13569 Search Results
Why Genes Don't Hold All the Answers for Biologists
![Thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/feature_story_medium/public/2018-03/file-20180309-30954-yyfm87.jpg?itok=f3B85fp3)
Computerizing Diagnosis: Minds, Medicine, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America
In 1947, the Cornell psychiatrist Keeve Brodman and a handful of colleagues began developing what would become one of the most widely used health ques
Though their Causes be not yet discover'd": Occult Traditions in the Making of Newton's Natural Philosophy
My dissertation provides a preliminary attempt to show how Newton’s natural philosophy can be seen to have emerged from the work of his predecessors.
Good Science: Epistemic Values and Scholarly Reputations in Europe, 1770–1830
The present project is aimed at confronting the processes of institutionalization, professionalization, and specialization of knowledge with the hypot
Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Context of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century
The project aims to investigate the encounter and cross-fertilization among the Eastern and Western learning traditions that constituted astronomical
The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics
Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of the concept of the gene, arguing instead for more systemic perspectives.
Mehr
Naeem Revisits Naeem et al. 1994: Reading Between the Lines of a Scientific Paper
Writing scientific papers is, arguably, the most important task in a scientist’s working life. Papers are the universal currency by which scientists a
https://reflectionsonpaperspast.wordpress.com
The Emergence of the Life Sciences Field, 1750–1914
The closing decades of the eighteenth century witnessed the start of a “second scientific revolution” in which the generalized scientific society gave
Direktorin Lorraine Daston im Gespräch mit Andreas Bönte (Bayerischer Rundfunk) zu Wissen, Wahrheit und Fake News
Zum InterviewDirector Lorraine Daston in conversation with Andreas Bönte (Bayerischer Rundfunk) on knowledge, truth, and fake news
Go to Video