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BSHS Pickstone Prize 2024 Shortlist Announced

The British Society for the History of Science is pleased to report that the judging panel has shortlisted six outstanding books for the BSHS Pickstone Prize for 2024.

The prize is given to the best academic book published in English during the past two years in history of science, medicine and technology. The winner will be announced at the Annual Conference of the BSHS in Aberystwyth, 10-13 July 2024.

Matthew Daniel Eddy
Matthew Daniel Eddy
Media and the Mind. Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700 – 1830
(Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2022)
Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik
A History of Scientific Journals
Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015

(London: UCL Press, 2022)
Projit Bihari Mukharji
Brown Skins, White Coats
Race Science in India, 1920–66

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Gregory Radick
Disputed Inheritance
The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023)
Chris Sandal-Wilson
Mandatory Madness
Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Alexander Statman
A Global Enlightenment
Western Progress and Chinese Science

(Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2023)
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