The historiography of contemporary science technology and medicine : writing recent science Introduction : what we know what we dont 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 is 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 : neglected and novel perspectives What we still dont 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