Steven Shapin
Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. His next book will be Never Pure, a collection of his papers on the history and sociology of science.
In the LRB Archive:
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Against the Pussyfoots: George Saintsbury · 10 September 2009
- Notes on a Cellar-Book by George Saintsbury, edited by Thomas Pinney
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Abishag’s Revenge: Who wants to live for ever? · 26 March 2009
- Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer by David Boyd Haycock
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Species-Mongers: Joseph Hooker and the Dead Foreign Weeds · 20 November 2008
- Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science by Jim Endersby
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I’m a Surfer: What’s the Genome Worth? · 20 March 2008
- A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by Craig Venter
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Floating Medicine Chests: the Dutch East India Company · 7 February 2008
- Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold Cook
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Possessed by the Idols: Does Medicine Work? · 30 November 2006
- Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton
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When Men Started Doing It: At the Grill Station · 17 August 2006
- Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
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At the Amsterdam: A Wakefull and Civill Drink · 20 April 2006
- The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffee House by Brian Cowan
- Coffee House: A Cultural History by Markman Ellis
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Tod aus Luft: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber · 26 January 2006
- Between Genius and Genocide: The Tragedy of Fritz Haber, Father of Chemical Warfare by Daniel Charles
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What did you expect?: the banality of moon-talk · 1 September 2005
- Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
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Milk and Lemon: The Excesses of Richard Feynman · 7 July 2005
- Don’t You Have Time to Think? The Letters of Richard Feynman edited by Michelle Feynman
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Hedonistic Fruit Bombs: How good is Château Pavie? · 3 February 2005
- Bordeaux by Robert Parker
- The Wine Buyer’s Guide by Robert Parker and Pierre-Antoine Rovani
- Mondovino directed by Jonathan Nossiter
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The Great Neurotic Art: tucking into Atkins · 5 August 2004
- Dr Atkins’ New Diet Revolution: The No-Hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss Plan that Really Works! by Robert C. Atkins
- Atkins for Life: The Next Level, Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health by Robert C. Atkins
- The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston
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Talking with Alfred: Mr Loomis’s Obsession · 15 April 2004
- Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War Two by Jennet Conant
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Cheese and Late Modernity: The changing rind of Camembert · 20 November 2003
- Camembert: A National Myth by Pierre Boisard, translated by Richard Miller
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Ivory Trade: The Entrepreneurial University · 11 September 2003
- MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science by Henry Etzkowitz
- Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialisation of Higher Education by Derek Bok
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Rough Trade: Robert Hooke · 6 March 2003
- The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703 by Stephen Inwood
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One Peculiar Nut: The Life of René Descartes · 23 January 2003
- Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes by Richard A. Watson
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Barbecue of the Vanities: Big Food · 22 August 2002
- Eating Right in the Renaissance by Ken Albala
- Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
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Megaton Man: The Original Dr Strangelove · 25 April 2002
- Memoirs: A 20th-Century Journey in Science and Politics by Edward Teller and Judith Shoolery
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Dear Prudence: Stephen Toulmin · 14 January 2002
- Return to Reason by Stephen Toulmin
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Guests in the President’s House: Science Inc. · 18 October 2001
- Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel Greenberg
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A Man’s Man’s World on kitchens · 30 November 2000
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
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Don’t let that crybaby in here again: The Manhattan Project · 7 September 2000
- In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist by S.S. Schweber
- Atomic Fragments: A Daughter’s Questions by Mary Palevsky
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Fat is a manifest tissue on George Cheyne · 10 August 2000
- Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne by Anita Guerrini
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Trust me on French DNA · 27 April 2000
- French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory by Paul Rabinow
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Nobel Savage on Kary Mullis · 1 July 1999
- Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis
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Scientific Antlers: Fraud in the Lab · 4 March 1999
- The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character by Daniel Kevles
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Sailing Scientist: Edmund Halley · 2 July 1998
- Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas by Alan Cook
Letters
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