Selected Articles and Books
Susan E. Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Susan E. Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2008)
January 25 (Friday) at Noon Walton Schalick, UW–Madison “Mephibosheth in the Middle Ages: Disability and Children, 1000-1400.” February 1 (Friday) at Noon Scott Prinster, UW–Madison “Who’s Watching the Watchers? Why Some Historians Call Institutional Review Boards a Threat to Academic Freedom.” February 8 (Friday) at Noon Visual Culture Symposium No Brown Bag February 13 (Wednesday) …
November 2008 Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science, received the Sarton Medal at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Pittsburg. It is the highest honor conferred by the society and given in recognition of a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement by a distinguished scholar, selected from the …
October 2008 For the second time, Eric Schatzberg has won the Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, a prize given to the author of the best scholarly work published during the preceding three years under the auspices of the Society. It was awarded for his article “Technik Comes to America: Changing …
September 2008 Michael Shank was named a Herbert and Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor in Integrated Liberal Studies for 2008-2010. The professorship honors contributions Evelyn Howe, emerita lecturer in ILS, and Herbert Howe, professor emeritus of classics and ILS, made to the Ford Scholars program in the 1950s, to ILS, and to undergraduate education at UW–Madison. …
January 26 (Friday) at Noon Christina Matta and Richard Staley, UW–Madison “A Graduate Student’s Guide to Publishing.” February 2 (Friday) at Noon Kellen Backer, UW–Madison February 8 (Thursday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium: Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego “Opportunities and Opportunism: How Cold War Military Oceanographers Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists Who …
September 7 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 12 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm Colloquium: Ann Blair, Harvard University “Managing Information in Big Books, 1500-1700.” Location: 6104 Social Science September 14 (Friday) at Noon Claire Wendland, UW–Madison “Politics, history and medicine in post-Banda Malawi.” September 21 (Friday) at Noon Daniel Siegel, UW–Madison “Isaacson on Einstein: …
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 …
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 …
June 2007 Gregg Mitman was profiled in the Madison Capital Times on June 11, 2007.