INTRODUCTION: Doing What Comes Naturally,

Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal

PART ONE: VALUES,

1: Measuring Authority, Authoritative Measures: Hesiod's Works and Days,

Laura M. Slatkin

2: Nature in Person: Medieval and Renaissance Allegories and Emblems,

Katharine Park

3: Burning The Fable of the Bees: The Incendiary Authority of Nature,

Danielle Allen

4: Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment,

Lorraine Daston

5: The Erotic Authority of Nature: Science, Art, and the Female during Goethe's Italian Journey,

Robert J. Richards

6: Nature and Bildung: Pedagogical Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany,

Eckhardt Fuchs

7: Economics, Ecology, and the Value of Nature,

Matt Price

PART TWO : NECESSITY AND FREEDOM,

8: Trouble in the Earthly Paradise: The Regime of Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture

Joan Cadden

9: Nature on Trial: Acts "Against Nature' in the Law Courts of Early Modern Germany and Switzerland,

Helmut Puff

10: Onanism, Enlightenment Medicine, and the Immanent Justice of Nature,

Fernando Vidal

11: Ants and the Nature of Nature in Auguste Forel, Erich Wasmann, and William Morton Wheeler,

A.J. Lustig

12: "To Become As One Dead": Nature and the Political Subject in Modern Japan,

Julia Adeney Thomas

13: Liberation through Control in the Body Politics of U.S. Radical Feminism,

Michelle Murphy

PART THREE: BOUNDARIES,

14: Complexio/Complexion: Categorizing Individual Natures, 1250-1600,

Valentin Groebner

15: Human Experimentation in the Eighteenth Century: Natural Boundaries and Valid Testing,

Londa Schiebinger

16: Nature and Nation in Chinese Political Thought: The National Essence Circle in Early-Twentieth-Century China,

Fa-ti Fan

17: When Pollen Became Poison: A Cultural Geography of Ragweed in America,

Gregg Mitman

18: Three Roots of Human Recency: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz,

Robert N. Proctor

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS,

INDEX,