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Departmental Papers (HSS)

Departmental Papers (HSS)

Through a broad range of scholarly projects, HSS faculty research examines relations between the technical practice of scientists, engineers, medical researchers, and clinicians, and the material, social, political and cultural context in which those practices occur.

Submissions from 2016 2016

Patrons of the Human Experience: A History of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1941-2016, Susan M. Lindee and Joanna Radin

Submissions from 2013 2013

Toward a New Organology: Instruments of Music and Science, John Tresch

Submissions from 2012 2012

The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks, Susan M. Lindee and Ricardo V. Santos

Submissions from 2011 2011

Is Cystic Fibrosis Genetic Medicine's Canary?, Susan M. Lindee and Rebecca Mueller

Introduction: Audio/Visual, Mara Mills and John Tresch

Review of Mary Pickering, Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, Vols 2 and 3, John Tresch

The Prophet and the Pendulum: Sensational Science and Audiovisual Phantasmagoria Around 1848, John Tresch

Submissions from 2010 2010

La « Technesthétique » : Répétition, Habitude et Dispositif Technique Dans Les Arts Romantiques, John Tresch

Submissions from 2009 2009

Transubstantiation in Science. Review of Anglea Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise, Science Without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives; Jessica Riskin, Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life, Susan M. Lindee

« La puissante magie de la vraisemblance » : Edgar Allan Poe à l’époque du machinisme, John Tresch

Submissions from 2007 2007

Sputnik, Cold War Nostalgia, and 9/11: The Lessons of Sputnik post-9/11, Susan M. Lindee

Technological World-Pictures: Cosmic Things and Cosmograms, John Tresch

Submissions from 2003 2003

Provenance and the Pedigree: Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish, Susan M. Lindee

Review of Peter M. Hammond and Gradon B. Carter, From Biological Warfare to Healthcare: Porton Down, 1940-2000, Susan M. Lindee

Voices of the Dead: James Neel's Amerindian Studies, Susan M. Lindee

Submissions from 2001 2001

Review of Patrick Tierney, Darkness in El Dorado, Susan M. Lindee

Cloning in the Popular Imagination, Dorothy Nelkin and Susan M. Lindee

Submissions from 2000 2000

Review of Lisa Yoneyama, Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory, Susan M. Lindee

Submissions from 1999 1999

Review of Joan M. Fujimura, Crafting Science: A Socio-History of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer, Susan M. Lindee

Submissions from 1998 1998

A Defense of Gay Science. Review of Timothy F. Murphy, Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, Susan M. Lindee

The Repatriation of Atomic Bomb Victim Body Parts to Japan: Natural Objects and Diplomacy, Susan M. Lindee

Submissions from 1997 1997

Review of Evelyn Fox Keller, Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology, Susan M. Lindee

Creating Natural Distinctions, Dorothy Nelkin and Susan M. Lindee

Submissions from 1995 1995

Review of Jonathan M. Weisgall, Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll, Susan M. Lindee

Scientific Outsiders and the Human Genome Project. Review of Timothy F. Murphy and Marc A. Lappé, Justice and the Human Genome Project; Robert F. Weir, Susan S. Lawrence, and Evan Fales, Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics; Tom Wilkie, Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and Its Implications, Susan M. Lindee

Submissions from 1994 1994

The ELSI Hypothesis. Review of George Annas and Sherman Elias, Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics as Guides; Daniel Kevles and Leroy Hood, The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project; Marcel Melancon and Raymond Lambert, le genome humain: Une responsabilite scientifique et sociale; Michael Yesley, Bibliography: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, Susan M. Lindee

Submissions from 1993 1993

A Guide to the Human Genome Project: Technologies, People, and Institutions, Susan L. Speaker, Susan M. Lindee, and Elizabeth Anne Hanson

Submissions from 1991 1991

The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853, Susan M. Lindee