This is the final online version of the program for the 1998 Annual Meeting.
Thursday, October 22 Is the Fight Still On? Reflections on the
Science Wars in History, Sociology, and Science Session organized by Diana Barkan (California Institute of Technology) Thursday, October 22 Empire C Chair: *Garland E. Allen (Washington University, St. Louis) Session Participants To Be Announced. Session co-organized by Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University) to be followed by Journal of History of Biology Reception (by invitation only) hosted by Kluwer Academic Publishers Friday, October 23 Chair: Michael J. Crowe (University of Notre Dame) Marvin Bolt (Adler Planetarium) "John Herschel's Natural Philosophy: Habits for a Scientific Hobby" Darin Hayton (University of Notre Dame) "John Herschel's Research into Physical Optics" Sydney Ross (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) "The Catalogue of the Herschel Library" *M. J. Crowe & D. R. Dyck (University of Notre Dame & Concord College) "Calendar of the John Herschel Correspondence and John Herschel's Diary" History and Historiography of Recent Science Chair: *Horace Freeland Judson (Center for History of Recent Science) Commentator: Ron Doel (Oregon State University) Steven C. Weiss (George Washington University) "Weaving Science and Politics in History of Recent of Science: the Case of the Superconducting Super Collider" Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University) "'Practical History': Beyond Social Context" Anne Fitzpatrick (Charles Babbage Institute) "Need to know: Threading the Labrynths of Classified Materials for Historical Research" Carl-Henry Geschwind (George Washington University) "Predictive Ability as a Criterion in Theory Choice: the Dilatancy Model for Earthquake Prediction, 1972-1977" Cultures of Credit in the Enlightenment Chair: J.B. Shank (Stanford University) Commentator: Lissa Roberts (San Diego State University) *John Powers (Indiana University) "Pedagogy and Public Culture: Hermann Boerhaave and the Fortunes of Leyden" Adrian Johns (University of California, San Diego) "Quackery and Piracy in the Enlightenment: William Raymer and the Forging of Credibility" John Detloff (Princeton University) "The Chemistry of State: Chemical Knowledge and State Power in Late Eighteenth-century France" Mathematical Values: Social Mores and Mathematical Practices Chair: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University ) Commentator: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University) Roger Hart (Stanford University) "Quantifying Music: Political Cosmology, Courtly Ritual, and Precision Mathematics in Seventeenth Century China" *Amir Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles) "Geometrical Landscapes: Dee and Hariot on Empire and Mathematics" Theodore M. Porter (University of California, Los Angeles) "Social Mathematics" Joan Richards (Brown University) "Geometry in the Age of Reason: Euclid and the Enlightenment" Modern Scientific Exploration Chair: Richard Sorrenson (Indiana University) Commentator: Richard Sorrenson (Indiana University) Jordan Kellman (Princeton University) "Maritime Travel and the Paris Academy of Science" *Gabriel Finkelstein (Princeton University) "Headless in Kashgar" Scott Kirsch (University of Oklahoma) "Place and Progress in the Natural and Social Sciences: John Wesley Powell in Washington and the American West" Stuart McCook (The College of New Jersey) "The Fragile Frontier: Botanical Exploration in Costa Rica, 1880-1940" Unusual Anatomies and the Politics of Agency Chair: *Alice D. Dreger (Michigan State University) Commentator: Cheryl Chase (Director of the Intersex Society of North America) Anne Fausto-Sterling (Brown University) "The Saga of Joan/Joan: Using Case Studies to Prove a Point" Alice Dreger (Michigan State University) "Social Constructivism as Carrot, Stick, Therapy and Guide: An Insider's Observations on the Intersex Rights Movement" Matter and Spirit in 17th-Century Natural Philosophy Chair: Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University) Commentator: Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University) Guido Giglioni (Johns Hopkins University) "Matter, Spiritual Superintendency, and Natural Law in Matthew Hale" *Margaret J. Osler (University of Calgary) "Final Causes and Seminal Principles in