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[*Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life*](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9440.html) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985, New Edition 2011) (with Simon Schaffer).
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[*A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226750191/qid=1068495853/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-3660950-9584653?v=glance&s=books) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
[*The Scientific Revolution*](https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Revolution-science-culture-Steven-Shapin/dp/022639834X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535033134&sr=1-4&keywords=Steven%20Shapin&dpID=51czJDoIXIL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; second edition, with new Bibliographic Essay, 2018.).
[*Wetenschap is cultuur*](http://boeklog.info/2006/04/25/wetenschap-is-cultuur/), trans. Fred Hendriks (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Balans, 2005) (with Simon Schaffer).
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[*The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation*](http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Life-History-Modern-Vocation/dp/0226750248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215459567&sr=8-1) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
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[*Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority* ](http://www.amazon.com/Never-Pure-Historical-Struggling-Credibility/dp/0801894212/ref=tmm_pap_title_popover)(Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).
[*Eating and Being: A History about Our Food and Our Selves*](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo236372525.html) (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
## Edited Books
[*Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture*](http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?title=Natural%20Order%20Historical%20Studies%20of%20Scientific%20Culture) (London & Beverly Hills: Sage, 1979) (with Barry Barnes).
[*Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226470148/qid=1068589809/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-7959695-7439039?v=glance&s=books) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) (with Christopher Lawrence).
## Articles
[**“**Specialists with Spirit: Re-enchanting the Vocation of Science,”](https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/271753/1-s2.0-S0160932723X00052/1-s2.0-S0160932724000085/main.pdf?X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEAEaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIBpf5Sn9KmC25obQJvCd%2FUBChopB8b%2BgWYAkYvptJGA5AiEAsrsaN%2FWGdKwka48ynEijpYilI7FRmBPHMhJB0hOFiqkquwUIyv%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARAFGgwwNTkwMDM1NDY4NjUiDHCuHCDisuW%2F415HiSqPBceVT1xkiTLfp2Rk7Nnu5PBhSYet2b4l08wxUEzpJN7dZptsCtDXn5Pj4uqfvn%2FYkNMm5mAoM6QCEDz5%2FItC9MtnFraqfPRwRaEzvqdUWgwxKgiiWvp2XvgpfsOnGXlQpdkdu6Z6EeNf3Cz%2B6xjVmHDfBf%2BX1eyHXKZJTYFf%2BVbxSHJtBv%2BclEZlbBIaHOjznCvHk4rxb1vy%2BXfsQ26jtFiIO5alBsrjuCRuzOBUQXKqkAVS%2FIRQ8cU4unCB%2BZxMx1WFouVDNgtOn5IgrdzC2%2FVJxVdB0a1AuBDEdXTAaYZ0bNMEJTEBNg8q2tEsuZy4W72wHIe9bPlXLtQkKVIQ46H8mkWB%2BIRvxN7xOPwn2TsbFTTmqVaiOA0SSo921%2BITiw4QhUzvhrEIpPR4X5IS9Xk4hgQetpOynxlu9TPpF31LjVAqOi57%2BaM%2FppL3o2%2F8UA2eOWCZm%2FBuBLnSlK9VPjRxAP%2FahJFgVwDOEtJYwiZhJcLWRdiQODEgbdC2gCoz94mVb5dhiflJOgSHQR7ihJla1K%2FVo32rJz5NhRoVHIajWWiBidD1G0XhLBp5poaiKMmrcnmZVTvVC32%2FNBYsUhWe39ug%2FWSf1%2BYK615dTSdyMKGouxijBhMLCc%2B90mL0nP4P%2Fpd8MiO6h4azhK%2BBp6tE%2BdkpnincHjPPWSD06nuj16PV%2F4rd23%2FADC1b1W97HqfjLrZ6gOllNg%2F2N6sL8%2FAGLqs%2FunQsgffCuQ7W2356uzOUR6mHlQdFRUc9ruuhpx07%2Bs7N8kIdf0JtCU4dZj9BLKTTcaVSQ7yaoPB0Oz5HYWeId6k90wFjRS%2FOk80QOnmxiZxZMUl%2BbJZFhRKVszWqjlorTfyqMRFcKkfkUFEwmcGVzgY6sQGPZB0ZKe%2FbJrad6nwjBiQDLvGR5CovdtSSgCGOAN6IVSz1hxt6n%2BP03XCgXMvFSbZFsCZvZXOKsB6qQ6Cq8WNedX8AFFtIp60IIsqiseTN1Eqo1k0HDXwM9%2F8J23ZZm2%2FqksEkSLsaYXRhGIbkv20ukaD5xnbenXzQjxk6%2BMfZXEoIUDn8PFk15iHxAWSklwfh0OfffSs7G7mtfnYGIsCBxMSvB5C51T99WVJXnWgal4Q%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20260326T175004Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAQ3PHCVTYRMKSEARX%2F20260326%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=012728cb874bd8070adc6b3b71606be2d7c5e0e2bdd079c018346ba288b15504&hash=6f7db66cccf239574b0bf7ad8775cca7083a4befd3a0af67f303e512fb58b046&host=68042c943591013ac2b2430a89b270f6af2c76d8dfd086a07176afe7c76c2c61&pii=S0160932724000085&tid=spdf-9cb8427e-b4dc-456b-b906-0a82adc11546&sid=d99ea458807ec64ef6495ad0e73de17ca4adgxrqa&type=client&tsoh=d3d3LnNjaWVuY2VkaXJlY3QuY29t&rh=d3d3LnNjaWVuY2VkaXJlY3QuY29t&ua=13145a065455090b0b&rr=9e27fedbce05e5ed&cc=us) Endeavour, 48, no. 1 (March 2024): 100919
“[Hard Science, Soft Science: A Political History of a Disciplinary Array](/file_url/230),” History of Science, 60 (2022), 287-328.
“[The Rise and Rise of Creativity](https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-creativity-become-an-engine-of-economic-growth),” Aeon (12 October 2020)
“[Breakfast at Buck’s: Informality, Intimacy, and Innovation in Silicon Valley](/file_url/223),” Osiris, 35 (2020), 324-347.
“[Is There a Crisis of Truth?](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/is-there-a-crisis-of-truth/)” Los Angeles Review of Books (2 December 2019)
“[Making Art/Discovering Science](/file_url/219),” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 2, no. 2 (Fall 2018), 177-205.
“[Why Was ‘Custom a Second Nature’ in Early Modern Medicine?](/file_url/220)” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 93 (2019), 1-26.
“[Weber’s Science as a Vocation: A Moment in the History of ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’](/file_url/221),” Journal of Classical Sociology, 19 (2019), 290-307
“*Was Luigi Cornaro a Dietary Expert?*,” Journal of the History of Medicine 73 (2018), pp. 135-149.
“[*Invisible Science*](/file_url/204),” The Hedgehog Review, xviii, no. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 34-46.
“[*A Taste of Science: Making the Subjective Objective in the California Wine World*](/file_url/210),” Social Studies of Science, xlvi (2016), 436-460.
“[*Figures de scientifiques*](/file_url/205)” in Histoire des sciences et des savoirs, Vol. 3: Le siècle des technosciences (depuis 1914) (Paris: Le Seuil, 2015), pp. 27-45 (trans. Cyril Le Roy).
“[*Kuhn’s Structure: A Moment in Modern Naturalism*](/file_url/200),” in Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On, eds William J. Devlin and Alisa Bokulich, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 311 (Zürich: Springer-Verlag, 2015), pp. 11-21.
“[*The Virtue of Scientific Thinking*](https://bostonreview.net/steven-shapin-scientism-virtue),” Boston Review, xl, no. 1 (January-February 2015), 32-39
"[*You Are What You Eat’: Historical Changes in Ideas about Food and Identity*](/file_url/103),” Historical Research 87 (2014), pp. 377-392.
“[*The Tastes of Wine: Towards a Cultural History*](/file_url/104),” Rivista di Estetica n.s. 51 (2012), pp. 49-94.
