Department News
GENERAL FACULTY NEWS (2007-08)
Arrivals and Departures
The Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine is pleased to welcome Professor Susan Lederer to our faculty. Sue comes to us from the Section of the History of Medicine at Yale University. Sue takes over the position of Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics from Warwick Anderson, who left for a research professorship in the University of Sydney in 2007. One of Sue's primary goals will be to increase the department's visibility in the Medical School curriculum. She brings to this project a good deal of experience teaching medical students at Yale. Sue's interests include the history of human experimentation and medical ethics, with particular focus on 20th-century America. Her latest book, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America was published this past spring by Oxford University Press.
Awards and Honors
Gregg Mitman helped write and is co-PI on a $3,000,000 NSF grant, “Vulnerability and Sustainability in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: An Integrative Traineeship in Sustainability and the Global Environment.”
Ronald Numbers has been elected to a four-year term (2005-2009) as president of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
PUBLICATIONS, RECENT AND FORTHCOMING
Books
Lynn K. Nyhart, Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, early 2008).
Susan E. Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Ronald L. Numbers, Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). Recently reviewed in the Seattle Times.
Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, rev. ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Ron added nearly 150 new pages to the revised edition of his classic work. The Financial Times selected the revised edition as a pick of the year.
Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Selected Articles and Essays
Richard C. Keller, “Clinician and Revolutionary: Frantz Fanon, Biography, and the History of Colonial Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81 (2007): 823-841.
Gregg Mitman, “Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature"Isis 97 (2006): 496-504.
Eric Schatzberg, "Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology Before 1930," Technology and Culture 47 (July 2006): 486-512.
Walton O. Schalick, "Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician," in J. Duffin, ed. Clio in the Clinic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 27-45.