The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology

by Thomas Söderquist (Editor)

Overview

More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783718659067
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/1997
Series:	Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine , #4
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Thomas Söderqvist

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Who Will Sort out the Hundred or More Paul Ehrlichs?, Thomas Söderqvist; Chapter 2 Whigs, Prigs and Politics, Jeff Hughes; Chapter 3 The Conversation, M. Susan Lindee; Chapter 4 Using Interviews to Write the History of Science, Soraya de Chadarevian; Chapter 5 Writing the History of Space Science and Technology, Joseph N. Tatarewicz; Chapter 6 Part icipant Observation and the Study of Biomedical Sciences, Zlana Löwy; Chapter 7 The Living Scientist Syndrome, Jean-Paul Gaudillière; Chapter 8 Electric Memories and Progressive Forgetting, Skúli Sigurdsson; Chapter 9 Knowledge of the Brain, Susan E. Cozzens; Chapter 10 Writing about Scientists of the Near Past, Frederic L. Holmes; Chapter 11 Recent Science, Paul Forman; Chapter 12 Scientists as Policymakers, Advisors, and Intelligence Agents, Ronald E. Doel; Chapter 13 Who’s Afraid of the History of Contemporary Science?, Steve Fuller;