“[*The Ivory Tower: The History of a Figure of Speech and Its Cultural Uses*](/file_url/105),” The British Journal for the History of Science 45 (2012), pp. 1-27.
*“*[*The Sciences of Subjectivity*](/file_url/106),” Social Studies of Science 42 (2012), pp. 170-184.
[*Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now*](/file_url/107), The Hans Rausing Lecture 2011, Salvia Småskrifter, No. 14 (Uppsala: Tryck Wikströms, for the University of Uppsala, 2011), pp. 47.
“[*Who’s an Authority on Nutrition Science?*](http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Detail.aspx?cid=4d87df6f-ae04-4c6d-86db-2f100895a8f7)” The New York Academy of Sciences Magazine (posted 21 October 2010)
“[*The Scientist in 2008*](/file_url/202)” SeedMagazine.com, (Posted November 20, 2008)
"[*Science and the Modern World*](/file_url/108)*,*" in The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 3rd Ed., eds Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 433-448.
"[*Expertise, Common Sense, and the Atkins Diet*](/file_url/109)*,*" in Public Science in Liberal Democracy, ed. Peter W. B. Phillips (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 174-193.
"[*The Man of Science*](/file_url/110),” in The Cambridge History of Science. Vol. 3: Early Modern Science, eds Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 179-191.
*"*[*Hyper-Professionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science*](/file_url/111),” Isis 96 (2005), pp. 238-243.
"[*Science*](/file_url/112)," in New Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, eds Tony Bennett, Larry Grossberg, and Meaghan Morris (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 314-317.
"[*Who is the Industrial Scientist? Commentary from Academic Sociology and from the Shop-Floor in the United States, ca. 1900-ca. 1970*](/file_url/113)," in The Science–Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications, Nobel Symposium 123, eds Karl Grandin, NinaWormbs, and Sven Widmalm (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2004), pp. 337-363.
"[*The Way We Trust Now: The Authority of Science and the Character of the Scientist*](/file_url/114)," in Pervez Hoodbhoy, Daniel Glaser, and Steven Shapin, Trust Me, I'm a Scientist (London: The British Council, 2004), pp. 42-63.
"[*The Image of the Man of Science*](/file_url/117)," in The Cambridge History of Science: Vol. 4. Eighteenth-Century Science, ed. Roy Porter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 159-183.
"[*Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-Century Dietetic Medicine*](/file_url/118)," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 77 (2003), pp. 263-297.
"[*How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England*](/file_url/119)," in Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene, ed. Charles E. Rosenberg (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), pp. 21-58.
"[*Proverbial Economies: How an Understanding of Some Linguistic and Social Features of Common Sense Can Throw Light on More Prestigious Bodies of Knowledge, Science For Example*](/file_url/120)," Social Studies of Science, 31 (2001), pp. 731-769.
"[*Who Was J. Robert Oppenheimer? Charisma and Complex Organization*](/file_url/121)," Social Studies of Science, 30 (2000), pp. 545-590 \[with Charles Thorpe\].
"[*Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies*](/file_url/122)," The British Journal for the History of Science, 33 (2000), pp. 131-154.
"[*How to be Antiscientific*](/file_url/123)," in The One Culture? A Conversation about Science, eds Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), pp. 99-115.
"[*Science and Prejudice*](/file_url/124)" (published in German as "*Vorurteilsfreie Wissenschaft und Gute Gesellschaft: Zur Geschichte eines Vorurteil*,"), Transit: Europäische Revue, 16 (Winter 1998/99), pp. 51-63.
"[*Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Talking about Truth*](/file_url/125)," Configurations, 7 (1999), pp. 1-14.
"[*The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge*](/file_url/126)," in Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge, eds Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 21-50.
"[*Placing the View from Nowhere: Historical and Sociological Problems in the Location of Science*](/file_url/127)," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, n.s. 23 (1998), pp. 5-12.
"[*Cordelia's Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science*](/file_url/128)," Perspectives on Science, 3 (1995), pp. 255-275.
"[*Here and Everywhere: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge*](/file_url/129)," Annual Review of Sociology, 21 (1995), pp. 289-321.
