Jobin M. Kanjirakkat is Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hyderabad, India. Gordon McOuat is Professor of Humanities at University of King's College, Halifax, Canada, and Director of Situating Science, Canadian Strategic Knowledge Cluster for the Humanities and Social Studies. Sundar Sarukkai is Professor and Director at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, Manipal, India.

• Introduction 1 Post-humanist ‘narratives of (non-)nature’ and the sciences 2 Nature, body and woman: an Indian perspective on value dualisms 3 Revealed truth and homosexuality in the West: Christianity and science in Foucaultian perspective 4 Feminist epistemology and postcolonial science studies 5 Is food natural or cultural? Food, body and the mind in Indian medical traditions 6 Placing and moving knowledge: East and West, North and South 7 ‘Why did exchange of knowledge across Eurasia generate a Scientific Revolution in the West?’ 8 Nineteenth-century science and Western materialisms 9 Eastern mathematics, Western mathematics: shall the Twain ever meet? 10 On the nature of mathematics and scientific knowledge in Indian tradition 11 See what I mean? On developing norms for the production and publication of scientific images 12 The ‘relocation’ of technology between East and West: stationary steam engines and steamboats in India in the early nineteenth century 13 The production and distribution of pharmaceutical clinical trial knowledge: case studies in the political economy of scientific knowledge

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