New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (13.1, June 2019) online
M. Luísa Sousa
HoST — Journal
of History of Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed open access journal,
available online, published in English by De Gruyter/Sciendo, as a result of a
partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, Institute
for Social Sciences, and Institute of Contemporary History).
TABLE
OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME 13.1
Special issue "Before the Silent Spring: Pesticides in Twentieth-Century
Europe", with an introduction by the Guest Editor José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez,
which presents a critical literature review framing the new perspectives
brought by its four(*) research articles, namely by approaching
chronologies (first half of the twentieth century), pesticides (before DDT) and
geographies (Spain and Norway) that, in general, are not part of dominant
narratives.
"Introduction.
Pesticides: Past and Present", José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez
"Influencing
for results: Bees, Beekeepers and Norwegian Pesticide Legislation", Anne
Jorunn Frøyen
"Following
Hydrogen Cyanide in the Valencian Country (1907-1933): Risk, Accidents and
Standards in Fumigation", Ximo Guillem-Llobat
"Arsenical
Pesticides in Early Francoist Spain: Fascism, Autarky, Agricultural Engineers
and the Invisibility of Toxic Risks", José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez
(*) for unforeseen reasons, the fourth article of this special issue, by May-Brith Ohman Nielsen, will only be published in the next HoST issue: HoST 13.2 (December 2019)
An extended abstract of the Distinguished Lecture (CIUHCT) by Thomas J.
Misa, about the new techno-cultural digital “era”, using the lenses of the
history of technology to critically discuss the technological determinism
present in some narratives on the Moore’s law, "Dominance of the Digital (1990–2016)"
A "work in progress" by the PhD candidate Inês N. Navalhas about her on going work "Communicating Science and Technology. Gradiva’s Books of Popularization of Science and Technology and the Portuguese Public"
Three book reviews:
"Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific
Organisms and the History of Fascism", Jonathan Harwood
"La colonisation du savoir. Une
histoire de plantes médicinales du “Nouveau Monde” (1492–1750)", Laia
Portet-Codina
"Pain,
Pleasure, and the Greater Good. From
the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond", Javier Moscoso