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Author | : Thomas Söderquist |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135851670 |
More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves.
Author | : Ronald E. Doel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134482973 |
Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography and methodology of recent and contemporary science, this book reviews the problems facing historians of technology, contemporary science and medicine and explores new ways forward.
Author | : Ronald Edmund Doel |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415272940 |
Brings togeteher essays on the history, historiography and methodology of recent and contemporary science to review the problems facing historians of contemporary science, technology and medicine and to explore new ways forward.
Author | : James Edward McClellan |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801883590 |
Author | : Alan Kam Leung Chan |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2002-07-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 981448864X |
Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations. It is the third in a series of books growing out of the tri-annual International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, the largest and most prestigious gathering of scholars in the field. The current volume broadens the field's traditional focus on China to include path-breaking work on Vietnam, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and even the transmission of Asian science and technology to Europe and the United States. Topics covered include: traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino medicines; Chinese astronomy; Japanese earthquakes; science and technology policy; architecture; the digital revolution; and much else.
Author | : Adam R. Shapiro |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 022602959X |
In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at a crucial moment in the history of biology textbook publishing, education reform in Tennessee, and progressive school reform across the country. He places the trial in this broad context—alongside American Protestant antievolution sentiment—and in doing so sheds new light on the trial and the historical relationship of science and religion in America. For the first time we see how religious objections to evolution became a prevailing concern to the American textbook industry even before the Scopes trial began. Shapiro explores both the development of biology textbooks leading up to the trial and the ways in which the textbook industry created new books and presented them as “responses” to the trial. Today, the controversy continues over textbook warning labels, making Shapiro’s study—particularly as it plays out in one of America’s most famous trials—an original contribution to a timely discussion.
Author | : Eric G. Swedin |
Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-03-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1851095241 |
An introductory A-Z resource detailing the scientific achievements of the contemporary world and analyzing the key scientific trends, discoveries, and personalities of the modern age.
Author | : Jill A. Fisher |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0813550467 |
How does contemporary science contribute to our understanding about what it means to be women or men? What are the social implications of scientific claims about differences between "male" and "female" brains, hormones, and genes? How does culture influence scientific and medical research and its findings about human sexuality, especially so-called normal and deviant desires and behaviors? Gender and the Science of Difference examines how contemporary science shapes and is shaped by gender ideals and images. Prior scholarship has illustrated how past cultures of science were infused with patriarchal norms and values that influenced the kinds of research that was conducted and the interpretation of findings about differences between men and women. This interdisciplinary volume presents empirical inquiries into today's science, including examples of gendered scientific inquiry and medical interventions and research. It analyzes how scientific and medical knowledge produces gender norms through an emphasis on sex differences, and includes both U.S. and non-U.S. cases and examples.
Author | : Till Düppe |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351688219 |
In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This has opened up new questions regarding the utilization of sources, choice of method, narrative styles, and ethical issues, as well as a new awareness of the historian’s place, role, and task. This book brings together leading contributors to provide, for the first time, a methodological overview of the historiography of economics. Emphasising the quality of the scholarship of recent decades, the book seeks to provide research tools for future historians of economic thought, as well as to any historians of social science with an interest in historiographic issues.
Author | : James Poskett |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2022-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226820645 |
Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.