[Commlist] new book: Doctor Who and Science

*/Doctor Who/** and Science*

Essays on Ideas, Identities and Ideologies in the Series

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Science has always been part of /Doctor Who/. The first episode featured 
scenes in a science laboratory and a science teacher, and the 2020 
season’s finale highlighted a scientist’s key role in Time Lord history. 
Hundreds of scientific characters, settings, inventions, and ethical 
dilemmas populated the years in between. Behind the scenes, /Doctor 
Who/‘s original remit was to teach children about science, and in the 
1960s it even had a scientific advisor.

This is the first book to explore this scientific landscape from a broad 
spectrum of research fields: from astronomy, genetics, linguistics, 
computing, history, sociology and science communication through gender, 
media and literature studies. Contributors ask: What sort of scientist 
is the Doctor? How might the TARDIS translation circuit and regeneration 
work? Did the Doctor change sex or gender when regenerating into Jodie 
Whittaker? How do /Doctor Who/‘s depictions of the Moon and other 
planets compare to the real universe? Why was the program obsessed with 
energy in the 1960s and 1970s, Victorian scientists and sciences then 
and now, or with dinosaurs at any time? Do characters like Missy and the 
Rani make good scientist role models? How do /Doctor Who/ technical 
manuals and public lectures shape public ideas about science?

Who’s Planet Looks Like Home?
J.J. Eldridge 18
Who’s Moon
Elizabeth R. Stanway 33
E=mc3: Doctor Who and Energy
Marcus K. Harmes 48
Translation by TARDIS: Exploring the Science Behind Multilingual 
Communication in Doctor Who
Mark Halley and Lynne Bowker 62
“I don’t want to go”: How Does Regeneration Work in Doctor Who?
Natalie Ring 78
Did the Doctor Change Sex or Change Gender? Navigating the Sex and 
Gender Divide in Doctor Who
Mike Stack 94
Candyfloss, Lego and Hope: What Sort of Scientist Is Jodie Whittaker’s 
Doctor?
Lindy A. Orthia and Vanessa de Kauwe 110
The Mad Scientist Wore Prada: Female Frankensteins in the Universe of 
Doctor Who
Kristine Larsen 127
Maxtible’s Mirrors: Victorian Science in ­Classic-Era Doctor Who
Marcus K. Harmes and Richard Scully 142
The Victorians Sleeping in Our Minds: Victorian Scientific Enquiry in 
Old and New Series Doctor Who
Catriona Mills 157
Doctor Who and the Dinosaurs: Spectacle, Monstrosity, Melodrama and 
Ideology in Dinosaur Mediations
Ross Garner 173
The Use and Abuse of Scientific Writing in Doctor Who’s Epistolary Paratexts
Tonguç İbrahim Sezen 190
The Science of Doctor Who
Mark Erickson 205
Concluding Remarks: Science in Twenties Doctor Who
Lindy A. Orthia and Marcus K. Harmes 221

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