Conference on Critical Problems and Research Frontiers in History of Science and History of Technology
Subtitle: [proceedings] : 30 October--3 November 1991, Madison Wisconsin
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Subjects: Science; History; Congresses; Technology
Table of contents: title: Science and technology as intersecting socio-cognitive worlds / Eda Kranakis; title: Histories of science and their technologies / Carl Mitcham; title: Determinism and indeterminacy in the history of technology / Philip Scranton; title: Race and universalism in the American chemistry community, 1916-1945 / Willie Pearson, Jr.; title: Affinities and elisions : what is "ancient science"?; title: Should scientists write history of science? / Stephen Brush; title: The cognitive sciences and the history of science / Nancy Nersessian; title: Needs and opportunities of the history of East Asian science / Shigeru Nakayama; title: Science and government in the United States since 1945 / Nathan Reingold; title: The modern experimental life sciences : historiographic needs and opportunities / Daniel Kevles & Gerald Geison / Critical problems in the history of Medieval science : the case of science and religion / David Lindberg; title: The history and sociology of science as seen ghrough the externalism-internalism debate / Steven Shapin; title: Women and technology / Kathleen Ochs; title: Women in science : historical perspectives / Sally Kohlstedt; title: The dynamics of productive activity / Charles Keller; title: Representing technical knowledge / Steven Lubar; title: The sources of technological innovation in the armed forces / Daniel Headrick; title: On the history of military technology : past accomplishments, present problems, future directions / Barton Hacker; title: Engineering a better environment / Jeffrey Stine; title: The scientific revolution : the problem of visual authority / William Ashworth, Jr.; title: Philosophy of science and history of science / Thomas Nickles; title: History of mathematics and history of science / Joan Richards; title: History of science and history of medicine / John Warner; title: The moral economy of science / Lorraine Daston; title: The history of the exact sciences / Noel Serdlow; title: Ratings! Earth later! Media depiction of environmental issues / Michael Smith.