Browsing by FAS Department "History of Science"
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Biobricks and Crocheted Coral: Dispatches from the Life Sciences in the Age of Fabrication
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013)What does “life” become at a moment when biological inquiry proceeds by manufacturing biological artifacts and systems? In this article, I juxtapose two radically different communities, synthetic biologists and Hyperbolic ... -
Bioethics: Using Its Historical and Social Context
(Little Brown and Company, 2001) -
Birthdays to Remember
(Nature Publishing Group, 2008) -
Blind to Their Blindness: A History of the Denial of Illness
(2014-06-06)For many historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of medicine, "disease" and "illness" are not equivalent. Whereas "disease" denotes the physician's ostensibly objective criteria, "illness" emphasizes the patient's ... -
Bodin, Montaigne and the Role of Disciplinary Boundaries
(University of Rochester Press, 1997)Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) and Jean Bodin (1529-96) were contemporaries, compatriots and colleagues. Both served as officers in the Parlements, Montaigne as a counselor in Bordeaux and Bodin as a barrister in Paris. ... -
Body and Mind in Nineteenth‑Century Clinical Medicine: Some Clinical Origins of the Neurosis Construct
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989) -
The Brain and the Behavioral Sciences
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)The increasing visibility and sense of intellectual opportunity associated with neuroscience in recent years have in turn stimulated a growing interest in its past. For the first time, a general reference book on the history ... -
The Breathing Self: Toward a History of Respiration
(2016-09-12)This dissertation examines human breathing as an historical object. In particular, it traces how changing theories and practices of breathing were at once experiences and techniques of the self. Unlike historical studies ... -
Buddhist Brains: A Case Study in the Reenchantment of the Brain Sciences
(The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination, 2008) -
The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine
(New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2012) -
Cadden, Laqueur, and the "One-Sex Body"
(Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2010) -
Catechisms of Health: The Body in the Prebellum Classroom
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) -
Catesby's World: England
(University of Georgia Press, 2015) -
The Cause of Cholera: Aspects of Etiological Thought in Nineteenth Century America
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1960) -
A CD-Rom on Medicine in Literature
(Blackwell Publishing, 2001) -
A celebration of the mathematical work of Glenn Stevens
(Springer Nature, 2015) -
Charles Benedict Davenport and the Beginning of Human Genetics
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1961)