The historiography of contemporary science, technology, and medicine writing recent science
As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with the history of contemporary science are debated with growing frequency and urgency. This book brings together authorities on the history, historiography...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2006.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: what we know, what we don't 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's 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: omitted and novel perspectives
- What we still don't 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.
