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Constructing Spaceship Earth
In Constructing Spaceship Earth, Perrin Selcer explores how and why scientists affiliated with UN agencies made the global-scale environment a so
Embodying Color: How Color is Made, Mobilized, and Owned in Traditional Craft Practice in South India
Craft producers in India stand in the shadow of deep divisions: rich/poor, urban/rural, modern/traditional, Brahmin/Dalit, educated scientist/illitera
Dyeing for Permanence: Communities of Practice and the Making of Bingata
Celebrated as a traditional Okinawan craft, bingata (vermilion patterns) refers to a technique of printing colorful and intricate patterns on fabric t
A Historical and Critical Neuroscience of Music
Over the past twenty years neuroscience huge strides have been made in our understanding of how the brain reacts to music, and representations of musi
Crystals, Colloids, and Fibers: The Organization of (Living) Matter and the Limits of Microscopic Vision, 1882–1938
What does it mean for living matter to be “organized”? For much of the nineteenth century it was assumed that the complexity of vital phenomena corres
Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire
European identity is inextricable from Europe’s views about other peoples. During the early modern period, overseas artifacts entered princely and sch
Betwixt and Between: Sound in the Humanities and Sciences
The broad domain of acoustics that emerged in academic life throughout the modern era is usually categorized as part of the natural sciences. Yet the
Events, Betwixt and Between: Sound in the Humanities and Sciences, February 2018, More, Vossius Center for History of Humanities and Sciences
Fluorophores and Electronic Imaging in Cell Biology, 1945–95
This project foregrounded the tool of light in the history of molecular biology by offering an historical analysis of the coupling of fluorescence lig
Publications, "Transitive Light and Digital Pictures: Fluorophores and Electronic Imaging in Cell Biology During the 1980s”, HSS 2003 Annual Meeting, November 23, 2003.
Epidemiology, Chronic Diseases, and the Risk Factor Approach since the 1920s: Shifts in our Concepts of Health and Disease
One of the main sources of contemporary issues around the definitions of health and disease is the importance of the “risk approach” to disease and of
Funding Institutions, Fondation des Treilles
Exploring the As Yet Unknown in Historical Epistemology, Experimental Systems and Contemporary Nutrition
This manuscript project concerned the material and conceptual conditions for the emergence of vitamins as new scientific objects within experimental s
Funding Institutions, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada