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
Blood money: Harvey's De motu cordis (1628) as an exercise in accounting MICHAEL J. NEUSS The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 181 – 203 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000250 Published Online on 13 April 2018
Specimens, slips and systems: Daniel Solander and the classification of nature at the world's first public museum, 1753–1768 EDWIN D. ROSE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 205 – 237 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000249 Published Online on 15 April 2018
A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating veterinary education, 1766–1799 KIT HEINTZMAN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 239 – 260 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000274 Published Online on 18 April 2018
Science and self-assessment: phrenological charts 1840–1940 FENNEKE SYSLING The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 261 – 280 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000055 Published Online on 26 March 2018
Relocating anti-racist science: the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race and economic development in the global South SEBASTIÁN GIL-RIAÑO The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 281 – 303 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000286 Published Online on 7 May 2018
Book review
Pankaj Jain, Science and Socio-religious Revolution in India: Moving the Mountains. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xxii + 98. ISBN 978-1-138-02359-8. £48.99 (hardcover). Deepak Kumar The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 305 – 307 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000316 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-0-226-35136-0. $30.00 (hardback). Victor D. Boantza The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 307 – 309 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000328 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Hannah Gay and William P. Griffith, The Chemistry Department at Imperial College: A History, 1845–2000. London: World Scientific Publishing, 2017. Pp. xi + 569 + illus. ISBN 978-1-78326-973-0. £56.00 (hardcover). Peter J.T. Morris The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 309 – 311 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800033X Published Online on 31 May 2018
Courtney Fullilove, The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-226-45486-3. $40.00 (hardback). Thomas P. Weber The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 311 – 313 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000341 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Tara H. Abraham, Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-262-03509-5. $40.00 (hardcover). Yvan Prkachin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 313 – 314 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000353 Published Online on 31 May 2018
J. David Archibald, Origins of Darwin's Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle through Time and Place. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 192. ISBN 978-0-231-17684-2. £54.95 (hardcover). David Peace The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 314 – 316 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000365 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Tania Anne Woloshyn, Soaking Up the Rays: Light Therapy and Visual Culture in Britain, c.1890–1940. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 273. ISBN 978-1-7849-9512-6. £45.00 (hardcover). Sarah Murphy-Young The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 316 – 317 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000377 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Carl A. Zimring, Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Pp. 199. ISBN 978-1-4214-2186-5. $39.95 (hardcover). Wythe Marschall The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 317 – 319 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000389 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Lisa Vox, Existential Threats: American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 266. ISBN 978-0-8122-4919-4. $55.00 (cloth). Gemma Curto The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 319 – 321 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000390 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Rana A. Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xx + 268. ISBN 978-1-4696-3287-2. $27.95 (paperback). Rebecca Martin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 321 – 322 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000407 Published Online on 31 May 2018
J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. 359. ISBN 978-0-231-17954-6. $65.00/£54.00 (cloth). Anup Kumar Das The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 323 – 324 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000419 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Andreas Marklund and Mogens Rüdiger (eds.), Historicizing Infrastructure. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2017. Pp. 235. ISBN 978-87-7112-594-8. DKr 298.00 (hardcover). Graeme Gooday The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 324 – 326 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000420 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Roland Wittje, The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 297. ISBN 978-0-262-03526-2. $40.00/£32.95 Annie Jamieson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 326 – 328 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000432 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Friedrich Steinle, Exploratory Experiments: Ampère, Faraday and the Origins of Electrodynamics. Translated by Alex Levine. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 494. ISBN 978-0-8229-4450-8. $65.00 (hardcover). Isobel Falconer The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 328 – 329 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000444 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Cristiano Casalini, Aristotle in Coimbra: The Cursus Conimbricensis and the Education at the College of Arts. Translated by Luana Salvarani. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. viii + 195. ISBN 978-1-472-46410-1. £110.00 (hardcover) Fabrizio Bigotti The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 329 – 330 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000456 Published Online on 31 May 2018
Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner, eds., Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 175. ISBN 978-0-7190-8977-0. £70.00 (hardcover). Hannah Conway The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 2, June 2018, pp 331 – 332 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000468 Published Online on 31 May 2018