MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aQ127.U6$bT37 1996
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245 00 $aTechnical knowledge in American culture :$bscience, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s /$cedited by Hamilton Cravens, Alan I. Marcus, and David M. Katzman.
260 $aTuscaloosa :$bUniversity of Alabama Press,$cc1996.
300 $aviii, 265 p. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aHistory of American science and technology series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-252) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : technical knowledge in American culture : an analysis / Hamilton Cravens and Alan I. Marcus -- The Ohio Mechanic's Institute : the challenge of incivility in the the Democratic Republic / Judith Spraul-Schmidt -- The American career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on chemistry, 1806-1853 / M. Susan Lindee -- From individual practitioner to regular physician : Cincinnati Medical Societies and the problem of definition among mid-nineteenth-century Americans / Alan I. Marcus -- Diagnosing unnatural motherhood : nineteenth-century physicians and "puerperal insanity" / Nancy M. Theriot -- The inventor of the mustache cup : James Emerson and populist technology, 1870-1900 / Edwin T. Layton -- Race-ism and the city : the young Du Bois and the role of place in social theory, 1893-1901 / Zane L. Miller -- The German-American science of racial nutrition, 1870-1920 ; The case of the manufactured morons : science and social policy in two eras, 1934-1966 / Hamilton Cravens -- Responding to the airplane : urban rivalry, metropolitan regionalism, and airport development in Dallas, 1927-1965 / Robert B. Fairbanks -- Unanticipated aftertaste : cancer, the role of science, and the question of DES beef in late twentieth-century American culture / Alan I. Marcus.
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700 1 $aCravens, Hamilton.
700 1 $aMarcus, Alan I.,$d1949-
700 1 $aKatzman, David M.
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