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    Collections series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern ... En savoir plus

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  • Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy

    Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos

    Collections series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book explains how an isolated continent with limited resources grew to be one of the leaders in the study of radio astronomy and the design of instruments to do so.Pawsey made a name for ... En savoir plus

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