"[*Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate*](/file_url/130)," History of Science, 30 (1992), pp. 333-369.
"[*A Scholar and a Gentleman: The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Early Modern England*](/file_url/131)," History of Science, 24 (1991), pp. 279-327.
"[*The Mind is Its Own Place: Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-Century England*](/file_url/132)," Science in Context, 4 (1991), pp. 191-218.
"[*Science and the Public*](/file_url/133)," in Companion to the History of Modern Science, eds R. C. Olby et al. (London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 990-1007.
"[*The Invisible Technician*](/file_url/134)," American Scientist, 77 (November-December 1989), pp. 554-563.
"[*Who was Robert Hooke?*](/file_url/135)" in Robert Hooke: New Studies, eds Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer (Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1989), pp. 253-285.
"[*Understanding the Merton Thesis*](/file_url/136),” Isis 79 (1988), pp. 594-605.
"[*House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England*](/file_url/137)," Isis, 77 (1988), pp. 373-404.
"[*Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle’s Literary Technology*](/file_url/203)," Social Studies of Science 14 (1984), 481-520.
"[*History of Science and Its Sociological Reconstructions*](/file_url/138)," History of Science, 20 (1982), pp. 157-211.
"[*Of Gods and Kings: Natural Philosophy and Politics in the Leibniz-Clarke Disputes*](/file_url/139),” Isis 77 (1981), pp. 187-215.
"[*The Politics of Observation: Cerebral Anatomy and Social Interests in the Edinburgh Phrenology Disputes*](/file_url/140)," in On the Margins of Science: The Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge, ed. Roy Wallis, Sociological Review Monographs, vol. xxvii (Keele: Keele University Press, 1979), pp. 139-178.
"[*Science, Nature, and Control: Interpreting Mechanics' Institutes*](/file_url/141)," Social Studies of Science, 7 (1977), pp. 31-74 \[with Barry Barnes\].
"[*Head and Hand: Rhetorical Resources in British Pedagogical Writing, 1770-1850*](/file_url/142)," Oxford Review of Education, 2 (1976), pp. 231-254 \[with Barry Barnes\].
## The New Yorker
*“*[*Seeing the Spectrum*](/file_url/211)*”* \[on autism\], The New Yorker (25 January 2016), pp. 65-69.
“[*The Man Who Forgot Everything*](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/henry-gustav-molaison-the-man-who-forgot-everything.html)” (on amnesia), [The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/henry-gustav-molaison-the-man-who-forgot-everything.html) (15 October 2013).
"[*Cancer World*](/file_url/143)" (on the history of the disease), The New Yorker (8 November 2010), pp. 78-83.
"[*Man With a Plan*](/file_url/144)" (on Herbert Spencer), The New Yorker (13 August 2007), pp. 75-79.
"[*What Else Is New?*](/file_url/145)" (on the history of technology), The New Yorker (14 May 2007), pp. 144-148.
"[*Vegetable Love*](/file_url/146)" (on the history of vegetarianism), The New Yorker (22 January 2007), pp. 80-84.
"[*Sick City*](/file_url/147)" (on cholera and the history of epidemiology), The New Yorker (6 November 2006), pp. 110-115.
"[Paradise Sold](/file_url/148)" (on the politics of eating), The New Yorker (15 May 2006), pp. 84-88.
"[*Eat and Run*](/file_url/149)*"* (on obesity), The New Yorker (16 January 2006), pp. 76-82.
"[*Liquid Assets*](/file_url/150)" (on the history of drinking), The New Yorker (1 August 2005), pp. 80-82.
"[*Cleanup Hitters*](/file_url/151)" (on steroids), The New Yorker (18 April 2005), pp. 191-194.
## London Review of Books
[“Heart, Head, Life, Fate”](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/steven-shapin/heart-head-life-fate) \[Alison Bashford, The Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic\], London Review of Books, 48, no. 5 (19 March 2026), pp. 21-23.
[“Through the Trapdoor”](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n11/steven-shapin/through-the-trapdoor) \[Patchen Barss, The Impossible Man \[biography of Roger Penrose\], London Review of Books, 47, no. 11 (26 June 2025), pp. 15-18.
