*History of Science 97a. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 4719
Robert M. Brain and members of the Department
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Sophomore tutorial introduces students to basic problems and methods in the history of science. Students are expected to develop skills in analyzing original sources and in oral and written presentation. Organized into small sections with occasional lectures to the entire class. The first term examines the period from ancient Greece to the Scientific Revolution. Specific topics vary from year to year. Several short papers assigned.
Note: Required for undergraduate concentration in History and Science.
*History of Science 97b. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 5235
Peder Anker and members of the Department
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The second term of sophomore tutorial examines the period from the Scientific Revolution to the mid- 20th century. Specific topics vary from year to year. Course culminates in a closely supervised research paper.
Note: Required for undergraduate concentration in History and Science.
*History of Science 98r. Tutorial — Junior Year
Catalog Number: 1120
David S. Barnes and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
One half year of the junior tutorial is a seminar organized around a special topic. The other half year is a research-oriented tutorial taken in small groups. A substantial amount of writing is required in both terms.
Note: Ordinarily taken by juniors in both terms.
*History of Science 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 6619
Stephanie Kenen and members of the Department.
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: Ordinarily taken by seniors as a full course. Either half year may be taken as a half course, if special permission is obtained. Students are expected to complete a thesis or submit a research paper or other approved project in order to receive course credit.
[History of Science 106. History of Ancient Science]
Catalog Number: 3958
John E. Murdoch
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examination of selected key aspects and issues in the development of ancient science together with an investigation of the treatment of these issues from various historiographic points of view. Emphasis upon the kinds of problems historians of ancient, especially Greek, thought have deemed most relevant for treatment and the types of approaches made to these problems. (DF:E1)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 107. History of Medieval Science
Catalog Number: 5071
John E. Murdoch
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
A study of the scope and nature of scientific thought in the Latin Middle Ages, with emphasis upon the relation of that thought to other aspects of medieval culture, in particular, religion, philosophy, and the universities. (DF:E2)
[History of Science 112. Medicine and Society in Medieval and Renaissance Europe]
Catalog Number: 8576
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of medical theory, organization and practice in the context of other forms of contemporary healing, notably religious and magical. Topics include changing conceptions of health and illness, the evolution of medical explanation, the gendering of healing and the body, the professionalization of medicine, the rise of hospitals and related institutions, and responses to “new” diseases such as syphilis and plague. (DF: E2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 113. Imaging Techniques in Early Modern Science: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 2253 Enrollment: Limited to 15. Limited to 15.
Mario Biagioli
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
In recent years, historians and sociologists have examined the role of visual representations and imaging techniques in modern science. Course looks at the emergence of these practices during the Scientific Revolution. By looking at the development of instruments such as the telescope and the microscope and at the printed representation of visual evidence in astronomy, anatomy, and natural history, we analyze the scientific and cultural dimensions of the debates about the epistemological status of visual evidence and of its mechanical reproductions. (DF:E3)
History of Science 118v. The Physical World of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Catalog Number: 5123
Katharine Mary Anderson
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course examines the role of the sciences, especially physical sciences, in the intellectual and cultural worlds of the 18th and 19th centuries. We will consider the appeal (and scandal) of materialism in the Enlightenment, Romantic perceptions of a natural world filled with invisible fluids and forces, and the impact of industrialization on ideas about energy and work. In this period we
will encounter developments—of disciplines, laboratories, instruments—that seem familiar to our
modern definitions of scientific work. But we will also trace popular engagement with scientific ideas that both shaped and resisted the specialization of science. (DF:M1,M3)
History of Science 120. History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Catalog Number: 5116
Peter L. Galison
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
Philosophical questions raised by historical developments in 20th-century physics, and conversely, historical-scientific questions raised by philosophical inquiry. Late 19th-century reductionist world views leading to special and general relativity. Einstein’s response. Issues in quantum theory and quantum mechanics surrounding causality, determinism, realism, and probabilism. Nuclear fission, and the atomic and thermonuclear weapons. Growth of large-scale experimental high-energy physics. What is meant by “unified” field theories in contemporary physics? Readings: scientific, historical, and philosophical texts. (DF:M3)
Note: Can not be taken for credit by students who have already taken Physics 120.
