'Items for criticism (not in sequence)': Joseph DeLee, Pare Lorentz and The Fight for Life (1940) [0.03%]
《质疑的对象（不分先后）——约瑟夫·德利、帕尔·洛伦茨与〈为了生命〉(1940)》
Caitjan Gainty
Caitjan Gainty
In the late 1920s, the American obstetrician Joseph DeLee brought the motion-picture camera into the birth room. Following that era's trend of adapting industrial efficiency practices for medical environments, DeLee's films give spectacular...
Thin blue lines: product placement and the drama of pregnancy testing in British cinema and television [0.03%]
英国电影和电视中的隐形营销：怀孕测试的戏剧性一幕
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
This article uses the case of pregnancy testing in Britain to investigate the process whereby new and often controversial reproductive technologies are made visible and normalized in mainstream entertainment media. It shows how in the 1980s...
'Drawing aside the curtain': natural childbirth on screen in 1950s Britain [0.03%]
“撩开帷幕”：二十世纪五十年代英国影视作品中的自然分娩形象
Salim Al-Gailani
Salim Al-Gailani
This article recovers the importance of film, and its relations to other media, in communicating the philosophies and methods of 'natural childbirth' in the post-war period. It focuses on an educational film made in South Africa around 1950...
David K Hecht
David K Hecht
Nuclear history always compels. Scholars (and readers) can immerse themselves in the existential threat posed by the atomic bomb and its successor weapons, the tantalizing prospect of carbon-free energy, or the study of a natural phenomenon...
Janina Wellmann
Janina Wellmann
With the recent advent of systems biology, developmental biology is taking a new turn. Attempts to create a 'digital embryo' are prominent among systems approaches. At the heart of these systems-based endeavours, variously described as 'in ...
'A machine for recreating life': an introduction to reproduction on film [0.03%]
《再造生命的机器——论电影中的复制与再现》
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn,Patrick Ellis
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
Reproduction is one of the most persistently generative themes in the history of science and cinema. Cabbage fairies, clones and monstrous creations have fascinated filmmakers and audiences for more than a century. Today we have grown accus...
Lorenz Oken (1779-1851): Naturphilosophie and the reform of natural history [0.03%]
洛伦茨·奥肯（1779-1851）：自然哲学与自然科学改革
Andrea Gambarotto
Andrea Gambarotto
The paper focuses on the work of Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) in an attempt to make sense of the role played by Romantic Naturphilosophie in the development of natural history in Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century. It first focuses on...
Physics moves to the provinces: the Siberian physics community and Soviet power, 1917-1940 [0.03%]
物理学走向边疆：1917-1940年的西伯利亚物理界与苏联政权
Paul Josephson,Aleksandr Sorokin
Paul Josephson
The rich tradition of Siberian science and higher education is little known outside Russian academic circles. Using institutional history, this article focuses on the founding and pre-war period of the Siberian Physical Technical Institute,...