Volume 31, Number 1-2, 2008 Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise Guest-edited by Victoria Dickenson and Elsbeth Heaman
Table of contents (32 articles)
Articles
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Introduction. Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise
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La première iconographie du castor
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Cartier, Champlain, and the Fruits of the New World: Botanical Exchange in the 16th and 17th Centuries
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Medical Encounters and Exchange in Early Canadian Missions
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The Hudson’s Bay Company as a Context for Science in the Columbia Department
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Placing Colonial Ornithology: Imperial Ambiguities in Upper Canada, 1791- 1841
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Science on a Salad Plate? Thinking About the Representation of Natural History in the Canadian Historic Dinner Service Project
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Allan Brooks, Naturalist and Artist (1869-1946): The Travails of an Early Twentieth Century Wildlife Illustrator in North America
Research Note / Note de recherche
Book Reviews: General / Comptes rendus : Général
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Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond. By Andrew Biro. (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiii + 250 p., ill, notes, index. isbn 0-8020-8022-7 hc. $50 0-8020-3794-1 pb. $24.95)
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Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920. By Margaret E. Derry. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xvii + 302 p., ill., notes, app., index. isbn 978-0-8020-9112-3 $63)
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Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Sal Restivo. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 728 p., index. isbn 0-19-514193-8 $150)
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Le nouveau roman de l’énergie nationale. Analyse des discours promotionnels d’Hydro-Québec de 1964 à 1997. Par Dominique Perron. (Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2006. 240 p., ill., bibl., index. isbn 1-55238-203-6 44,95 $)
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Managing Canada’s Fisheries : From Early Days to the Year 2000. By Joseph Gough. (Sillery: Septentrion, 2005. xxiii + 304 p., ill., tab., notes, bibl., index. isbn 978-2-8944-8523-1 $55)
Book Reviews: Science / Comptes rendus : Science
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The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession. By Jack Meadows. (London: The British Library, 2004. vi + 202 p., ill., index. isbn 0-7123-0894-6 $35)
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Public Science, Private Interests: Culture and Commerce in Canada’s Network of Centers of Excellence. Par Janet Atkinson-Grosjean. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xviii + 269 p. fig., ill., app., index. isbn 0-8020-8005-7 58$)
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Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. By Michael R. Lynn. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. ix + 177 p., bibl., index. isbn 07190-7373-1 £50)
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Terra Nostra. Les cartes du Canada et leurs secrets, 1550-1950. Par Jeffrey S. Murray. (Québec : Septentrion, 2006. 192 p., ill., index. isbn 2-89448-452-6 70$)
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Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures. Edited by Glen Van Brummelen and Michael Kinyon. (New York: Springer, 2005. 357 p., ill., index. ISMB 0-387-25284-3)
Book Reviews: Technology / Comptes rendus : Technologie
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Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River. By Matthew D. Evenden. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xvii, 309 pp., diag., ill., tables, maps, bibl. isbn 0-521-83099-0 £40.00)
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Profiting the Crown : Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990. By Matthew J. Bellamy. (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. xxiii + 304 p., ill., tab., notes, bibl., index. isbn 0-7735-2815-6 $65)
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Roughnecks, Rock Bits, and Rigs: The Evolution of Oil Well Drilling Technology in Alberta, 183-1970. By Sandy Gow. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. 674 p., ill., bibl., app., isbn 1-55238-067-x $44.95)
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“Just Dummies”: Cruise Missile Testing in Canada. By John M. Clearwater. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006. 270 p., bibl., notes, index isbn 1-55238-211-7 $34.95)
Book Reviews: Medicine / Comptes rendus : Médecine
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Clio in the Clinic: History in Medical Practice. Edited by Jacalyn Duffin. (Toronto. University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxii + 334 p., ill. isbn 0-8020-3854-9 hc. $65 0-8020-3798-4 pb. 35$)
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Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. By Marianne P. Fedunkiw. (Montreal / Kingston : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. xiv + 201 p., ill., notes, bibl., index. isbn 0-7735-2897-0 $75)
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An Element of Hope: Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada 1900-1940. By Charles Hayter. (Montreal / Kingston : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. 288 p., ill., notes, bibl., index. isbn 978-0-7735-2869-7 hc. $80)
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Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical Perspective / La quantification médicale. Perspectives historiques et sociologiques. Edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel, George Weisz. (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. x + 401p., index. isbn 0-7735-2925-x $34.95)
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The Fall of an Icon: Psychoanalysis and Academic Psychiatry. By Joel Paris. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 226 p., isbn 978-0-8020-3933-0 hc. $53 978-0-8020-3772-5 pb. $29.95)
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Histoire des orthophonistes et audiologistes au Québec, 1940-2005. Pratiques cliniques, aspirations professionnelles et politiques de la santé. Par Julien Prud’homme. (Montréal : Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2005. xvi + 149 p., notes, bibl. isbn 2-7605-1378-5 25 $)
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The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children. By Miriam Shuchman. (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2005. 464 p., isbn 978-0-679-31084-6 $34.95)
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Labour in the Laboratory: Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes. By Peter L. Twohig. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. 264 p., notes, bibl., ill., ISBN 978-0-7735-2861-1 $70)