History of science
The resources below have been selected for their content and strategies. They are drawn from different regions and decades and as such may contain language that is out of date or reflect regional differences.
- Des Jardins, J. (2010). The Madame Curie complex: The hidden history of women in science. Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
- Frize, M., Faulkner, N., & Frize, P. R. D. (2009). The bold and the brave: A history of women in science and engineering. University of Ottawa Press.
- Jones, C. G., Martin, A. E., & Wolf, A. (2022). The Palgrave handbook of women and science since 1660. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Murphy, K. S. (2011). Translating the vernacular: Indigenous and African knowledge in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. Atlantic Studies, 8(1), 29–48. doi: 10.1080/14788810.2011.541188
- Poskett, J. (2019). Materials of the mind: Phrenology, race, and the global history of science, 1815-1920. The University of Chicago Press.
- Poskett, J. (2022). Horizons: The global origins of modern science. Mariner Books.
- Turnbull, D. (2000). Masons, tricksters and cartographers: Comparative studies in the sociology of scientific and Indigenous knowledge. Harwood Academic.
- Snively, G., & Corsiglia, J. (2001). Discovering Indigenous science: Implications for science education. Science Education, 85(1), 6–34. doi: 1098-237X(200101)85:1<6::AID-SCE3>3.0.CO;2-R
- Blair, L. (2023). The calf with two heads: Transatlantic natural history in the Canadas. Baraka Books.
- Gibson, P. (2023). The plant thieves: Secrets of the herbarium. NewSouth Publishing.
- Hay, T. (2021). Inventing the thrifty gene: The science of settler colonialism. University of Manitoba Press.
- Huylebrouck, D. (2019). Africa and mathematics: From colonial findings back to the Ishango rods. Springer Nature.
- Murphy, K. S. (2023). Captivity’s collections: Science, natural history, and the British transatlantic slave trade. The University of North Carolina Press.
- Shteir, A. B. (2022). Flora’s fieldworkers: Women and botany in nineteenth-century Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- Braun, L. (2014). Breathing race into the machine: The surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics. University of Minnesota Press.
- DeSalle, R., & Tattersall, I. (2018). Troublesome science: The misuse of genetics and genomics in understanding race. Columbia University Press.
- Downs, J. (2021). Maladies of empire: How colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
- Geddes, G. (2017). Medicine unbundled: A journey through the minefields of Indigenous health care. Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd.
- Hogarth, R. A. (2017). Medicalizing blackness: Making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840. University of North Carolina Press.
- Kahn, J. (2013). Race in a bottle: The story of BiDil and racialized medicine in a post-genomic age. Columbia University Press.
- Lux, M. K. (2016). Separate beds: A history of Indian hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s. University of Toronto Press.
- Newnes, C. (2021). Racism in psychology: Challenging theory, practice and institutions. Routledge.
- Reverby, S. M. (2009). Examining Tuskegee: The infamous syphilis study and its legacy. The University of North Carolina Press.
- Schiebinger, L. L. (2017). Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Stanford University Press.
- Swartz, S. (2023). Psychoanalysis and colonialism: A contemporary introduction. Routledge.
- Wailoo, K., Nelson, A., & Lee, C. (2012). Genetics and the unsettled past: The collision of DNA, race, and history. Rutgers University Press.