The volume provides a fresh look at the nature of scientific collaboration in its rigorous examination of a broad range of partnerships, including homosexual and non-traditional relationships, across the disciplines and over a period of two centuries

The book newly analyzes the productive infrastructure of modern science, with particular attention to discipline-formation within collaborative contexts outside conventional places like the academy

The chapters illuminate key advances in chemistry, physics, genetics, and sociology in terms of collaborative research practices

The volume contributes to new trends in science studies in its attention to the visual and textual cultures of science, geographies of science, and class and gender dynamics

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Foreword, by S.G. Kohlstedt - 1. Introduction.- 2. The Making of a Bestseller: Alexander and Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, by J.-J. Dreifuss and N.T. Sigrist. - 3. 'Not merely wifely devotion': Collaborating in the Construction of Science at Terling Place, by D.L. Opitz. - 4. The Mystery of the Nobel Laureate and His Vanishing Wife, by J. Harvey. - 5. Married for Science, Divorced for Love: Success and Failure in the Collaboration between Astrid Cleve and Hans von Euler-Chelpin, by K. Espmark and C. Nordlund. - 6. Ida and Walter Noddack through Better and Worse: An Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Chemistry, by B. Van Tiggelen and A. Lykknes. - 7. A Model Collaborative Couple in Genetics: Anna Rachel Whiting and Phineas Westcott Whiting's Study of Sex Determination in Habrobracon, by M.L. Richmond. - 8. Social Reform Collaboration and Gendered Academization: Three Swedish Social Science Couples at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by P. Wisselgren. - 9. Social Science Couples in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Gender Divisions in Work and Marriage, by E.J. Yeo. - 10. Co-operative Comradeships versus Same-Sex Partnerships: Historicizing Collaboration among Homosexual Couples in the Sciences, by D.L. Opitz - Epilogue: Collaborative Couples - Past, Present and Future, by N.G. Slack. - Select Bibliography.- Contributor Biographies.- Index.