Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "History of Science"
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Charles Darwin as a Celebrity
(Cambridge University Press, 2003)Several recent works in sociology examine the manufacture of public identities through the notion of celebrity. This paper explores the imagery of Charles Darwin as a nineteenth-century scientific celebrity by comparing ... -
Charles Darwin: Traveller, author, and naturalist
(W.H. Freeman, 2011) -
The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 in New York City
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1959) -
Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Tool for Social and Economic Analysis
(Cambridge University Press, 1966) -
The Cigarette, Risk, and American Culture
(MIT Press, 1990) -
Citizens of the Chemical Complex: Industrial Expertise and Science Philanthropy in Imperial and Weimar Germany
(2014-02-25)This dissertation is a social and cultural history of chemical industrialists and their role in the development of both science and capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on the case of Germany, ... -
Cleopatra's Nose - and the Development of World History
(Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, 2012) -
Climates on the Move: Climatology and the Problem of Economic and Environmental Stability in the Career of C.W. Thornthwaite, 1933-1963
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the role of climate science in ensuring environmental stability. It traces the career of the climatologist Charles Warren Thornthwaite, beginning with his work as a population geographer for the ... -
Clio and Caring: An Agenda for American Historians and Nursing
(American Journal of Nursing Co., 1987) -
The Collective Commentary as Reference Genre
(Walter de Gruyter, 2006)The commentary has long been a particularly versatile genre. The continuous commentary on a text is the most widespread and long-lived model, generating ancient scholia, medieval manuscripts displaying a central island of ... -
Commentary: Epidemiology in Context
(Oxford University Press, 2009) -
A Complete Medical Education Includes the Arts and Humanities
(American Medical Association, 2014) -
Compulsory Premarital Screening for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Technical and Public Health Considerations
(American Medical Association, 1987)The effectiveness of a mandatory premarital screening program was examined as a means of curtailing the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States. The epidemiology of the HIV, the ... -
Conrad Gessner's Paratexts
(Schwabe, 2016)Throughout his prolific publishing career Conrad Gessner composed abundant paratexts which offer valuable insight into his methods of working. Gessner wrote many dedications, only a minority of which were addressed to major ... -
Contested Boundaries. Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)Since the 19th century, we have come to think of disease in terms of specific entities—entities defined and legitimated in terms of characteristic somatic mechanisms. Since the last third of that century, we have expanded ... -
Cordelia's Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science
(The University of Chicago Press, 1995)This article assesses the current state of research on the credibility of scientific claims and makes some recommendations about the lines along which future historical and sociological inquiry might most constructively ... -
Coronary artery disease and the contours of pharmaceuticalization
(Elsevier BV, 2015)Coronary artery disease (CAD) has dominated mortality for most of the past century, not just in Europe and North America but worldwide. Treatments for CAD, both pharmaceutical and surgical, have become leading sectors of ... -
Corrections manuscrites et listes d'errata à la Renaissance
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Corresponding Naturalists
(Pickering & Chatto, 2014)