[History of Science 121. History and Philosophy of Experimentation]
Catalog Number: 5851
Peter L. Galison
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Origin of experimentation in late Renaissance and Early Modern alchemical inquiry up through the transformation of modern physics and accompanying computer simulations and large-scale research. Combines historical, sociological, and philosophical analyses in recent studies of Newton’s prisms, Millikan’s oil drops, pasteurization, solar neutrinos, laser, and weak neutral currents. Topics include: realism, replicability, theory/experiment relation, and problems of philosophical naturalism. What constitutes a laboratory demonstration? What are standards of evidence and how have they changed? (DF: M3)
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[*History of Science 122. Physics and War]
Catalog Number: 1061
Peter L. Galison
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Physics has transformed warfare in the 20th century and warfare, in turn, has radically altered physics. We will examine the shifting role of physics in World War I, World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts, the Cold War and beyond. Topics will include: Nuclear Weapons, Radar and Electronics, Large-Scale Physics, Simulations, National Laboratories, Star Wars, Nuclear Waste, and Stockpile Stewardship. (DF: M3)
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[History of Science 130. Modern Biology]
Catalog Number: 0179
Everett I. Mendelsohn
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Covering the period 1750 to the present; movement from natural history to experimental biology; relations between the field and the laboratory; role of observations, representations, experimental practices, instruments and theories; relationship between biology and the physical-chemical sciences, between organisms, machines and molecules; scientific practices and social implications of the new biology. (DF:M2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 138. Conservation, Ecology, and Environment: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 2390
Everett I. Mendelsohn and Peder Anker
Half course (fall term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
An examination of the science and politics of conservation, ecology, and environment, and their cultural location, using some comparative materials from Europe, Russia and Africa. Particular attention to public organizations, government policy, and scientific knowledge and practice. (DF:M2)
History of Science 139v. Ecology and the Human Condition
Catalog Number: 6412
Peder Anker
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course focuses on the historical development of human ecology in the 20th century. Various
ecological understandings of human philosophy, aesthetics, history, psychology, race, gender, fear, literature, film, religion, sociology, economy, and architecture will be subject to critical discussion. (DF:M2)
*History of Science 140. Disease and Society
Catalog Number: 4471
Charles E. Rosenberg
Half course (spring term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
A consideration of changing conceptions of disease during the past two centuries. We will discuss general intellectual trends as well as relevant cultural and institutional variables by focusing in good measure on case studies of particular ills, ranging from cholera to sickle cell anemia to anorexia and alcoholism.
History of Science 141. On Drugs: The History of the International Trade in Drugs and Materia Medica: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 0252
Bridie Andrews and Peter Buck
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will explore the effects of the drugs trade on international relations from pepper in the Middle Ages to cocaine in the recent past. Emphasis is on the specifics of particular historical cases, with examples to be covered varying according to the interests of participants in the course. Possible topics include: the history of uses of cloves, and its importance in the early European imperialism; discovery of American ginseng and its relevance to US-China relations; the history of the trade in mercury; rhubarb, purgative from the East; Coffee and the European Enlightenment. (DF:M1,M2).
[History of Science 142. Ethics and Values in Modern Medicine and Science]
Catalog Number: 6403
Allan M. Brandt
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A historical survey of a series of ethical and value conflicts in medicine and science during the last century. Among the topics considered are issues in the history of the doctor-patient relationship; the growth and impact of medical technologies; genetic engineering; regulation of scientific research; the ethics of health policy. The social, political, and cultural contexts of medical and scientific developments are assessed in historical perspective. (DF:M2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History of Science 143. History of Germs]
Catalog Number: 4541
David S. Barnes
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The scientific and cultural history of pathogenic microbes, from Medieval and Renaissance notions of contagion through the Bacteriological Revolution to the present day. Emphasis on responses to epidemic and endemic diseases, the growing prestige of biomedical science since the mid-19th century, and the role of social conflict in shaping fears of contagion. (DF:M1,M2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 144. Medicine, Degeneration, and Eugenics
Catalog Number: 3148
Stephanie Kenen
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
In the later 19th and early 20th centuries, eugenic thinking paralleled fears of degeneration in the widespread preoccupation with the decline of civilization. This course will look at the role of scientific and especially medical “experts” in promoting both the problem of and the remedy for this perceived decline. Emphasis will be on changing ideas of “otherness” as symbol and cause of degeneration, and on proposed programs for regeneration (sports, war, selective breeding). Primary focus on the United States and Europe. (DF: M1)
History of Science 145. Public Health in Historical Perspective
Catalog Number: 9956
David S. Barnes
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Surveys the health of human populations and the science of improving it, from the Renaissance to the present. Covers both shifting patterns of disease in the past and the emergence of public health as a domain of expert knowledge and policy. Topics include the epidemiological transition, urbanization, colonialism, notable epidemics, and the political dimensions of health and disease. (DF:M1,M2)
*History of Science 147. Sex, Gender, and Modern Medicine: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 4221 Enrollment: Limited to 18.
