Pseudo-Science Wars: An Interview
I had the pleasure of speaking with Sally Smith Hughes recently about her book on the history of Genentech and the business of recombinant DNA technology. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Genentech: An Interview
I spoke with Laura Stark this week about her great new book, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Behind Closed Doors: An Interview
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