History of Biology : Current Approaches and Future Trends

Two Co-Editors in Chief of the Journal of the History of Biology reflect on their field, from its start within the history and philosophy of science and the Darwin Industry to more recent work on women and gender in science and in interdisciplinary fields such as environmental history, animal studies, race and colonialism, medical humanities, and history of technology. They argue that five generations of work in JHB have marked some important transitions, with inflection points in research foci and training models that continue to shape the discipline's intellectual approaches and trends. [Publisher's text]