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17Matthew Ramsay, Professional and Popular Medicine in France, 1770–1830. The Social World of Medical Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xvii + 406. ISBN 0-521-30517-9. £35 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 26 (3): 365-365. 1993.
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27How might we map the cultural fields of science? Politics and organisms in restoration FranceHistory of Science 37 (117): 347-364. 1999.
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11Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne , Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. vii+229. ISBN 0-521-43268-5. £35.00, $59.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 31 (1): 63-102. 1998.
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15Working Knowledges Before and After circa 1800Isis 98 (3): 489-516. 2007.ABSTRACT Historians of science, inasmuch as they are concerned with knowledges and practices rather than institutions, have tended of late to focus on case studies of common processes such as experiment and publication. In so doing, they tend to treat science as a single category, with various local instantiations. Or, alternatively, they relate cases to their specific local contexts. In neither approach do the cases or their contexts build easily into broader histories, reconstructing changing …Read more
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7Sketching Together the Modern Histories of Science, Technology, and MedicineIsis 102 (1): 123-133. 2011.ABSTRACT This essay explores ways to “write together” the awkwardly jointed histories of “science” and “medicine”—but it also includes other “arts” (in the old sense) and technologies. It draws especially on the historiography of medicine, but I try to use terms that are applicable across all of science, technology, and medicine (STM). I stress the variety of knowledges and practices in play at any time and the ways in which the ensembles change. I focus on the various relations of “science” and…Read more
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7Observations on observations (review)British Journal for the History of Science 45 (4): 671-675. 2012.
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6Medical Education in the Age of Improvement: Edinburgh Students and Apprentices, 1760-1826 by Lisa Rosner (review)Isis 84 805-805. 1993.
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6Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy (review)British Journal for the History of Science 43 (1): 138-139. 2010.
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8M. Weatherall. In Search of a Cure. A History of Pharmaceutical Discovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 298. ISBN 0-19-261747-8. £19.50 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 25 (4): 493-494. 1992.
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5Helga Nowotny. Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future. Translated by Mitch Cohen. . 168 pp. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2008. $30 (review)Isis 101 (3): 689-690. 2010.
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1An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World (review)Isis 103 416-417. 2012.
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29Ways of knowing: towards a historical sociology of science, technology and medicineBritish Journal for the History of Science 26 (4): 433-458. 1993.Among the many groups of scholars whose work now illuminates science, technology and medicine (STM), historians, it seems to me, have a key responsibility not just to elucidate change but to establish and explain variety. One of the big pictures we need is a model of the varieties of STM over time; one which does not presume the timeless existence of disciplines, or the distinctions between science, technology and medicine; a model which is both synchronic and diachronic, and both cognitive and …Read more
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19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |