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Articles

The Simple and Courageous Course: Industrial Patronage of Basic
Research at the University of Chicago, 1945–1953
Joseph D. Martin
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 697-716.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711949?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Constructing the Field in Interwar Social Anthropology: Power,
Personae, and Paper Technology
Freddy Foks
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 717-739.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712138?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Vincenzo Galilei’s Musicology and Galileo’s Science: Methodological
Comparison and Contrast
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 740-758.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712039?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

A Moral Obligation to Proper Experimentation: Research Ethics as
Epistemic Filter in the Aftermath of World War II
Noortje Jacobs
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 759-780.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712205?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Editors’ Introduction
Alexandra Hui and Matthew Lavine
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 781-782.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712336?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Materializing COVID
Dan Bouk
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 783-786.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712337?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Learning to Live with the Virus
Robert Aronowitz
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 787-790.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712237?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Epidemic Years: A Third Look
Dora Vargha
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 791-794.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712252?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Recovering Hygienic Modernity in the World of COVID-19
Mary Augusta Brazelton
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 795-799.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712383?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Sickness and Sweetness and Power
John Tresch
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 800-804.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712361?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

So Who Cares? Taking Livingston out of Africa
Christopher Hamlin
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 805-808.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712382?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Revisiting the Plague in the Age of Galileo
Hannah Marcus
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 809-813.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712384?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Someday a Big Plague Will Come: Laurie Garrett’s The Coming Plague:
Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 814-817.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712360?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

A “Menace” or a Martyr to the Public’s Health?
Jacob Steere-Williams
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 818-821.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712254?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Rereading The Gospel of Germs during a Pandemic
John Harley Warner
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 822-825.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712235?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Finding Deborah: Centering Patients and Placing Emotion in the History
of Disease
Courtney E. Thompson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 826-829.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712236?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Troubling (Post)colonial Histories of Medicine: Toward a Praxis of the
Human
Edna Bonhomme
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 830-833.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712452?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

The Way We Live Now?
Warwick Anderson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 834-837.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712234?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Eloge: Eduard Izrailevich Kolchinskii (1944–2020)
Douglas R. Weiner, Lloyd Ackert, Stephen C. Brain, Loren R. Graham,
and Paul Josephson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 838-839.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712417?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

David Cahan’s Helmholtz: History of Science in European History
Mitchell G. Ash
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 840-844.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712451?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Who Wants to Be a Mathematician?
Christopher J. Phillips
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 845-848.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712471?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Ole Peter Grell; Andrew Cunningham; Jon Arrizabalaga, eds. “It All
Depends on the Dose”: Poisons and Medicines in European History;
Frederick W. Gibbs. Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and
Early Modern Europe.
Wouter Klein
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 849-851.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712000?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos; Barbara Zipser, eds. Brill’s Companion to
the Reception of Galen.
Alessia Guardasole
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 851-852.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712432?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Patrick Manning; Daniel Rood, eds. Global Scientific Practice in an
Age of Revolutions, 1750–1850; Patrick Manning; Mat Savelli, eds.
Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980; Patrick
Manning; Abigail Owen, eds. Knowledge in Translation: Global Patterns
of Scientific Exchange, 1000–1800 CE.
Dániel Margócsy
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 852-855.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712040?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Carla Bittel; Elaine Leong; Christine von Oertzen, eds. Working with
Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge.
Volker Hess
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 855-856.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712001?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

David F. Channell. The Rise of Engineering Science: How Technology
Became Scientific.
Eric Schatzberg
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 857-858.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711933?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Roger Smith. The Sense of Movement: An Intellectual History.
Susan Lanzoni
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 858-859.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711999?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Thomas Dodman. What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a
Deadly Emotion.
Fay Bound Alberti
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 859-860.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711929?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Owen Whooley. On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics
of Not Knowing.
Jonathan Sadowsky
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 861-862.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712363?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Esha Shah. Who Is the Scientist-Subject? Affective History of the
Gene.
Edna Suárez-Díaz
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 862-863.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712398?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Angela Ki Che Leung; Izumi Nakayama, eds. Gender, Health, and History
in Modern East Asia.
Soyoung Suh
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 863-864.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712399?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Theokritos Kouremenos. Plato’s Forms, Mathematics, and Astronomy.
Luca Simeoni
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 864-866.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712397?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jacqueline Feke. Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life.
Matthieu Husson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 866-867.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712400?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Keith Andrew Stewart. Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic
Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation; P. N. Singer; Philip J. van der
Eijk, eds. Galen: Works on Human Nature. Volume 1: Mixtures (De
temperamentis).
Caroline Petit
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 867-869.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712472?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Lucia Raggetti. ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī’s Book on the Useful Properties of
Animal Parts: Edition, Translation, and Study of a Fluid Tradition.
Emilie Savage-Smith
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 869-870.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712436?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