Gassendi and Boyle" Sarah Hutton (The University of Hertfordshire) "Anne Conway's Theory of Substance" Practice versus Theory Revisited: The Complex Interface between Physics and Engineering in Late-Victorian England Chair: Jed Buchwald (Dibner Institute) Commentator: Jed Buchwald (Dibner Institute) Sungook Hong (Dibner Institute) "Hybrids and Mediators: John Ambrose Fleming and Oliver Heaviside" Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) "Inductions and Reductions: "Professors" and "practitioners" debate the mathematization of self-induction, 1880-95" *Nani Clow (Harvard University) "Imperial Science versus "the civilizing engineer": Reexamining the Practice versus Theory debates of 1888-90" 12:30 - 1:30 pm Forum for the History of Science in America Distinguished Scientist Lecture Hatten S. Yoder, Jr. (Director Emeritus, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) "Funding-Directed Science, Freedom of Choice Lost" 1:30 - 3:10 pm Seeing and Understanding Chair: Harold J. Cook (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Theresa Levitt (Harvard University) "Clothing the Naked Eye: The Scientific Photography of François Arago and Jean-Baptiste Biot" Jutta Schickore (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) "The Microscopic Anatomy of the Retina, 1835-1855" Tom Seppalainen (University of Pittsburgh) "Canceling the Colors: Hering contra Helmholtz" Andrew Backe (University of Pittsburgh) "The Origin of John Dewey's Views on the Reflex Arc" Darwinism and Its Discontents Chair: Bernard Lightman (York University) James Strick (Arizona State University) "Rising Young Darwinian Star: A New View of Henry Charlton Bastian, 1860-1870" Abigail Lustig (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) "Altruism and the possibility of progress in Darwin's Origin of Species and Eliot's Middlemarch" Richard England (Franklin and Marshall College) "Poisoned Milk, False Science: Scientific Authority in "Genesis and Geology" Debates of the 1880's" Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University of Belfast) "The "Gorilla Sermons" of Bishop E. W. Barnes: Evolutionism and Religion in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" The Landscape of Science in 19th Century America Chair: Keith R. Benson (University of Washington) Daniel Goldstein (University of Iowa) "The landscape of science in nineteenth-century America" Jordan D. Marche, II (Indiana University) & Theresa A. Marche (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "A "Distinct Contribution": Gender, Art, and Scientific Illustration in Antebellum America" Nancy Farm Mannikko (Michigan Technological University) "Scientists or Businessmen? Local Engineering Clubs and Professional Identity During the Gilded Age" R. J. Heinig (University of Notre Dame) "Consensus, Community, and the Creation of Science as Intellectual Authority in 19th-c. America" Postwar Scientific Reorientations Chair: Lillian Hoddeson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Andrew John Robertson (Harvard University) "The Postwar Introduction of American Automatic Control to Japan: Regeneration, Reorientation, and Reconstruction" Gary J. Weisel (University of Florida, Gainesville) "Between the Laboratory and Space: Three Visions of Plasma Physics" Kai Handel (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule) "The Uses and Limits of Theory: From Radar Research to the Invention of the Transistor" The Methods of Modern Physics Chair: Michael Riordan (University of California, Santa Cruz) Arne Schirrmacher (Deutsches Museum, Research Institute for the History of Science) "Planting in the neighbor's garden: Hilbert's investments in early Göttingen quantum physics" Abha Sur (MIT) "Control and Collaboration in Science in the Indian Context: Unfolding the Raman-Born Controversy" Edward MacKinnon (California State University Hayward)"Schwinger's Quantum Field Theory: Trajectory of a Methodology" Colonialism and the Transfer of Scientific Knowledge Chair: Ronald Rainger (Texas Tech University) Shang-Jen Li (Imperial College, University of London) "Perfect Adaptation, the Harmony of Nature, and the Natural History of Parasites: Patrick Manson's Study of Filariasis in China" Suzanne M. Moon (Cornell University) ""Applying Science" to Colonial Development: Agricultural Experiment and Demonstration in the Netherlands