Spontaneous Generations is an online, peer-reviewed academic journal established to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and debate about issues that concern the community of scholars in the history and philosophy of science and related fields. A unique feature of the journal is a Focused Discussion section consisting of short peer-reviewed and invited articles devoted to a particular theme that alternates every issue. The journal also publishes original peer-reviewed research papers, opinions pieces and book-reviews.
Announcements
Call for Papers for our Sixth Volume (2012) |
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| We are now accepting submissions for our fifth volume (2012) in all areas of HPS. We especially encourage short papers for inclusion in the Focused Discussion section "Visual Representation and Science." Submissions should be sent no later than 24 February 2012. For instructions for paper submission press here. |
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Vol 5, No 1 (2011): Science and Public Controversy
Table of Contents
Focused Discussion
| Science and Public Controversy: Editor's Introduction | |
| Curtis Forbes | 1-4 |
| Periodicals and Controversy | |
| Bernard Lightman | 5-11 |
| A Prehistory of Peer Review: Religious Blueprints from the Hartlib Circle | |
| Brent Tibor Ranalli | 12-18 |
| What Are Climate Scientists to Do? | |
| Evelyn Fox Keller | 19-26 |
| Why Do Stem Cells Create Such Public Controversy? | |
| Jane Maienschein | 27-35 |
| Media and Science in Disaster Contexts: Deliberations on Earthquakes in the Regional Press in Kerala, India | |
| Shiju Sam Varughese | 36-43 |
Articles
| The Relevance of Scientific Practice to The Problem of Coordination | |
| Andrew Peterson | 44-57 |
| Between Theory and Craft: Exploring the Role of Co-operation within Scientific Research Labs | |
| Bryn Lander | 58-74 |
Opinions
| A Response to Mike Thicke (2011) | |
| Steve Fuller | 75-78 |
Reviews
| Robert A. Aronowitz. Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society | |
| Joelle M. Abi-Rached | 79-82 |
| Charles E. Rosenberg. Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now | |
| Martin J. Earl | 83-84 |
| Lee McIntyre. Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior | |
| Boaz Miller | 85-87 |
| “What is HPS for?” Review of the Fifth Joint Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science | |
| Felix Ernst Rietmann | 88-90 |
| Steve Fuller. Science | |
| Mike Thicke | 91-94 |
| Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory | |
| Nicholas J. Rowland, Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Alexander B. Kinney | 95-99 |
| Sam Kean. The Disappearing Spoon, and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements | |
| Julia R. Bursten | 100-102 |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | |
| Barbara C. Canavan | 103-105 |
ISSN: 1913-0465