Stephanie Kenen
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course will examine historical issues concerning the relationships among sex, gender, and modern medicine. We will look at sex as a subject of scientific study, as well as gender as an analytic category. We will ask questions of how modern western medical traditions have viewed male and female bodies and defined their health and illnesses accordingly, and how western medicine has defined and policed the erotic relationships between the sexes. Emphasis on 19th- and 20th- century U.S. and Britain. (DF:M1,M2)
History of Science 152. Filming Science
Catalog Number: 1658
Peter L. Galison and Robb Moss
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 2:30–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Examination of the theory and practice of capturing scientific practice on film. Topics will include fictional, documentary, informational, and instructional films and raise problems emerging from film theory, visual anthropology and science studies. Each student will make and edit short film(s) about laboratory, field or theoretical scientific work (DF:M1,M2)
Note: Seminar opened to graduate and undergraduate students with permission of instructors.
History of Science 154v. Gender and Science
Catalog Number: 4957
Charis Thompson
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 7
This course covers: (1) Women in Science (recovering in the historical record and promoting women and minorities in science). (2) Feminist Epistemology and Science (the gendering of science itself, and the special roles of experience, identity, connectivity, and embodiment in feminist epistemology). (3) The Body, Sexuality, Queer Theory and Science (the sciences of gendered, especially female, bodies and psychologies, masculinity studies; the sciences of sexuality). (4) Gender and Science in Transnational Perspective (science as providing a transnational language for, and hierarchy of, gendered, bodies). (5) Feminist Science and Technology Studies (science and technologies “for”, or of special interest to, women). (DF:M1)
*History of Science 161 (formerly History of Science 161v). The Scientific Revolution
Catalog Number: 4946
Mario Biagioli
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
Examines the transformation of scientific culture in the 16th and 17th centuries in relationship to society, politics, and religion. Topics include the development of the disciplines of astronomy, anatomy, and natural history; the emergence of new scientific communities and new views of nature; the development of scientific practices such as observation and experimentation. Figures such as Copernicus, Vesalius, Bacon, Harvey, Descartes, Galileo, and Newton are treated in some detail. (DF:E3)
[History of Science 175. Madness and Medicine: Themes in the History of Psychiatry]
Catalog Number: 6245
Anne Harrington
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An attempt to integrate the history of medical thought on the nature of madness and the madman with recent historiography on the social history of psychiatry and its institutions. Topics include the birth of the asylum, the challenge of “moral therapy,” madness and the brain, madness from the patient’s point of view, the “discovery of the unconscious,” schizophrenia, and the antipsychiatry movement. (DF:M2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History of Science 176. Evolution and the Mind: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6736 Enrollment: Limited to 20. Limited to 20. Preference given to juniors and seniors.
