1st Edition

The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology

Edited By Thomas Söderquist Copyright 1997

    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.

    Chapter 1 Who Will Sort out the Hundred or More Paul Ehrlichs?, Thomas Söderqvist; 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 Löwy; Chapter 7 The Living Scientist Syndrome, Jean-Paul Gaudillière; Chapter 8 Electric Memories and Progressive Forgetting, Skúli 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;

    Biography

    Thomas Söderqvist