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Technical knowledge in American culture : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s /
Technical Knowledge in American Culture addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture, society, and era. These essays challenge the social impact model by looking at science, te...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©1996.
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| Colección: | History of American science and technology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : technical knowledge in American culture : an analysis / Hamilton Cravens and Alan I. Marcus
- The Ohio Mechanic's Institute : the challenge of incivility in the the Democratic Republic / Judith Spraul-Schmidt
- The American career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on chemistry, 1806-1853 / M. Susan Lindee
- From individual practitioner to regular physician : Cincinnati Medical Societies and the problem of definition among mid-nineteenth-century Americans / Alan I. Marcus
- Diagnosing unnatural motherhood : nineteenth-century physicians and "puerperal insanity" / Nancy M. Theriot
- The inventor of the mustache cup : James Emerson and populist technology, 1870-1900 / Edwin T. Layton
- Race-ism and the city : the young Du Bois and the role of place in social theory, 1893-1901 / Zane L. Miller
- The German-American science of racial nutrition, 1870-1920 ; The case of the manufactured morons : science and social policy in two eras, 1934-1966 / Hamilton Cravens
- Responding to the airplane : urban rivalry, metropolitan regionalism, and airport development in Dallas, 1927-1965 / Robert B. Fairbanks
- Unanticipated aftertaste : cancer, the role of science, and the question of DES beef in late twentieth-century American culture / Alan I. Marcus.