East Indies, c. 1905" Daniel Hopkins (University of Missouri-Kansas City) "A colonial scientist, the end of the slave trade, and the colonization of West Africa" Early Modern Natural Philosophy Chair: Joella Yoder (Independent Scholar) H. Darrel Rutkin (Indiana University) "Toward the Modern Configuration of the Mathematical Disciplines: Christopher Clavius and the Rejection of Astrology" Noah J. Efron (Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology) "Jews, Natural Philosophy and the Eirenic Impulse in Rudolfine Prague" Alison Sandman (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Local Knowledge vs. Theoretical Understanding: Navigation as Craft and Science in Early Modern Spain" Alberto Guillermo Ranea (CONICET, Argentina) "Denis Papin (1647-1712?): National hero, servile technician, or natural philosopher?" Medical Missions
Chair: Rima D. Apple (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Michele Thompson (Southern Connecticut State University) "A Medical Mission: The Vietnamese Quest for Smallpox Vaccine in 1820" Mark Tummers (Institute for the History of Science, Utrecht University) "The Biochemistry of E. C. Slater" Colin Talley (Emory University) "Foundations, Government, and the Funding of Research on Multiple Sclerosis in the U.S.A., 1920-1960" Daniel Todes (Johns Hopkins University) "Data processing in Pavlov's physiology factory" 3:30 - 5:30 pm Nature on Display: Science as Mass Entertainment and Education in Germany, 1880-1914 Chair: Donna Mehos (Independent Scholar) Commentator: Gregg Mitman (University of Oklahoma) Andreas Daum (German Historical Institute) "Spectacularizing Nature: The "Scientific Theater" in Berlin ca. 1900" H. Glenn Penny III (University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign) "Learning to See? German Ethnographic Museums, 1900-1914" *Lynn K. Nyhart (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Science, Art, and Authenticity in German Natural History Displays" Comparative Perspectives on Academic-Industrial Relations in 20th-Century Chemistry Chair: Leo B. Slater (Chemical Heritage Foundation) Commentator: Seymour Mauskopf (Duke University)
Cold War American Anthropology Chair: George W. Stocking (University of Chicago) Commentator: Curtis Hinsley (Northern Arizona University) *David Madden (Ohio State University) "From Experts to Social Scientists: The American Anthropologists, 1929-1963" Willow Powers (University of New Mexico) "The Harvard Study of Values: Mirror for Post-War Anthropology" Matti Bunzl (University of Chicago) "From Positivism to Intepretivism: Historicizing the Crisis in Anthropology" The Emergence of Astronomy as an Observational Discipline in the Seventeenth Century Chair: Wilbur Applebaum (Illinois Institute of Technology) Commentator: Bruce Stephenson (Adler Planetarium) James R. Voelkel (Dibner Institute) "Learning to Observe: The Development of Tycho's Observing Program" *Andrea Murschel (University of Chicago) "Kepler, Galileo, and the Motivation for a New Theory of Observational Instrumentation" Voula Saridakis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute) " The Role of Scientific Societies in Legitimizing Astronomical Instrumentation and Observation" Patterns of Patronage in Nineteenth-Century American Science Chair: Pamela Henson (Smithsonian Institution) Commentator: Julie R. Newell (Southern Polytechnic State University) Robert J. Malone (History of Science Society) ""To Take This Trouble, No Inducement Could be Proposed": Thomas Jefferson and William Dunbar" Lucy Jayne Kamau (Northeastern Illinois University) "William Maclure and his Clients: The Hazards of Patronage" *James G. Cassidy (Saint Anselm College) "F. V. Hayden and Spencer Baird: Weaknesses in a Relationship" Writing the Lives of Women in Science Chair: Joy Harvey (Independent Scholar) Lee B. Kass (Cornell University) "Fact, Fiction and Faulty Memories: Documenting Barbara McClintock's Life and Work" Nancy Slack (Russell Sage College) "Grace Pickford: Eminent Scientist, Uncredited Wife and Research Advisor " *Ann Hibner Koblitz (Arizona State University) "Writing the Lives of Russian 'Women of the Sixties'" Marilyn B. Ogilvie (University of Oklahoma) "Collective Memory-Collective Forgetting" Medical and Philosophical Origins of the Human Sciences Chair: Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech) Barbara