This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages.
Research article
The past as a work in progress PATRICIA FARA The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 1 – 15 doi: 10.1017/S0007087417001042 Published Online on 20 December 2017
Robert Boyle and the representation of imperceptible entities ALEXANDER WRAGGE-MORLEY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 17 – 40 doi: 10.1017/S0007087417000899 Published Online on 6 November 2017
The history of transdisciplinary race classification: methods, politics and institutions, 1840s–1940s RICHARD MCMAHON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 41 – 67 doi: 10.1017/S0007087417001054 Published Online on 8 February 2018
Apes, skulls and drums: using images to make ethnographic knowledge in imperial Germany MARISSA H. PETROU The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 69 – 98 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000018 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Ethnic cartography and politics in Vienna, 1918–1945 PETRA SVATEK The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 99 – 121 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800002X Published Online on 13 February 2018
Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge and the science of audiometric standardization in Britain JAIPREET VIRDI, COREEN MCGUIRE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 123 – 146 doi: 10.1017/S0007087417000929 Published Online on 13 December 2017
Essay Review
Utopian biologies Jim EndersbyThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 147 – 152 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000067 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Book review
Michel Blay , Critique de l'histoire des sciences. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2017. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-2-271-09184-0. €22.00 (paperback). Paolo BussottiThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 153 – 155 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000079 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Ronald S. Calinger , Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 669. ISBN 978-0-691-11927-4. $55.00/€40.95 (cloth). Danny BeckersThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 155 – 156 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000080 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Sarah R. Kyle , Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xiii + 243. ISBN 978-1-4724-4652-7. £110.00 (hardcover). Vittoria FeolaThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 157 – 158 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000092 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes (ed.), Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. ix + 204. ISBN 978-1-138-67938-2. £110.00 (hardcover). Ubiratan D'AmbrosioThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 158 – 160 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000109 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Meredith K. Ray , Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 98. ISBN 978-1-137-59769-4. £45.00 (hardcover). Timothy DuffyThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 160 – 161 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000110 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Susan Broomhall (ed.), Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650–1850. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 241. ISBN 978-1-138-82817-9. £31.99 (paperback). Rob BoddiceThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 161 – 162 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000122 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Trevor Levere , Larry Stewart and Hugh Torrens , with Joseph Wachelder , The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, Medicine, and Reform. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-1-4724-8829-9. £110.00 (hardcover). Tim FulfordThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 162 – 164 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000134 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Iwan Rhys Morus , William Robert Grove: Victorian Gentleman of Science. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017. Pp. 172. ISBN 978-1-78683-004-3. £16.99 (paperback). Bruce J. HuntThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 164 – 165 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000146 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Volker R. Remmert , Martina R. Schneider and Henrik Kragh Sørensen (eds.), Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Cham: Birkhauser and Springer, 2016. Pp. 267. ISBN 978-3-319-39647-7. £89.50 (hardcover). Michalis SialarosThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 165 – 167 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000158 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Anne R. Hanley , Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886–1916. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-3-319-32454-8. £66.99 (hardcover). Elliott BowenThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 167 – 168 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800016X Published Online on 7 March 2018
Brian J. McVeigh , The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-1-4742-8308-3. £76.50 (hardback). Roger SmithThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 169 – 170 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000171 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Rebecca Onion , Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 226. ISBN 978-1-4696-2947-6. $29.95 (paperback). Ruth WainmanThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 170 – 171 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000183 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Hallam Stevens , Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 397. ISBN 978-0-226-04601-3. £21.00/$30.00 (paperback). Peter ReedThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 172 – 173 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000195 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Andreas-Holger Maehle , Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 165. ISBN 978-0-226-40482-0. $40.00 (cloth). Anne HanleyThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 173 – 174 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000201 Published Online on 7 March 2018
John L. Ingraham , Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 263. ISBN 978-0-674-66040-3. $29.95 (hardcover). Laura DawesThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 175 – 176 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000213 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Joanna Radin , Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 305. ISBN 978-0-226-41731-8. $40.00 (hardcover). Michael F. McGovernThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 176 – 177 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000225 Published Online on 7 March 2018
Myles W. Jackson , The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-262-02866-0. $37.00 (hardcover). Mauro CapocciThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 1, March 2018, pp 177 – 179 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000237 Published Online on 7 March 2018