The historiography of contemporary science and technology

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The historiography of contemporary science and technology

edited by Thomas Söderqvist

(Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige, v. 4)

Harwood Academic, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Who Will Sort out the Hundred or More Paul Ehrlichs?, Thomas Soederqvist
  • Chapter 2 Whigs, Prigs and Politics, Jeff Hughes
  • Chapter 3 The Conversation, M. Susan Lindee
  • Chapter 4 Using Interviews to Write the History of Science, Soraya de Chadarevian
  • Chapter 5 Writing the History of Space Science and Technology, Joseph N. Tatarewicz
  • Chapter 6 Part icipant Observation and the Study of Biomedical Sciences, Zlana Loewy
  • Chapter 7 The Living Scientist Syndrome, Jean-Paul Gaudilliere
  • Chapter 8 Electric Memories and Progressive Forgetting, Skuli Sigurdsson
  • Chapter 9 Knowledge of the Brain, Susan E. Cozzens
  • Chapter 10 Writing about Scientists of the Near Past, Frederic L. Holmes
  • Chapter 11 Recent Science, Paul Forman
  • Chapter 12 Scientists as Policymakers, Advisors, and Intelligence Agents, Ronald E. Doel
  • Chapter 13 Who's Afraid of the History of Contemporary Science?, Steve Fuller

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