A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews
and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of …

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness,
Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese …

In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among
sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the …

Garrett, Mike Robinson, Tone Bratteteig, Rogers Hall, Susan Newman, Susanne Bødker,
Allan Riegenstreif, and Jean Lave. This raw list cannot do justice to their help. Benoit Malin …

Writing this book took a lot longer than I had expected. When I wrote the first edition back in
2007/2008, I found it quite an easy task. It was based on a class I taught, and the outline of …

Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people
into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far …

From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares
and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in …

During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes,
and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for biological heredity. Such views shaped …

Robert Koch's 1882 demonstration that the tubercle bacillus was the true cause of
tuberculosis established a new understanding of causation in medicine. This scientific …

In this paper we examine two policy questions about the COVID 19 pandemic in the
Philippines. These are science informed policy questions that will have to take into …