The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology
Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. Hardcover. Blond & decorated boards, 264 pp. VG- (corners slightly bumped, light tanning at page edges, inscribed by editor on front flyleaf.). Item #136257
ISBN: 3718659069
A collection of 13 essays: Who Will Sort out the Hundred or More Paul Ehrlichs? Remarks on the Historiography of Recent and Contemporary Technoscience / Thomas Soderqvist -- Whigs, Prigs and Politics: Problems in the Historiography of Contemporary Science / Jeff Hughes -- The Conversation: History and History as it Happens / M. Susan Lindee -- Using Interviews to Write the History of Science / Soraya de Chadarevian -- Writing the History of Space Science and Technology: Multiple Audiences with Divergent Goals and Standards / Joseph N. Tatarewicz -- Participant Observation and the Study of Biomedical Sciences: Some Methodological Observations / Ilana Lowy -- The Living Scientist Syndrome: Memory and History of Molecular Regulation / Jean-Paul Gaudilliere -- Electric Memories and Progressive Forgetting / Skuli Sigurdsson -- Knowledge of the Brain: The Visualizing Tools of Contemporary Historiography / Susan E. Cozzens -- Writing about Scientists of the Near Past / Frederic L. Holmes -- Recent Science: Late-Modern and Post-Modern / Paul Forman -- Scientists as Policymakers, Advisors and Intelligence Agents: Linking Contemporary Diplomatic History with the History of Contemporary Science / Ronald E. Doel -- Who's Afraid of the History of Contemporary Science? / Steve Fuller.
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