Naddeo (The University of Chicago) "The Science of Man as the Science of Men: Anthropology in the Kingdom of Naples, 1760-1800" Elizabeth A. Williams (Oklahoma State University) "Faith and Human Science: Reconsidering Anticlericalism in French Medicine and Anthropology" *Daniela Barberis (The University of Chicago) "Philosophy and the Autonomy of Sociology in Fin-de-Siecle France" Francesca Bordogna (Northwestern University) "Philosophy and the Human Sciences in the Work of William James: James's 'Temperament Thesis'" Scholastics Versus Moderns in the Scientific Revolution Chair: Roger Ariew (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) Marcus Hellyer (Brandeis University) "What is a Peripatetic?: The Case of the German Jesuits" Helen Hattab (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) "From Teleology to Mechanism: The Jesuits, Basso and Descartes on Natural Causation" Douglas Jesseph (North Carolina State University) "Hobbes, the Jesuits, and Mathematical Method" *Roger Ariew (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) "Descartes, the Jesuits, and the Scotists" 7:30 - 9:00pm Caught in the Web: Teaching History of Science with New Technologies
Chair: *Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College) Commentator: Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College) E. Boyles, M. Largent & S. Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota) "Enhancing a Course Using the WWW" J. Cain (University College London) "Have I Wasted my Summer on this Web Site?" S. J. Livesey (University of Oklahoma) "Commbase: Collective Biography and Teaching the Middle Ages" Kathy Ketchum & Jan Sigler (Paseo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts) "WGBH's Science Odssesy: Collaborative high school teaching of evolution" Last Resort by Jack D. Pressman: Appraisal and Appreciation Chair: Deborah Coon (University of New Hampshire) *Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania) "Scope and Method" Context" Caroline Acker (Carnegie Mellon University) "Toward the Psychology of Adjustment" Johannes Pols (Harvard University) "Biologizing Psychology" Session co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Human Science John Lankford's American Astronomy: A Roundtable Discussion Chair: *Marc Rothenberg (Smithsonian Institution) Commentator: John Lankford (Kansas State University) Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (Encyclopaedia Brittanica): "TBA" Peggy Aldrich Kidwell (Smithsonian Institution) "Cohorts, Elites and Communities: A View of Lankford's American Astronomy" David Strauss (Kalamazoo College) "Reflections on Lankford's American Astronomy" Focus on Teaching Non-Historians (Roundtable) Chair: Garland Allen (Washington University) Richard Beyler (Portland State University) "Teaching Outside the Comfort Zone of One's Disciplinary Expertise" Paul Farber (Oregon State University) "General Biology and the Historical Approach" Naomi Oreskes (University of California, San Diego) "Teaching Geology as Historically Contextualized Ideas and Practices" *David Spanagel (Emerson College) "Mathematics, Science, Ethics and Values, All Rolled Into One" Art as Science Chair: William Ashworth (University of Missouri, Kansas City) Jean A. Givens (University of Connecticut) "Drawn from Life: Nature, Observation, and Image-Making in Gothic Art" *Karen M. Reeds (Independent Scholar) "Portraying Plants Circa 1500: A Technique that Failed" *Cynthia M. Pyle (New York University) "Scientific Illustration Circa 1600: Drawing, Woodcut and Copper Plate" 9:00 - 11:45 am Work and Waste: Historical and Historiographical Considerations Chair: Jennifer Alexander (University of Washington) Commentator: M. Norton Wise (Princeton University) William J. Ashworth (University of Liverpool) "'Between the Trader and the Public': Defining Measures and Markets in 18th-century England" Timothy L. Alborn (Harvard University) "Wasted Work: Doctors and Bodies in Early Victorian Life Insurance" *Elizabeth Green Musselman (Indiana University) "Work,Waste, and Body Management in 19th-century British Natural Philosophy" Robert M. Brain (Harvard University) "The Chaos of Value-Standards: Workers, Wastrels, and Webers in Wilhelmine Germany" Openness and Secrecy in Early Modern Knowledge Traditions Chair: William R. Newman (Indiana University) Commentator: Bruce T. Moran (University of Nevada, Reno) *Pamela O. Long (Independent Scholar) "Openness and Secrecy in the "Occult" Traditions of Early Modern Europe" Jole Shackelford (University of Minnesota) "Documenting the Factual and Artifactual: Ole Worm and Public Knowledge" Mary E. Fissell (Johns Hopkins University) "Hairy Women, Naked Truths, and the Secrets of Nature: Gendering Knowledge in Early Modern English Popular Medicine" Modeling Practices and Explanatory Strategies in Twentieth Century Science Chair: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University) Commentator: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University) Eric Francoeur (Ecole des Mines, Paris) "Structures and Constraints: Mechanical Molecular Models in Chemistry" Angela Creager (Princeton University) "Models and Materials in Virus Research, 1930-1960" *David Aubin (CRHST, La Villette) "From Catastrophe to Chaos: Topology and Modeling, 1960-1975" Scientific and Political Negotiations of Radiation Safety Issues Chair: Robert Proctor (Pennsylvania State University) Commentator: Karen Rader (Sarah Lawrence College) Gilbert Whittemore (Independent Scholar) "Postwar Establishment of Plutonium Exposure Limits" Joshua Silverman (Carnegie Mellon University) "Risk Assessment and Public Relations in Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing" *Ioanna Semendeferi (University of Minnesota) "Exploiting Uncertainty in Radiation Limits: Monticello Dissenters, Health Physicists, and the Civilian Nuclear Power Debate" Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania) "The Repatriation of Atomic Bomb Victim Body Parts to Japan: Natural Objects and Diplomacy" Scientific Encounters between East Asia and "the West" Chair: Shigehisa Kuriyama (International Research Council for Japanese Studies) Commentator: Daniel Bays (University of Kansas, Lawrence) Hsiu-Yun Wang (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Exoticism, the Body, and Missionary Medicine: American Women Medical Missionaries in China, 1875-1949" *Fa-Ti Fan (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "What is a Mo?: Nineteenth-century Western Research into Chinese Literature on Natural History" Hsian-Lin Lei (University of Chicago) "From Changshan to a New Antimalarial Drug: Re-Networking Chinese Drugs and Excluding Traditional Doctors" Kae Takarabe (Nagoya University) "Samurai at the Smithsonian: First Japanese Visitors to Natural History Museums in the U.S." Science and Democracy in Postwar America Chair: David Hollinger (University of California, Berkeley) Commentator: Jessica Wang (University of California, Los Angeles) *S.M. Amadae (University of California,Berkeley) "From Deweyan public sphere democracy to Arrovian market democracy" Zuoyue Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Banking on technological skepticism: American scientists and public policy during the Cold War" *Peter J. Westwick (University of California, Berkeley) "Secret science: A classified community and the national labs" David Kaiser (Harvard University) "Berkeley Physics in the Fifties: Loyal Theorists and Appropriate Assignments" Session co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in America The Concept of Genetic Disease Chair: Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania) Commentator: Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania) *David Magnus (University of Pennsylvania) "The Development of the Concept of Genetic Disease" Diane Paul (University of Massachusetts, Boston) "PKU and the Concept of Genetic Disease" Erika Wojciuk (Princeton University) "Forming the Gordian Knot: The establishment of a genetic etiology for Tourette syndrome, 1960s-1990s" Robert Proctor (Pennsylvania State University): "The Fertile Face of Fascism: The Forgotten Breakthroughs of Nazi Cancer Research" Gender in the Theory and Practice of Science Chair: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota) Commentator: Andrea Woody (University of Washington) *Cherilyn Lacy (Hartwick College) "Gender and the Limits of Medical Science in Late Nineteenth-century France" Tracy Teslow (University of Chicago) "Gendered Strategies, Gendered Knowledge: Exhibiting the Anthropology of Race" Kristina Rolin (University of Helsinki) "Can Gender Ideologies Influence Physical Sciences?" Saturday, October 24
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