The historiography of contemporary science, technology, and medicine : writing recent science / edited by Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Description
xv, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; 23 [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 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 is 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 : neglected 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.
    ISBN
    • 0415272947 (hbk.)
    • 9780415272940 (hbk.)
    • 0415391423 (pbk.)
    • 9780415391429 (pbk.)
    • 0203323882 (ebk.)
    • 9780203323885 (ebk.)
    LCCN
    2005031144
    OCLC
    62281467
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