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001 2005031144
003 DLC
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008 051102s2006 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005031144
020 $a0415272947 (hardback)
020 $a0415391423 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQ175$b.H496 2006
082 00 $a509$222
245 04 $aThe historiography of science, technology and medicine :$bwriting recent history /$cedited by Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2006.
263 $a0605
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: what we know, what we don't and why it matters -- Where are we now? the challenges of writing recent science -- Why science writers should forget Carl Sagan and read Thomas Kuhn: on the troubled conscience of a journalist -- The history of now: reflections on being a "contemporary archivist" -- Whose history? ethics, lawsuits, national security, and the writing of contemporary history -- The politics of commissioned histories (revisited) -- From behind the fence: threading the labyrinths of classified historical research -- On ethics, scientists, and democracy: writing the history of Eugenic sterilization -- Witnesses to history: issues in biography and ethics -- What's the use of writing lives of recent scientists? -- Scholarship as self-knowledge: a case study -- Secrecy, politics, and science: probing the meaning of the cold war -- The politics of phosphorus-32: a cold war fable based on fact -- Secrecy and science revisited: from politics to historical practice and back -- History detectives: new ways of approaching modern science, medicine, and technology -- The conflict of memories and documents: dilemmas and pragmatics of oral history -- Reading photographs: photographs as evidence in writing the history of modern science -- New voices: omitted and novel perspectives -- What we still don't know about south-north technoscientific exchange: north-centrism, scientific diffusion and the social studies of science -- Witnessing the witnesses: potentials and pitfalls of the witness seminar in the history of twentieth century medicine -- The mutt historian: the perils and opportunities of doing history of science on-line.
650 0 $aScience$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aTechnology$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aMedicine$xHistoriography.
700 1 $aDoel, Ronald Edmund.
700 1 $aSöderqvist, Thomas.