| Cathryn Carson (Associate Professor, History; Director of OHST) | |
| History of modern physics, history of science in Germany and the U.S. Currently working on the history of the science behind nuclear waste management in the United States and Germany; beginning a collaborative project (with Elihu Gerson, Jim Griesemer, and Craig Moritz) on the shaping of evolutionary biology in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Also interested in issues in condensed matter physics and quantum field theory, the relationship between science and philosophy, the management and administration of science, and the history of science and technology at Berkeley. Her book Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Co-editor, with David A. Hollinger, of Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections (2005); chair of the editorial board, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (formerly Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences). E-mail: clcarson@berkeley.edu Web page: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Carson/ |
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| Brian Dolan (Professor, Medical Humanities, UCSF) | |
| Has worked on a broad range of topics in the history of science, medicine and technology from the Age of Enlightenment to the modern period. He is currently researching issues in bio-ontology-the organization of modern medical knowledge and uses of evidence based medicine. He teaches medical humanities to UC Berkeley/UCSF medical students, and is director of a master's program in Medical Science & Technology Studies. Publications include Exploring European Frontiers: British Travelers in the Age of Enlightenment (2000), Ladies of the Grand Tour (2001), Wedgwood: The First Tycoon (2004), and Engineering Entertainment: Mechanized Music and the Transformation of Tin Pan Alley (forthcoming, 2008). He is also the editor of the journal Social History of Medicine. E-mail: dolanb@dahsm.ucsf.edu Web page: http://dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/dolan_brian.aspx |
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| Roger Hahn (Professor of Graduate Studies, History) | |
| Occasional teaching in science and technology before 1850, with particular attention to the Scientific Revolution and its aftermath. Publications include a biography of Laplace and on the Paris Academy of Sciences. E-mail: rhahn@berkeley.edu Web page: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Hahn/ |
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| John L. Heilbron (Professor Emeritus, History, non-resident) | |
| Current research interests include relations between science and religion in the 17th and 18th centuries, physics and its institutions in the 20th century, and the use of history of science in the teaching of science. His most recent books are Geometry civilized: History, culture, and technology (1998); The sun in the church: Cathedrals as solar observatories (1999); Rutherford and the explosion of atoms (2003); and, as editor in chief, The Oxford companion to the history of modern science (2003). E-mail: john@heilbron.eclipse.co.uk |
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| David A. Hollinger (Professor, History) | |
| Research interests include the cultural relations of science, especially in the U.S., 19th and 20th centuries. Teaches primarily U.S. intellectual history since 1865. Books include: Morris R. Cohen and the scientific ideal (1975), In the American province: Studies in the history and historiography of ideas (1985), Postethnic America: Beyond multiculturalism (1995), and Science, Jews, and secular culture: Studies in mid-20th century American intellectual history (1996); co-editor with Charles Copper of The American intellectual tradition (3rd edition, 1997), with Cathryn Carson of Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial studies and reflections (2005) . E-mail: davidhol@berkeley.edu Web page: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Hollinger/ |
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| Thomas W. Laqueur (Professor, History) | |
| Thomas Laqueur's research interests include various topics in the history of medicine, in the relationship between death practice and technology, and in the cultural history of biology more generally; most recent relevant publications include Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Solitary Sex, A Cultural History of Masturbation and various articles on the history of sexuality and medicine, the good death, the market in blood, smoking, autopsies and recent human rights activism. E-mail: tlaqueur@berkeley.edu Web page: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Laqueur/ |
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| John E. Lesch (Professor, History) | |
| Teaches history of science since the mid-18th century, with emphasis on the life sciences. Research interests include the relationships of the laboratory sciences to medical thought, practice, and institutions, and the development of pharmaceuticals. Recently published The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine (2007), a study of the role of the sulfa drugs in initiating the tremendous expansion of pharmaceutical research and development, production, and use that began in the 1930s, and the associated connections among science, industry, and medicine. E-mail: jlesch@berkeley.edu Web page: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Lesch/ |
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| Maria Mavroudi (Associate Professor, History) | |
| Research interests include the reception of ancient Greek science in Byzantium and Islam and the contact between Byzantine and Islamic science. Her most recent relevant publication is a volume co-edited with Paul Magdalino and titled The Occult Sciences in Byzantium (La Pomme d'or, Geneva, 2007). E-mail: mavroudi@berkeley.edu Web page: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Mavroudi/ |
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| Abena Dove Osseo-Asare (Assistant Professor, History) | |
| General research interests include the history of scientific knowledge, popular culture, and natural resource management with an emphasis on experiences in Africa; the disjuncture between elite and popular understandings of health, technology and the environment in different historical periods, with an eye towards how history might inform public policy today. Current research focus: history of bioprospecting in tropical West Africa. Using the case of Ghana, the project addresses the ways in which patents, databases, and chemical formulas have been used to alienate everyday people from rights to medicinal plants. It places the history of drug discovery in an international framework to better understand the global pharmaceutical industry. E-mail: osseo@berkeley.edu Web page: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Osseo-Asare/ |
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| Dorothy Porter (Professor, History of Health Sciences, UCSF) | |
| Dorothy Porter is Professor in the History of Health Sciences and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Her last monograph was Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1st edition 1999; 2nd edition, 2005). She is currently researching "A New Methodology for Evaluating Scientific Collaboration in Translational Brain Tumor Research"; writing a monograph on the relationship between the social sciences and medicine in twentieth-century Britain examining the emergence of 'life-style' medicine in the post-war period; and undertaking, with Brian Dolan, a study of the development of Medical Humanism in United States academic medical centers in the twentieth century. Email: porterd@dahsm.ucsf.edu Web page: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/porter_dorothy.aspx |
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| Francesca Rochberg (Professor, Near Eastern Studies) | |
| Teaches ancient sciences, particularly astronomy and astrology. Research interests focus on Babylonian astral sciences and the question of the nature of science and religion in antiquity. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (CUP 2004) will be out in paperback in 2007. E-mail: rochberg@berkeley.edu Web page: URL forthcoming |
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| Elizabeth Watkins (Associate Professor, History of Health Sciences, UCSF) | |
| Broadest research interests focus on technological and clinical applications of medical knowledge, the popularization of information about health and medicine, and the roles of gender in medicine. She has written two books, The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America (2007) and On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970 (1998), addressing the issues of medical and cultural concerns about the long-term use of hormones, the relative merit of clinical observations and epidemiological data in risk-benefit analysis, and the definition of informed consent within the doctor-patient relationship. Her co-edited volume, Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs In History (2007) is the first to explore the rich and multi-faceted history of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States since World War II, demonstrating the extent to which contemporary debates about pharmaceutical drugs echo concerns voiced by Americans in recent decades. Her current research and most recent article ("The Medicalization of Male Menopause" in Social History of Medicine ) expands gender studies of health and medicine to include men's experiences along with those of women. She is also working on two additional research projects: a history of the contraceptive implant, Norplant, and a history of hormones in American science, commerce, and culture in the 20th century. Email: watkinse@dahsm.ucsf.edu Web page: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/watkins_elizabeth.aspx |
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| Michael Wintroub (Associate Professor, Rhetoric) | |
| Michael Wintroub's areas of research are the history of science, the "Scientific Revolution," museum studies, early modern cultural history, ritual, travel, social change, identity formation, alterity, cross-cultural contact, popular and court culture, state-building, religion, humanism, vernacular consciousness and literature, material and visual culture, sociology of science, history of anthropology and intellectual history. E-mail: wintroub@berkeley.edu Web page:http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/michael_wintroub.html |
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