Karen Darling
Senior Editor
E-mail: kdarling@press.uchicago.edu
Subjects: Science studies (history, philosophy, and social studies of science, medicine, and technology)
Series: science•culture, Synthesis
I am responsible for book acquisitions in science studies. This encompasses the history, philosophy, and social studies of science, medicine, and technology. My academic background is principally in philosophy, specifically the philosophy of science which I studied at Northwestern University with Arthur Fine and David Hull (PhD, 2002). As Senior Editor, I develop a portfolio of projects that showcase the diversity and depth of the fields for which I'm responsible. This includes new manuscripts, translations, and copublications about the natural and human sciences, medicine, and technology for a variety of audiences, including general readers, specialists, and students. The following selection of recent acquisitions highlight some of this diversity in form and content: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 50th Anniversary Edition; The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination; Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science; After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America; The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China; Methods and Models: A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science; Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy; Science in the Age of Computer Simulation; Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice; and Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century. I also encourage new contributions to two Press series: science.culture, a trade series edited by Adrian Johns, and Synthesis, a more recently initiated series in the history of chemistry, broadly construed.
I am ably assisted by Abby Collier, assistant editor, and Amy Krynak, editorial associate.
