The British Journal for the History of Science

Computing as sugar? The sweet and the bitter of social histories of computing.

Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000591 Jonnie Penn

Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvanist Cliché Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-63714-3. $89.00 (cloth).

Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000360 Kevin Matthew Jones

Stig S. Frøland, Duel without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes (trans. John Irons) London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 632. ISBN: 978-1-78914-505-2. £30.00 GBP (paperback).

Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000396 Emily Webster