Contemporary scholarship concerning science diplomacy is increasingly taking a historical
approach. In our introduction to this special issue, we argue that this approach promises …

" Mass Vaccination comfortably establishes itself as the leading and indeed essential
monograph on the history of vaccination in modern China; a much-needed contribution to …

String theorists are certain that they are practicing physicists. Yet, some of their recent critics
deny this. This paper argues that this conflict is really about who holds authority in making …

This article argues that global environmental changes provided a fruitful ground for scientific
collaboration during the Cold War. Taking the climate research cooperation of the 1972 US …

Science during the Cold War has become a matter of lively interest within the historical
research community, attracting the attention of scholars concerned with the history of …

The origins of the Indian space program are typically traced back to the founding of a rocket
launch base in Thumba in the state of Kerala in India in the 1960s. In creating infrastructure …

This paper aims to widen the history of blood disease research beyond sickle cell anemia,
situating it at the intersection of US racial politics and public health, and international malaria …

The history of the Cold War has rarely been looked at through the eyes of the smaller
powers, especially ones in the Balkans. Works have also often ignored the actual workings …

Abstract The Danish physicist Niels Bohr is best known for two major achievements: first, his
model of the quantum atom, published in 1913, for which he received the Nobel Prize in …

In this chapter we describe the history and current state of the interdisciplinary field of
feminist science studies. Earlier work in feminist science studies identified a lack of women …