An edition of The historiography of science, technology and medicine
(2006)
The historiography of science, technology and medicine
writing recent history
by Ronald Edmund Doel and Thomas Söderqvist
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This book of essays presents insightful historical analyses of issues in the sciences, in technology and in medicine our contemporary world is confronting. It is about what we know--and don't yet know--about science, technology, and medicine in the recent past, and addresses new methods that historians can use to explore these developments. For historians, philosophers, and sociologistis of science, technology and medicine, the book will be a valuable guide on how to make their discipline more relevant by their researches and in their teaching.
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The historiography of science, technology and medicine: writing recent history
2006, Routledge
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Historiography of Science, Technology and Medicine: Writing Recent Science (Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
November 1, 2006, Routledge
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Table of Contents
Introduction: what we know, what we don't and why it matters
Where are we now? the challenges of writing recent science
Why science writers should forget Carl Sagan and read Thomas Kuhn: on the troubled conscience of a journalist
The history of now: reflections on being a "contemporary archivist"
Whose history? ethics, lawsuits, national security, and the writing of contemporary history
The politics of commissioned histories (revisited)
From behind the fence: threading the labyrinths of classified historical research
On ethics, scientists, and democracy: writing the history of Eugenic sterilization
Witnesses to history: issues in biography and ethics
What's the use of writing lives of recent scientists?
Scholarship as self-knowledge: a case study
Secrecy, politics, and science: probing the meaning of the cold war
The politics of phosphorus-32: a cold war fable based on fact
Secrecy and science revisited: from politics to historical practice and back
History detectives: new ways of approaching modern science, medicine, and technology
The conflict of memories and documents: dilemmas and pragmatics of oral history
Reading photographs: photographs as evidence in writing the history of modern science
New voices: omitted and novel perspectives
What we still don't know about south-north technoscientific exchange: north-centrism, scientific diffusion and the social studies of science
Witnessing the witnesses: potentials and pitfalls of the witness seminar in the history of twentieth century medicine
The mutt historian: the perils and opportunities of doing history of science on-line.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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