[“Story of Eau” ](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/steven-shapin/story-of-eau)\[Christy Spackman, The Taste of Water\], London Review of Books, 46, no. 13 (4 July 2024), pp. 29-32.
[“Paradigms Gone Wild”](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n07/steven-shapin/paradigms-gone-wild) \[T. S. Kuhn, Last Writings\], London Review of Books, 45, no. 7 (30 March 2023), pp. 27-32.
"[*Loose Talk*](/file_url/228)" \[Alex Wellerstein, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States\], London Review of Books, Vol. 43 No. 21 (4 November 2021).
“[*Drain the Swamps*](/file_url/224)” \[Timothy Winegard, The Mosquito\], London Review of Books, 42, no. 11 (4 June 2020), pp. 52-56.
“[*Keep Him as a Curiosity*](/file_url/225)” \[Toby Musgrave, The Multifarious Mr. Banks\], London Review of Books, 42, no. 16 (13 August 2020), pp. 4-5, 7-8, 10.
“[*The Cinderella Molecule*](/file_url/222),” \[Venki Ramakrishnan, Gene Machine\], London Review of Books, 41, no. 2 (24 January 2019), pp. 19-20.
*"*[*Think Like a Neutron*](/file_url/212)” \[David Schwartz, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age\], London Review of Books, 40, no. 10 (10 May 2018), pp. 13-15.
“[*Bare Bones*](/file_url/216)” \[Juan Pimentel, The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium\], London Review of Books, 40, no. 5 (8 March 2018), pp. 25-26.
“[*The Superhuman Upgrade*](/file_url/213)” \[Yuval Harari, Homo Deus\], London Review of Books, 39, no. 14 (13 July 2017), pp. 29-31.
“[*More than Machines*](/file_url/214)” \[Jessica Riskin, The Restless Clock\], London Review of Books, 38, no. 23 (1 December 2016), pp. 15-20.
“[*What Do You Mean by a Lie?*](/file_url/215)” \[Nick Hopwood, Haeckel’s Embryos\], London Review of Books, 38, no. 9 (5 May 2016), pp. 35-37.
“[*Confusion of Tongues*](/file_url/206)” \[Michael Gordin, Scientific Babel\], London Review of Books, 37, no. 23 (3 December 2015), pp. 23-26.
"[*Pretense for Prattle*](/file_url/201)" \[Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World\] London Review of Books, 37 no. 15 (30 July 2015), pp. 17-18
“[*Libel on the Human Race*](/file_url/152)” \[Robert Mayhew, Malthus\], London Review of Books, 36, no. 11 (5 June 2014), pp. 26-29.
“[*How Worried Should We Be?*](/file_url/153)” \[Eric Schlosser, Command and Control\], London Review of Books, 36, no. 2 (23 January 2014), pp. 20-23.
“[*Fat Man*](/file_url/154)” \[Graham Farmelo, Churchill’s Bomb\], London Review of Books, 35, no. 18 (26 September 2013), pp. 36-39.
“[*Catastrophism*](/file_url/155)” \[Michael Gordin, The Pseudoscience Wars\], London Review of Books, 34, no. 21 (8 November 2012), pp. 35-38.
"[*Plus or Minus One Ear*](/file_url/156)" \[Robert Crease, World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement\], London Review of Books, 34, no. 16 (30 August 2012), pp. 8-10.
“[An Example of the Good Life](/file_url/157)” \[Mary Jo Nye, Michael Polanyi and His Generation\], London Review of Books, 33, no. 24 (15 December 2011), pp. 23-25.
“[*Gutted*](/file_url/158)” \[Ian Miller, A Modern History of the Stomach\], London Review of Books, 33, no. 13 (30 June 2011), pp. 15-17.
“[*What’s Your Dust Worth?*](/file_url/159)” \[Norman Cantor, After We Die\], London Review of Books, 33, no. 8 (14 April 2011), pp. 10-12.
"[Good Housekeeping](/file_url/160)" \[Ted McCormick, William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic\], London Review of Books, 33, no. 2 (20 January 2011), pp. 17-19.