Anne Harrington
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores tensions and themes in the historical attempt to reconcile the problem of mind and consciousness with evolutionary models of life since Darwin. Examples include the human mind as the Achilles heel of the naturalistic (post-Darwinian) world view, the case for the “emergence” of mind out of matter, the evolutionary argument for mind as epiphenomenon, cosmic Mind as the driving force behind evolution, the problem of the “savage mind,” madness as evolutionary regression. Particular attention to the social and ethical implications of all these debates. (DF:M2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 177. Stories Under the Skin: The Mind-Body Connection in Modern Medicine
Catalog Number: 4338
Anne Harrington
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An historical probe into the logics and stakes of modern (19th-20th century) thinking and practices concerned with “mind–body” interactions. Topics include: hypnosis; hysteria; the rise of psychosomatic medicine; medical investigations of non-Western phenomena such as “chi” and meditative practices; concerns with human connection and disconnection as sources of healing and illness; the recent rise of psychoneuroimmunology. Analytic emphasis is on integrating questions about the nature of embodied experience over time with questions about the logic of our institutionalized efforts to “domesticate” that experience within the changing explanatory frames of Western medical science. (DF:M2)
History of Science 179v. Brains in Culture: Love, Lies & Neurotransmitters American Style
Catalog Number: 7176
Joseph Dumit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course examines the brain as a cultural object in contemporary media, science, and society including historical views of the brain, digital images of the brain, psychopharmacology, mental illness, neurotransmitters, and the cultures of brain science. We will explore cultural assumptions about neuroscience by drawing on science and technology studies, semiotics, and the cognitive sciences. Topics include different rhetorical modes of presenting brain evidence, uses and abuses; presuppositions of human nature and society built into brain research; and the sociological relationship between brain sciences, science journalism, popular psychology, and self-help. www.BrainArchives.com. (DF:M2)
History of Science 181. Science, Technology, and Modernity
Catalog Number: 6978
Robert M. Brain
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Examination of the role of science and technology in the experience of modernity from 1800 to 1918. Themes include the myths of Faust and Frankenstein and the ideals of personal economic development, steam engines and railways, technological utopias and dystopias, telegraphy and the growth of empire, standardization and commodity culture, electric power systems, urban planning, the mechanization of the body, technology and the arts, and technological warfare. (DF:M1)
History of Science 182. Gender and Technology in East Asia: Lecture
Catalog Number: 1762
Bridie Andrews
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course looks at gendered technologies of East Asian history in such fields as agriculture, textile production, domestic labor, and family and cultural production and reproduction. The course will examine the tensions between cultural ideals of female chastity and seclusion and the realities of men’s and women’s lives through the technologies they used and created. (DF:M1)
*History of Science 183. Social and Political Implications of Technology: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 8588 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter Buck
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Historical studies of how technology shapes society and politics. Interactions between social engineering and the management of technological change; specific technologies vs. expectations about technology in general as limiting the possibilities for social and political change. Examples drawn from war, transportation, communication, and production. (DF:M1)
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02.
[*History of Science 184. Technology in America: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 1617 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter Buck
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines American society, politics, and culture as shaping and shaped by the technologies of war, work, transportation, and health. Emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. (DF:M1)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 185. Romanticism and the Sciences
Catalog Number: 3225
Robert M. Brain
Half course (spring term). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
Examines the emergence of a Romantic tradition in the natural sciences out of the promises and anxieties of revolution at the end of the 18th century. Topics include the place of reflection, self-experiment, introspection, historicism, and aesthetic values in science. Considers the philosophical and empirical legacy of romantic science in national and international contexts. (DF:M1)
*History of Science 206r. Ancient Science: Seminar
Catalog Number: 2410
John E. Murdoch
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Topic for 2000-2001: Aristotle’s views of psychological processes in his De anima and his minor psychological writings and related works of others in later Greek philosophy and medicine. Current controversial topics relating to this literature will also be considered. (DF:E1)
*History of Science 207r. Medieval Science: Seminar
Catalog Number: 8468
John E. Murdoch
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4.
Topic for 2000-2001: The development of logic and semantics in the Latin Middle Ages and the application of logical techniques and conceptions in the natural philosophy of Willian Ockham, John Buridan, and others in the 14th century. (DF:E2)
Note: Reading knowledge of Latin is not required.
