Reading List and Course Syllabi

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Graduate Program in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

 Reading List
   Early Modern Science
   Science and Technology, 1650-Present
   Medicine: Ancient to Modern

 Course Syllabi
   Graduate Level Courses
   Undergraduate Level Courses

 

Reading List

Early Modern Science

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  • Alder, Ken, Engineering the Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)

  • Alexander, Amir, Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002)

  • Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994)

  • Biagioli, Mario, Galileo Courtier (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)

  • Brooke, John Hedley, Margaret J. Osler, and Jitse M. van der Meer, eds, Science in Theistic Contexts, Osiris, vol. 16 2001, essays by Brooke, Wystra, Ragep, Barker & Goldstein, Finocchiaro, Cook, Osler, Snobelen

  • Burtt, E.A., The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1980) (reprint)

  • Campbell, Mary Baine, Wonder and Science. Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)

  • Clark, Stuart, Thinking With Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) Part 2: Science

  • Clark, William, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer, eds. The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999

  • Cohen, I. Bernard and George E. Smith, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

  • Daston, Lorraine and Katherine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998)

  • Dear, Peter, Discipline and Experience (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)

  • Dobbs, B.J.T., The Janus Face of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

  • Gaukroger, Stephen, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995)

  • Golinski, Jan, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

  • Jacob, J.R., The Scientific Revolution (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1998)

  • Jacob, Margaret, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)

  • Kitcher, Philip, The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)

  • Lindberg, David C. and Robert S. Westman, eds. Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)

  • Livingstone, David N., Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)

  • Martin, Julian, Francis Bacon, The State and the Reform of Natural Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

  • McMullin, Ernan, Newton on Matter and Activity (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978)

  • Newman, William R. and Lawrence Principe, Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chyymistry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002)

  • Osler, Margaret J., ed. Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

  • Redondi, Pietro, Galileo Heretic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987)

  • Ruestow, Edward G., Physics at 17th and 18th Century Leiden (Nijhoff, 1973) chapter 7 only.

  • Schiebinger, Londa, The Mind has No Sex?. Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989)

  • Shapin, Steven, The Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 1996)

  • Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air Pump (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)

  • Smith, Pamela, The Business of Alchemy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)

  • Spary, Emma, French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)

  • Stroup, Alice, A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)

  • Terrall, Mary, The Man who Flattened the Earth. Maupertuis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)

  • Wilson, Catherine, The Invisible World. Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)

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Science and Technology, 1650-Present

  • Alder, Ken, The Measure of All Things (New York: Free Press, 2002)

  • Appel, Toby A., The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades before Darwin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)

  • Berg, Maxine, The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815-1848 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980)

  • Brose, Eric Dorn, The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)

  • Browne, Janet, Charles Darwin: a Biography, 2 vols (New York: Knopf, 1995 & 2002).

  • Cahan, David (ed.), Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth Century Science (Berkeley: UC Press, 1993)

  • Carson, John, The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)

  • Cassidy, David C., Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg (New York: Freeman, 1992)

  • Danziger, Kurt, Constructing the Subject (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990)

  • Daston, Lorraine and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books 2007)

  • De Chadarevian, Soraya, Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
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  • Edgerton, David, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (Profile Books, 2006)

  • Edwards, Paul, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997)

  • Fleck, Ludwik, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979)

  • Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Pantheon, 1977)

  • Galison, Peter, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time (New York: Norton, 2003)

  • Galison, Peter, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997) (selected chapters)

  • Golinski, Jan, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

  • Gordin, Michael, Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)

  • Graham, Loren, Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

  • Hacking, Ian, Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)

  • Harrington, Anne, Reenchanted Science (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)

  • Hollinger, David, Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)

  • Hughes, Thomas, American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm (New York: Viking, 1989)

  • Jardine, N., J.A. Secord, and E.C. Spary, Cultures of Natural History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

  • Kay, Lily, Who Wrote the Book of Life?A History of the Genetic Code (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)

  • Koerner, Lisbet, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999)

  • Kohler, Robert E., The Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)

  • Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)

  • Latour, Bruno, Science in Action (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987)

  • Maas, Harro, William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

  • Porter, Theodore M., Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)

  • Porter, Theodore M., Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)

  • Rasmussen, Nicolas, Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997)

  • Renneberg, Monica and Mark Walker, Science, Technology, and National Socialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