“[*Uncle of the Bomb*](/file_url/161)” \[K. C. Cole, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens \[on Frank Oppenheimer\], London Review of Books, 32, no. 18 (23 September 2010), pp. 12-14.
“[*Down to the Last Cream Puff*](/file_url/162)” \[Michael Steinberger, Au Revoir to All That\], London Review of Books, 32, no. 15 (5 August 2010), pp. 3-6.
"[*The Darwin Show*](/file_url/163)" \[An extended essay on the events of “Darwin Year” 2009\], London Review of Books, 32, no. 1 (7 January 2010), pp. 3, 5-7.
"[*Against the Pussyfoots*](/file_url/164)" \[George Saintsbury, Notes on a Cellar-Book\], London Review of Books, 31, no. 17 (10 September 2009), pp. 32-33.
"[*Abishag's Revenge*](/file_url/165)" \[D. B. Haycock, Mortal Coil\], London Review of Books, 31, no. 6 (26 March 2009), pp. 29-31.
"[*Species Mongers*](/file_url/166)" \[J. Endersby, Imperial Nature\], London Review of Books, 30, no. 22 (20 November 2008), pp. 21-23.
"[*I’m a Surfer*](/file_url/167)" \[J. Craig Venter, A Life Decoded\], London Review of Books, 30, no. 6 (20 March 2008), pp. 5-8.
*"*[*Floating Medicine Chests*](/file_url/168)*"* \[H. Cook, Matters of Exchange\], London Review of Books, 30, no. 3 (7 February 2008), pp. 30-31.
*"*[*Possessed by the Idols*](/file_url/169)*"* \[D. Wootton, Bad Medicine\], London Review of Books, 28, no. 23 (30 November 2006), pp. 31-33.
*"*[*When Men Started Doing It*](/file_url/170)*"* \[B. Buford, Heat\], London Review of Books, 28, no. 16 (17 August 2006), pp. 3-5.
*"*[*At the Amsterdam*](/file_url/171)*"* \[B. Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee and M. Ellis, Coffee: A Cultural History\], London Review of Books, 28, no. 8 (20 April 2006), pp. 12-14.
*"*[*Tod aus Luft*](/file_url/172)*"* \[D. Charles, Between Genius and Genocide\], London Review of Books, 28, no. 2 (26 January 2006), pp. 7-8.
*"*[*What Did You Expect?*](/file_url/173)" \[A. Smith, Moondust\], London Review of Books, 27, no. 17 (1 September 2005), pp. 31-32.
*"*[*Milk and Lemon*](/file_url/174)*"* \[R. Feynman, Letters\], London Review of Books, 27, no. 13 (7 July 2005), pp. 10-13.
*"*[*Hedonistic Fruit Bombs*](/file_url/175)*"* \[R. Parker, Bordeaux, Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide and J. Nossiter, Mondovino\], London Review of Books, 27, no.3 (3 February 2005), pp. 30-32.
*"*[*The Great Neurotic Art*](/file_url/176)*"* \[R. Atkins, Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution and others\], London Review of Books, 27, no. 15 (5 August 2004), pp. 16-18.
*"*[*Talking with Alfred*](/file_url/177)*"* \[J. Conant, Tuxedo Park\], London Review of Books, 27, no. 8 (15 April 2004), pp. 20-22.
*"*[*Cheese and Late Modernity*](/file_url/178)*"* \[P. Boisard, Camembert: A National Myth\], London Review of Books, 25, no. 22 (20 November 2003), pp. 11-12, 14-15.
*"*[*Ivory Trade*](/file_url/179)*"* \[D. Bok, Universities in the Marketplace and H. Etzkowitz, MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science\], London Review of Books, 25, no. 17 (11 September 2003), pp. 15-19.
*"*[*Rough Trade*](/file_url/180)*"* \[S. Inwood, The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke\], London Review of Books, 25, no. 5 (6 March 2003), pp. 14-16.
