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*Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of
Science* 5:1 (2011) is now available online.
We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web
site to review articles and items of interest at
http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/.

*Table of Contents
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*Focused Discussion:Science and Public Controversy *

Curtis Forbes: Science and Public Controversy: Editor's Introduction
Bernard Lightman: Periodicals and Controversy
Brent Tibor Ranalli: A Prehistory of Peer Review: Religious Blueprints from
the Hartlib Circle
Evelyn Fox Keller: What Are Climate Scientists to do?
Jane Maienschein: Why Do Stem Cells Create Such Public Controversy?
Shiju Sam Varughese: Media and Science in Disaster Contexts: Deliberations
on Earthquakes in the Regional Press in Kerala, India

*Articles*

Andrew Peterson: The Relevance of Scientific Practice to The Problem of
Coordination
Bryn Lander: Between theory and Craft: Exploring the Role of Co-operation
within Scientific Research Labs

*Opinions*

Steve Fuller: A Response to Mike Thicke

*Reviews
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Joelle M. Abi-Rached: Robert A. Aronowitz. *Unnatural History: Breast Cancer
and American Society*
Martin J. Earl: Charles E. Rosenberg.* Our Present Complaint: American
Medicine, Then and Now*
Boaz Miller: Lee McIntyre. *Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human
Behavior*
Felix Ernst Rietmann: *“What is HPS for?” Review of the Fifth Joint Workshop
on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science*
Mike Thicke: Steve Fuller. *Science*
Nicholas J. Rowland, Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Alexander B. Kinney: Bruno Latour.
*Reassembling the Social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory*
Julia R. Bursten: Sam Kean. *The Disappearing Spoon, and Other True Tales of
Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the
Elements*
Barbara C. Canavan: Siddhartha Mukherjee.* The Emperor of all Maladies: A
Biography of Cancer *