  • Rheinberger, Hans-Jorg, Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997)

  • Rudwick, Martin, Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes : New Translations & Interpretations of the Primary Texts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)

  • Secord, James, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)

  • Smith, Crosbie, and M. Norton Wise, Energy and Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)

  • Thompson, Emily, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002)

  • Warwick, Andrew, Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)

  • Weiner, Dora, The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993)

  • Wise, M. Norton, ed., The Values of Precision (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)

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Medicine: Ancient to Modern

  • Ackerknecht, Erwin, “Anticontagionism between 1821 and 1867,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1948, 22: 562-593

  • Bonner, Thomas N., Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Great Britain,France, Germany and the United State 1750-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)

  • Braslow, Joel, Mental ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the first Half of the twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)

  • Brockliss, Laurance and Colin Jones, The Medical World of Early Modern France (New York: Claredon Oxford, 1997)

  • Bynum, W.F., Science and the Practice of Medicine in the nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

  • Cipolla, Carlo, Cristofano and the Plague: A Study in the History of Public Health in the Age of Galileo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973

  • Coleman, William, Death is a Social Disease: Public Health and Political Economy in Early Industrial France (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982)

  • Crosby, Alfred, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 149, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1972)

  • Duffin, Jacalyn, To See with a Better Eye: A Life of R. T. H. Laenne, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)

  • Ellenberger, Henri, The Discovery of the Unconscious, (New York: Basic Books, 1970)

  • Foucault, Michel, The Birth of the Clinic (New York: Vintage Books, 1973, 1994)

  • Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish (New York, Vintage Books, 1975, 1995)

  • Frank, Robert G., Jr., William Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: A Study of Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981)

  • Gelbart, Nina, The King’s Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)

  • Gelfand, Toby, Professionalizing Modern Medicine: Paris Surgeons and Medical Science and Institutions in the 18th Century (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980)

  • Grmek, Mirko D., History of AIDS, Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic (Princeton: Princeton Universsity Press, 1990)

  • Hamlin, Christopher, Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

  • Hannaway, Caroline and Ann La Berge, eds, Constructing Paris Medicine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)

  • Harrington, Anne, Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989)

  • Howell, Joel D., Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

  • Hudson, Robert P., Disease and its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought (New York: Praeger, 1987)

  • Laberge, Ann F, Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

  • Leavitt, Judith Walzer, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)

  • Lesky, Erna, The Vienna Medical School of the 19th Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976)

  • Lindemann., Mary, Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)

  • Maulitz, Russell C., Morbid Appearances: The Anatomy of Pathology in the Early Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)

  • Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell, Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

  • Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell, Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)

  • Numbers, Ronald L. and Darrel W. Amundsen, eds, Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions (New York: Macmillan, 1986)

  • Park, Katharine, Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)

  • Pernick, Martin S., A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985)

  • Porter, Roy, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (London: Harper Collins, 1997)

  • Porter, Roy, Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)

  • Pressman, Jack David, Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

  • Ramsey, Matthew, Professional and Popular Medicine in France, 1770-1830 The Social World of Medical Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)

  • Risse, Guenter, Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)

  • Rosen, George, A History of Public Health (New York: MD Publications, 1958)

  • Rosenberg, Charles, The Cholera Years The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962)

  • Rosenberg, Charles and Janet Golden, eds, Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992)

  • Rosenberg, Charles and Janet Golden, eds, The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System (New York: Basic Books, 1987)

  • Rosenkrantz, Barbara G., Public Health and the State: Changing Views in Massachussetts, 1842-1936 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972)

  • Rothman, David, Strangers at the Bedside: A History of how Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making (New York: Basic Books, 1991

  • Scarborough, John, Roman Medicine (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976)

  • Shryock, Richard H., The History of Nursing:An Interpretation of the Social and Medical Factors Involved (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1959)

  • Sigerist, Henry E., Disease and Civilization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943)

  • Siraisi, Nancy G., Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1990)

  • Starr, Paul, The Social Transformation of American Medicine:The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (New York: Basic Books, 1982)

  • Stevens, Rosemary, IIn Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books, 1989)

  • Temkin, Owsei, Galenism: The Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy (New York: Cornell University Press, 1973)

  • Temkin, Owsei, Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)

  • von Staden, Heinrich, Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989)

  • Warner, John Harley, Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)

  • Weiner, Dora B., The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993)

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Graduate Level Courses

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