Past Events

WEST COAST HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY
APRIL 27-29, 2001, AT UCLA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


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FRIDAY, APRIL 27
Clark Library

9:30 -- Coffee and rolls

10:00 -- Modern Medicine and Its Uses

    ERNEST B. HOOK
      UC Berkeley
      Inhalation Anesthesia as a "Postmature Discovery": Social Porosity in a "Developing" Society as a Predisposing Factor to Multiple "Belated" Medical Discovery?

    ERIC BOYLE
      UC Santa Barbara
      Widening the Divide Between Orthodox and Alternative Medicine: The Flexner Report of 1910

    KENNETH OGREN
      University of Umea, Sweden, and UCLA
      The Histories of Lobotomy - An Example from Sweden, with Some Reflections on the Discourse and Historiography of the Surgery of the Brain for Mental Disorder

12:00 -- Buffet lunch

1:00 -- Scientific Thought in American Society

    RICHARD T. VON MAYRHAUSER
      Independent Scholar
      From Oral Recitation to Written Examination: the Forgotten Failure of Horace Mann's Educational Reforms, 1836-1845

    SUSAN MARIE GROPPI
      UC Berkeley
      Philosophy and Data: G. Stanley Hall and Hugo Munsterberg before the Boston Schoolmaster's Club

    MATTHEW C. ABERMAN
      UC Santa Barbara
      Nuclear-Pulse Propulsion: Cold War Fantasy and Cold War Casualty

    GREG WHITESIDES
      UC Santa Barbara
      Science, Scientists and Secularization: The Development of Bioethics

3:40 -- Break

4:00 -- Revisiting Scientific Classics

    AVNER BEN-ZAKEN
      UCLA
      Copernicus in the Ottoman Empire: Peculiarities and Possibilities

    ERIC CASTEEL
      UCLA
      Epicureans, Anabaptists & Atheists - Treasonous Politics and Scientific Influence from Melanchthon to Bacon

    ANNA CAROLINA K. P. REGNER
      Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and Stanford University
      Darwin in the Origin of Species: Challenging the Patterns of Scientific Explanation

6:00 -- Reception


SATURDAY, APRIL 28
314 Royce Hall
The Southern California Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

10:00 -- Science, Technology and Economic Development: How Tight is the Fit?

    JOEL MOKYR, Northwestern University
      The Industrial Revolution: An Economist Looks at Intellectual and Cultural Factors

    ALICE H. AMSDEN, MIT
      Adding Foreign vs. National Ownership to Technology and Development: Is the Fit Better?

    NAOMI R. LAMOREAUX and KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UCLA
      The Rise and Decline of Patenting in the United States

    DAVID REID, University of North Florida, and MARGARET JACOB, UCLA
      Technical Knowledge and the Mental Universe of the Early Cotton Manufacturers

Participants are asked to read the precirculated papers in advance. These will be available at http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/jacob/colloquium/index.html; follow the links to the program for April 28. User Name: colloquium, Password: science

A buffet lunch will be served mid-day.

6:00 -- Banquet


SUNDAY, APRIL 29
Center for the Health Sciences
Louise Darling Biomedical Library, History Division

9:30 -- Coffee and rolls

10:00 -- Politics and Science in 20th-Century Germany: New Work and Reflections

    JOCHEN KIRCHHOFF
      Deutsches Museum, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, and UC Berkeley
      Science Policy in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

    GREGORY B. MOYNAHAN
      UC Berkeley and Bard College
      Political Animals: Adolf Meyer-Abich and the Development of Theoretical Biology in Germany 1928-1955

    M. NORTON WISE
      UCLA
      Comments

11:45 -- Sandwich buffet

Departure



With financial support from the Medical History Division, Department of Neurobiology, UCLA School of Medicine, and the Office for History of Science and Technology, UC Berkeley.

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