*"*[*One Peculiar Nut*](/file_url/181)*"* \[R. Watson, Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes\], London Review of Books, 25, no. 2 (23 January 2003), pp. 17-18.
*"*[*Barbecue of the Vanities*](/file_url/182)*"* \[K. Albala, Eating Right in the Renaissance and M. Nestle, Food Politics\], London Review of Books, 29, no. 16 (22 August 2002), pp. 21-23.
*"*[*Megaton Man*](/file_url/183)" \[E. Teller, Memoirs\], London Review of Books, 29, no. 8 (25 April 2002), pp. 18-20.
*"*[*Dear Prudence*](/file_url/184)*"* \[S. Toulmin, Return to Reason\], London Review of Books, 29, no. 2 (24 January 2002), pp. 25-27.
*"*[*Guests in the President’s House*](/file_url/185)*"* \[D. Greenberg, Science, Money, and Politics\], London Review of Books, 23, no. 20 (18 October 2001), pp. 3, 6-7.
*"*[*A Man’s Man’s World*](/file_url/186)*"* \[A. Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential\], London Review of Books, 22, no. 23 (30 November 2000), pp. 19-20.
*"*[*Don’t Let That Crybaby in Here Again*](/file_url/187)*"* \[S. Schweber, In the Shadow of the Bomb and M. Palevsky, Atomic Fragments\], London Review of Books, 22, no. 17 (7 September 2000), pp. 15-16.
"[*Fat is a Manifest Tissue*](/file_url/188)" \[A. Guerrini, Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment\], London Review of Books, 22, no. 15 (10 August 2000), pp.34-35.
"[*Trust Me*](/file_url/189)" \[P. Rabinow, French DNA\], London Review of Books, 22, no. 9 (27 April 2000), pp. 15-17.
"[*Scientific Antlers*](/file_url/190)" \[D. Kevles, The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character\], London Review of Books, 21 No. 5 (4 March 1999), pp. 27-28.
*"*[*Nobel Savage*](/file_url/191)*"* \[K. Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field\], London Review of Books, 21, no. 13 (1 July 1999), pp. 17-18.
“[*Sailing Scientist*](/file_url/192)” \[A. Cook, Edmond Halley\], London Review of Books, 20, no. 13 (2 July 1998), pp. 12-13.
## Other Essays
“[A Theorist of (Not Quite) Everything](/file_url/227)” \[David Cahan, Helmholtz: A Life in Science\], New York Review of Books, 66, no. 15 (10 October 2019), pp. 29-31.
[*Château Neuro*](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/chateau-neuro)” \[Gordon Shepherd, Neuroenology}, Los Angeles Review of Books (30 December 2016).
“[*Flights of Fancy*](/file_url/115)” \[Richard Holmes, Falling Upwards\], Harper’s Magazine, 328, no. 1964 (January 2014), pp. 82-88.
“[*Enlightenment: It’s What’s for Dinner*](http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1477),” \[E. C. Spary, Eating the Enlightenment\], [Los Angeles Review of Books](http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1477) (10 March 2013).
“[The Tines They are A-changin’: A History of Table Technology](/file_url/116)” \[Bee Wilson, Consider the Fork\], Harper’s Magazine, 326, no. 1952 (January 2013), pp. 68-72.
“[People Who Eat People](http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=383&fulltext=1&media=)” \[Catalin Avramescu, An Intellectual History of Cannibalism\], [Los Angeles Review of Books](http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=383&fulltext=1&media=) (7 March 2012).
##
Selected Interviews
[*An Interview with Steven Shapin*](http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/750248in.html)" \[in connection with The Scientific Life\]” University of Chicago Press (2008),
*How to Think about Science*” [Part 1](http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-to-think-about-science-part-1-1.464989), [Part 16](http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-to-think-about-science-part-16-1.464997) \[interviews with Paul Kennedy for Canadian Broadcasting Company ‘Ideas’ series (2012),/span>
[*Wicked Fat: Harvard Historian of Science Steven Shapin on the Nutrition Wars*](http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/issues/food-and-farming/wicked-fat)”: interview on dietary science with The Breakthrough Institute, 9 March 2015