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.
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