The historiography of science, technology and medicine
Subtitle: writing recent history
By: edited by Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist.
Contributors: Doel, Ronald Edmund.; Söderqvist, Thomas.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Science -- Historiography; Technology -- Historiography; Medicine -- Historiography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: what we know, what we don't and why it matters; title: Where are we now? the challenges of writing recent science; title: Why science writers should forget Carl Sagan and read Thomas Kuhn: on the troubled conscience of a journalist; title: The history of now: reflections on being a "contemporary archivist"; title: Whose history? ethics, lawsuits, national security, and the writing of contemporary history; title: The politics of commissioned histories (revisited); title: From behind the fence: threading the labyrinths of classified historical research; title: On ethics, scientists, and democracy: writing the history of Eugenic sterilization; title: Witnesses to history: issues in biography and ethics; title: What's the use of writing lives of recent scientists?; title: Scholarship as self-knowledge: a case study; title: Secrecy, politics, and science: probing the meaning of the cold war; title: The politics of phosphorus-32: a cold war fable based on fact; title: Secrecy and science revisited: from politics to historical practice and back; title: History detectives: new ways of approaching modern science, medicine, and technology; title: The conflict of memories and documents: dilemmas and pragmatics of oral history; title: Reading photographs: photographs as evidence in writing the history of modern science; title: New voices: omitted and novel perspectives; title: What we still don't know about south-north technoscientific exchange: north-centrism, scientific diffusion and the social studies of science; title: Witnessing the witnesses: potentials and pitfalls of the witness seminar in the history of twentieth century medicine; title: The mutt historian: the perils and opportunities of doing history of science on-line.