José Chabás. Computational Astronomy in the Middle Ages: Sets of
Astronomical Tables in Latin.
C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 870-871.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712435?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Julie Orlemanski. Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and
Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England.
Esther Cohen
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 871-872.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712428?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Sharon T. Strocchia. Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of
Health in Late Renaissance Italy.
Hannah Marcus
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 873-874.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712437?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Michael Brooks. The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook: A History of the
Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability,
and the New Physics of the Universe.
Howard G. Barth
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 874-875.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712430?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Hannah Murphy. A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in
Reformation Nuremberg.
Alisha Rankin
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 875-876.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712442?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Matthew James Crawford; Joseph M. Gabriel, eds. Drugs on the Page:
Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic
World.
Anna Winterbottom
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 877-878.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712434?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Pietro Greco. Galileo Galilei, the Tuscan Artist.
Matteo Valleriani
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 878-879.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712439?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Margaret Willes. The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.;
John Dixon Hunt. John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity.
Sean Silver
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 879-881.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712474?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Andrea Strazzoni. Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of
Science: From Regius to ’s Gravesande.
Klaas van Berkel
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 881-882.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712433?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Cornel Zwierlein. Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the
Mediterranean, 1650–1750.
Sonja Brentjes
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 883-884.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712431?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Eva Dolezel; Rainer Godel; Andreas Pečar; Holger Zaunstöck, eds.
Ordnen—Vernetzen—Vermitteln: Kunst- und Naturalienkammern der Frühen
Neuzeit als Lehr- und Lernorte.
Marika Keblusek
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 884-885.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712441?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jeremy Adelman, ed. Empire and the Social Sciences: Global Histories
of Knowledge.
Robert M. Rouphail
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 886-887.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712515?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Stephen Snelders. Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname under Dutch Rule,
1750–1950.
Nandini Bhattacharya
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 887-888.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712516?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Ron Broglio. Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in
British Romanticism.
Margaret Ronda
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 888-889.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712364?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Alison E. Martin. Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt’s Works in
Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Spencer Hawkins
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 890-891.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712365?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Amir A. Afkhami. A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in
Iran’s Age of Cholera.
Richard C. Keller
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 891-892.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712358?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jessica Wang. Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and
Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920.
Patricia D’Antonio
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 892-894.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712401?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Catherine L. Newell. Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and
America’s Final Frontier.
Asif A. Siddiqi
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 894-895.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712366?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. For the Birds: American Ornithologist Margaret
Morse Nice.
Saurabh Mishra
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 895-896.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712359?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Ilja Nieuwland. American Dinosaur Abroad: A Cultural History of
Carnegie’s Plaster Diplodocus.
Brian Noble
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 896-898.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712367?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jaume Navarro, ed. Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an
Epistemic Object in the Early Twentieth Century.
A. J. Kox
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 898-899.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712362?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jörg Resag. Feynman and His Physics: The Life and Science of an
Extraordinary Man.
Anja Skaar Jacobsen
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 899-900.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712473?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

John F. Marra. Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science.
Seth C. Rasmussen
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 900-901.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712475?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Dolores L. Augustine. Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany,
1945 to the Present.
Robert Gioielli
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 902-903.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712438?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Perrin Selcer. The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the
United Nations Built Spaceship Earth.
Julia Lajus
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 903-904.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712468?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Joshua P. Howe, ed. Making Climate Change History: Documents from
Global Warming’s Past.
Evan Hepler-Smith
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 904-906.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711931?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Simone Schleper. Planning for the Planet: Environmental Expertise and
the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources, 1960–1980.
Stefan Bargheer
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 906-907.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712517?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

David Cateforis; Steven Duval; Shepherd Steiner, eds. Hybrid
Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the
Long 1960s.
Matthew Wisnioski
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 907-908.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712470?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Rachel Emma Rothschild. Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the
Globalization of Pollution.
Vladimir Jankovic´
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 909-910.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712469?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Allan V. Horwitz. PTSD: A Short History.
Hans Pols
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 4: 910-911.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712440?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

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