[History of Science 215. Science and Culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4568
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Topic for 2001-02 to be announced. (DF: E2,E3)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 217v. The Problematic Sciences
Catalog Number: 6151
Katharine Mary Anderson
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course explores the models and methods of physical science in the 19th century and
looks at their application to problematic fields of study such as meteorology, social science, and occult phenomena. (DF:M3)
History of Science 222. Research in the History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
Catalog Number: 4178
Peter L. Galison
Half course (fall term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
Graduate Seminar: Students will work on advancing their research topics with the aim of producing a publishable paper. Open to students working in the broad area of 19th- through early 21st- century physics, technology, chemistry as well as the relation between the science and architecture (DF:M3)
[*History of Science 230r. The Life Sciences: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0585
Everett I. Mendelsohn
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Concepts, methods, practices, and social relations of the life sciences in the modern period. Particular attention paid to the relationship of biology to the chemical and physical sciences, complexity, organization, and evolution; the rise of genetics and challenges of eugenics and ecological biology. Focus for the year: the 20th century. (DF:M2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Open to qualified undergraduates.
[*History of Science 244. Research in the History of Medical Ethics: Seminar ]
Catalog Number: 6301
Allan M. Brandt
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Course provides a framework for the historical examination of debates concerning medical ethics, and seeks to identify social, cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped value conflicts in clinical medicine and health policy. Students are expected to write a research paper utilizing primary and archival source materials. (DF:M2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 247. Current Issues in the History of Medicine: Seminar
Catalog Number: 2638
David S. Barnes and Allan M. Brandt
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Explores new methods for understanding disease, medicine, and society, ranging from historical demography to cultural studies. Topics include patterns of health and disease, changes in medical science and clinical practice, the doctor-patient relationship, health care systems, alternative healing, and representations of the human body. (DF:M1,M2)
[*History of Science 251. Women, Gender, Feminism and the Sciences: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 4189
Everett I. Mendelsohn
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Course has four units: (i) women in science—invisibility and exclusion; (ii) gendered knowledge and practice—discourse, language and labs; (iii) feminist critiques of the sciences—a separate epistemology, a feminine way of knowing? (iv) changing historiographic traditions, Rossiter, Keller, Schiebinger, Haraway, et al. Includes visits by practitioners and historians. (DF:M1)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Open to qualified undergraduates.
History of Science 253v. Reproductive Technologies: Identity, Science and Politics
Catalog Number: 3884
Charis Thompson
Half course (spring term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
This graduate seminar covers the new techniques available for conceiving, gestating, and cloning humans, fauna and flora. Using scientific, environmental, medical, legal, literary, and economic texts, as well as relevant media coverage, the class will discuss the science and art of reproductive technologies and the ontologies, economics, and identities they entrain. (DF:M2)
[History of Science 261. Fraud, Intellectual Property, Authorship and Responsibility in Science]
Catalog Number: 3446
Mario Biagioli
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the debates on authorship, responsibility, and credit in science in the wake of recent cases of fraud and misconduct. By bringing together perspectives from law, sociology of science, and literary theory, the seminar analyzes the similarities and differences between intellectual property and authorship in science and in other disciplines. (DF:E3)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History of Science 263. Science and/as Literature
Catalog Number: 2704
Mario Biagioli
Half course (fall term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
This course considers relationships between science and literature: the literary structure of scientific arguments; the history of scientific genres (the experimental report, the scientific article, reports of fieldwork, and travel, etc); science fiction and representations of science in popular literature; and the relationship between literary plots and scientific arguments. (DF:M1)
[History of Science 275. “The Minded Body”: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations]
Catalog Number: 8536
Anne Harrington
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Attempts, via a case study approach, to explore “embodiment”—human bodily experience—as part of the proper world of historical and cultural intellectual analysis. Can historical work be done “under the skin”? Theoretical readings will be drawn here from “body history”, anthropology, phenomenological psychology and medicine. A significant independent research project will be expected. (DF: M2)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History of Science 278. In Search of Mind: Seminar
Catalog Number: 0304
Anne Harrington
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
A series of “expeditions” through the four “territories” of the mind: language, emotion, meaning-making, and memory. Reading broadly across disciplines and over a century of shifting focuses, we will aim in this seminar to construct new, less linear, ways of imagining the history of the mind sciences in our time. (DF:M2).
