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Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine is the latest book by Marta Hanson, historian of Chinese science and...

As the title of its introduction implies, the ambition of Francesca Bray's new book is to demonstrate the "power of...

Going to the zoo has become such an ordinary ritual that we might wonder at a person who has never had the chance to...

Seismology, the science of earthquakes and related issues, must seek to understand the Earth's natural mechanisms and...

The recent publication of the twenty-four-volume Zhu Kezhen Quanji (hereafter ZKZQJ) is a historians' dream come...

Yuri Takhteyev's Coding Places is an ethnographic study of software development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As such...

This richly detailed book is a veritable master class in how to construct a "woman's history of medical care" when...

Suzhou and the lower Yangzi River region, central to the material and intellectual life of the Chinese empire in the...

This well-researched, very readable book makes a significant contribution to our understanding about the rise of the...

This is a book that resulted from long-term fermentation. It not only provides a concise history of autoimmunity but...