Thomas H. Broman
Position title: Emeritus Professor
Email: thbroman@wisc.edu
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Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Biography
Current interests include science and medicine in the Enlightenment; the role of science in the public sphere; 18th-century German intellectual and cultural history.
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University, History, 1987
M.A., Princeton University, History, 1983
M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Agronomy, 1980
A.B., Ripon College, Biology and Chemistry, 1976
Books
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Thomas H. Broman (Editor), and Lynn K. Nyhart (Editor). Science and Civil Society. Vol. Osiris, Volume 17, University of Chicago Press, 2002. -
Thomas H. Broman. The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Selected Publications
- Thomas Broman, “Metaphysics for an Enlightened Public: The Controversy over Monads in Germany, 1746-1748,” Isis 103:1 (2012), 1-23.
- Thomas Broman, “The Semblance of Transparency: Expertise as a Social Good and an Ideology in Enlightened Societies,” Osiris 27 (2012), 188-208.
- Thomas H. Broman, “The Habermasian Public Sphere and ‘Science in the Enlightenment,'” History of Science 36 (1998), 123-149.
- Thomas H. Broman, “Rethinking Professionalization: Theory, Practice, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century German Medicine,” The Journal of Modern History 67 (1995), 835-872.