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Books currently available for review in PublicUnderstanding of Science

Public Understanding of Science would like to encourage submissions of:

• Reviews of a single book (max 400 words)

• Review essays, which take several new publications on a given topic andoffer a comparative assessment (maximum 1200 words). Example topicswe would currently welcome review essays on particularly include sciencecommunication in a global perspective; secrecy and/or ‘openness’; publichealth and/or biomedical sciences; environmental policy and publics.

We are also very interested in publishing reviews of science communication,engagement and participation n activities, events or exhibitions: pleaseget in touch with your ideas.

If you are interested in reviewing any of these, or have suggestions forrelevant books to review for PUS, please contact the Book Reviews Editor:

Dr. Angela Cassidy, Imperial College London:angela.cassidy@gmail.com 

 Jon Adams, Interference Patterns: Literary Study, Scientific Knowledge, andDisciplinary Autonomy . Bucknell University Press, 2009.http://www.bucknell.edu/script/upress/book.asp?id=265

Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Margaret Lock (eds.) Handbook of Genetics andSociety: Mapping the new genomic era. Routledge, 2009.http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/The-Handbook-of-Genetics--Society-isbn9780415410809 

Brian Balmer, Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological andChemical Warfare. Ashgate, 2012. http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=417&title_id=11012&edition_id=14507 

Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum (eds) The Culture of Science: Howthe Public Relates to Science Across the Globe. Routledge, 2012.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415873697/ David J. Bennett, Richard C. Jennings (eds) Successful Science Communication:

Telling It Like It Is. CUP, 2011.http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6453536/?site_locale=en_GB

Anders Blok, Torben Elgaard Jensen, Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a HybridWorld (Routledge, 2011)http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415602785/ 

William Byers, The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty (PrincetonUniversity Press, 2011) http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9406.html 

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Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont (eds) Social Knowledge in the

Making. Univ. Chicago Press, 2012.

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo11753188.html 

 John Cheng, Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in

Interwar America. Univ. Penn Press, 2012.http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14970.html 

Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, Janet K.

Shim (eds., 2010) Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the

U.S. Duke University Press.

http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?

productid=15326&viewby=subject&categoryid=677&sort=newest 

Harry Collins (2011) Gravity's Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century . University of Chicago Press

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo10156686.html 

Mark Davis, Sex, Technology and Public Health (Palgrave, 2009)http://www.palgrave.com/PRODUCTS/title.aspx?pid=279623 

Park Doing, Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Changein Science (MIT Press, 2009) http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/velvet-revolution-at-synchrotron

Steve Fuller, Science: The Art of Living. (Acumen Publishing, 2010)http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2009012713293172 

 Joshua P Gutwill and Sue Allen (2010) Group Inquiry at Science Museum Exhibits:Getting Visitors to Ask Juicy Questions. Left Coast Presshttp://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=306 

Bronwyn Hayward, Children, Citizenship and Environment: Nurturing aDemocratic Imagination in a Changing World. Routledge, 2012.www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849714372/ 

Carolyn M. Hendriks, The Politics of Public Deliberation: Citizen Engagement andInterest Advocacy. Palgrave, 2012http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=395776 

Richard Hindmarsh and Barbara Prainsack (2010) Genetic Suspects: Global

Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing Cambridge UniversityPress http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511778193 

Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio, Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Styleof Practice. Univ. Chicago Press, 2012.http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo12214917.html 

Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester Breeding Bio Insecurity: How U.S.Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure (University of Chicago Press, 2009)http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=2005775 

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Marc J. Kuchner, Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times. IslandPress, 2012.http://islandpress.org/ip/books/book/islandpress/M/bo8074505.html

Lane, Stuart; Klauser, Francisco; Kearnes, Matthew B. (eds.) Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics

. Wiley-VCH, 2012. http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/books/newTitles201204/0-470-97487-7/?sID=0ld2ljg6a7el9n6baajjbpsbh3

Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods. Duke Univ. Press, 2010http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=2836 

Simon Locke, Re-crafting Rationalization: Enchanted Science and MundaneMysteries. (Ashgate, 2011) http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&edition_id=12407&title_id=9297&calctitle=1 

Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally, and Kathleen Jordan, Truth Machine:

The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting. University of Chicago Press,2009. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=291908

Alberto A. Martinez, Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin's Finches,Einstein's Wife, and Other Myths (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011)http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sjO0eX9PCykC&dq=science+secrets+martinez&source=gbs_navlinks_s 

Greg Myers (2010) The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis. Continuumhttp://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=132398 

Nordmann, Alfred, Radder, Hans, Schiemann, Gregor, Science Transformed?Debating Claims of an Epochal Break . Univ. Pittsburgh Press, 2011http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36252 

Faidra Papanelopoulou, Agustí Nieto-Galan, Enrique Perdiguero, PopularizingScience and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000 (Ashgate,2009) http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=1090&title_id=9316&edition_id=10725

Louise Phillips, The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production andcommunication of knowledge. John Benjamins, 2011.

http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/ds.12 

Hans Radder (2010) The Commodification of Academic Research: Science andthe Modern University. Pittsburgh University Presshttp://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36159 

Gauhar Raza ... [et al.]. Constructing culture of science: communication of science in India and China. 2011, CSIR.http://www.dkagencies.com/doc/from/1063/to/1123/bkId/DKD56162763217313715028871364748731371/details.html 

"Rödder, Simone; Franzen, Martina; Weingart, Peter (Eds.)The Sciences’ Media

Connection –Public Communication and its Repercussions. Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Vol. 28, Springer, 2012.http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/book/978-94-007-2084-8

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 Joachim Schummer , Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent & Brigitte Van Tiggelen(eds) The Public Image of Chemistry . (World Scientific Books, 2007)http://www.worldscibooks.com/histsci/6636.html 

Albena Yaneva, Mapping Controversies in Architecture. Ashgate, 2012.http://mappingcontroversies.co.uk/ http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=422&title_id=10815&edition_id=14295