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Apr 28, 2025

Tomiko Yamaguchi 山口富子 and Masato Fukushima 福島真人, eds., Yosoku ga tsukuru shakai: “Kagaku no kotoba” no tsukawarekata 予測がつくる社会: 「科学の言葉」の使われ方 [Simulation, Prediction, and Society: The Politics of Forecasting]

While foreseeing before acting is a human attribute that has existed down the ages, it is particularly characteristic of
Tomiko Yamaguchi 山口富子 and Masato Fukushima 福島真人, eds., Yosoku ga tsukuru shakai: “Kagaku no kotoba” no tsukawarekata 予測がつくる社会: 「科学の言葉」の使われ方 [Simulation, Prediction, and Society: The Politics of Forecasting]
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Apr 28, 2025

Florence Bretelle-Establet, Marie Gaille, and Mehrnaz Katousian-Safadi eds.,Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America, Springer Verlag,2019.ISBN: 9783030190811

As the title suggests, this edited volume covers an array od areas: geographically, thematically, and temporally.
Florence Bretelle-Establet, Marie Gaille, and Mehrnaz Katousian-Safadi eds.,Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America, Springer Verlag,2019.ISBN: 9783030190811
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Apr 28, 2025

Kokubun Koichiro 國分功一郎, Genshiryoku-jidai ni okeru tetsugaku 原子力時代における哲学 [Philosophy in the Atomic Age] Kokubun Koichiro Tokyo 東京: Shobun-sya 晶 文 社, 2019. 317 pp. ¥1980 paperback. ISBN: 9784794970398.

The author of this book, Kokubun Kouichiro, is a Japanese philosopher. The book has developed from a series
Kokubun Koichiro 國分功一郎, Genshiryoku-jidai ni okeru tetsugaku 原子力時代における哲学 [Philosophy in the Atomic Age] Kokubun Koichiro Tokyo 東京: Shobun-sya 晶 文 社, 2019. 317 pp. ¥1980 paperback. ISBN: 9784794970398.
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Apr 28, 2025

Jia-Chen Fu, The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 276 pp. $30 softcover, $95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780295744032.

Among the historical germs that Jia-Chen Fu has unearthed in her intricate study of the transformation of soymilk in
Jia-Chen Fu, The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 276 pp. $30 softcover, $95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780295744032.
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Apr 28, 2025

Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang, eds., Can Science and Technology Save China?

This edited volume, composed of eight anthropological studies, explores the modernization and governance of...
Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang, eds., Can Science and Technology Save China?
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Apr 28, 2025

Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory

Since the US launched its National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000, the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), an...
Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory
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Apr 28, 2025

美援年代的鳥事並不如煙 [Anecdotes of Unforgettable Moments in US Aid to Taiwan]

The Cold War's influence was so profound that one cannot fully understand the development of postwar East Asia...
美援年代的鳥事並不如煙 [Anecdotes of Unforgettable Moments in US Aid to Taiwan]
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Apr 28, 2025

Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China

This review of Passage to Manhood is an intriguing presence in an STS journal, as the book is concerned more with...
Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China
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Apr 28, 2025

Techno/Bio Politics: Contemporary Science, Medicine and Technology

The collection, Techno/Bio Politics: Contemporary science, medicine and technology (2008), provides valuable case...
Techno/Bio Politics: Contemporary Science, Medicine and Technology
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Apr 28, 2025

Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History

Southern Medicine for Southern People and Vietnamese Traditional Medicine reflect an important moment in...
Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History
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