Category: All News

Selected Articles and Books

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. Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University …

Welcome Susan Lederer and Walton Schalick

August 2007 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 …

Faculty in the News

June 2007 Gregg Mitman was profiled in the Madison Capital Times on June 11, 2007.

Faculty Departure

May 2007 Warwick Anderson is leaving UW–Madison for University of Sydney, where he will be University Research Professor in the History Department and the Centre on Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine. We will miss Warwick’s creative intellect.

Matthew Lavine garners ILS TA Award

April 2007 History of Science doctoral candidate and ILS TA Matthew Lavine received an ILS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. Congratulations to Matt on a job well done!

Warwick Anderson wins Guggenheim Fellowship

April 2007 Warwick Anderson has won a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for his project, “The Science of Race Mixing in the Twentieth Century,” which looks at the transnational network of research on race mixing, or miscegenation.

All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2006

September 8 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 11 (Monday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University “The Life of Money and the Afflictions of the Body.” Location: 8417 Social Science September 15 (Friday) at Noon Linda Hogle, UW–Madison “Everything you always wanted to know about STS at the UW, but were afraid …

Selected Articles and Books

Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Gregg Mitman, “Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature” Isis 97 (2006): 496-504. Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, expanded edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Ron added …

New History of Science Faculty Associates

August 2006 Three UW–Madison faculty have joined the department as affiliates: Rima Apple, professor emeritus, School of Human Ecology; Greg Downey, associate professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications and of Library and Information Studies; and John Rudolph, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction.

Gregg Mitman co-PI on $3 million NSF Grant

June 2006 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.”