History of Science 279v. Critical Brain Theory: Archives & Memory
Catalog Number: 6251
Joseph Dumit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
In 1952, doctors removed the hippocampus from patient “H.M.” Thereafter he could form no new memories and became an essential subject of psychology and neuroscience. We will use historiography, semiotics, and (post)structuralism alongside the H.M. archive to study the cultural nature of memory and the human nature of archives. www.BrainArchives.com. (DF:M2)
[*History of Science 280. Science and Spectacle]
Catalog Number: 0796
Robert M. Brain
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examination of the role of spectacle, ocularity, media technologies, and the “exhibitionary complex” in the making of a scientific culture from the 18th century to the present. Special emphasis on the role of visualization technologies in the modern laboratory and their transfer to extra-mural contexts. (DF:M1)
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History of Science 290r. Selected Topics in History and Philosophy of Biology
Catalog Number: 8108
Everett I. Mendelsohn
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
(DF:M2)
Prerequisite: Ordinarily one half course at the advanced level in history or philosophy of biology.
*History of Science 295r. Critical History: Writing Between Humans and Non-Humans
Catalog Number: 8360 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Peter L. Galison and Mario Biagioli
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Philosophical, literary theoretical, sociological, and historical approaches to the treatment in science studies of the encounter between humans and non-humans. Graduate Seminar. (DF:M3)
History of Science 297r. Topics in the History of Medieval Latin Science
Catalog Number: 5050 Enrollment: Hours to be arranged.
John E. Murdoch
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged. First Meeting Thurs., 2/1/01 at 4:00.
(DF:E2)
Note: First Meeting Time Th., Feb 1 @ 4pm.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Latin.
*History of Science 298r. The Establishment of Medieval Latin Scientific and Philosophical Texts: Seminar
Catalog Number: 4893 Enrollment: Hours to be arranged.
John E. Murdoch
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged. First Meeting on Thurs. 2/1/01 at 5:00.
The problems and methods involved in preparing critical editions of texts from manuscript materials: principles of establishing the “accepted text,” manuscript tradition, and appropriate apparatus criticus when several manuscripts are employed, as well as the resolution of palaeographic problems. (DF:E2)
Note: First Meeting Time Th., Feb 1 @ 5pm.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Latin, but no previous experience with palaeography required.
*History of Science 301. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 5641
Katharine Mary Anderson 3899 (fall term only), Bridie Andrews 1409, Peder Anker 3315, David S. Barnes 1701 (on leave spring term), Mario Biagioli 1756, Robert M. Brain 2676, Allan M. Brandt 3031, Peter Buck 1894, I. Bernard Cohen 1185, Joseph Dumit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) 3903, Donald Fleming 1831, Peter L. Galison 3239, Owen Gingerich 1159, Stephen J. Gould 1707, Anne Harrington 1895 (on leave spring term), Erwin N. Hiebert 1187, Gerald Holton 1883, Sheila S. Jasanoff (Kennedy School, Public Health) 2248 (on leave 2001-2002) (spring term only), Stephanie Kenen 1535, Everett I. Mendelsohn 2700, John E. Murdoch 1877, Katharine Park 2974 (on leave 2000-01), Charles E. Rosenberg 3784 (spring term only), Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz 3651, A. I. Sabra 2702, and Charis Thompson 3751
Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the Ph.D. degree.
*History of Science 302. Guided Research
Catalog Number: 5282
Katharine Mary Anderson 3899, Bridie Andrews 1409, Peder Anker 3315, David S. Barnes 1701 (on leave spring term), Mario Biagioli 1756, Robert M. Brain 2676, Allan M. Brandt 3031, Peter Buck 1894, I. Bernard Cohen 1185, Joseph Dumit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) 3903, Peter L. Galison 3239, Owen Gingerich 1159, Stephen J. Gould 1707, Anne Harrington 1895 (on leave spring term), Erwin N. Hiebert 1187, Gerald Holton 1883, Stephanie Kenen 1535, Everett I. Mendelsohn 2700, John E. Murdoch 1877, Katharine Park 2974 (on leave 2000-01), Charles E. Rosenberg 3784, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz 3651, A. I. Sabra 2702, and Charis Thompson 3751
Through regular meetings with faculty advisor, this course will focus on research and writing with the purpose of developing a publishable research paper.