Globalizing the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Description
This edited volume examines recent trends towards more global and transnational research within the field of the history of science, technology, and medicine. It focuses on three major themes which are especially important to this shift in perspective: firstly, the analysis of local/global relationships; secondly, the back-and-forth movement across borders involving encounters and exchanges; and thirdly, the significance of historical actors who played a crucial role as go-betweens-especially between Europe and other regions of the world. Distinct in its breadth, this volume offers insights into a range of topics drawn from the history of science, technology, and medicine from approximately 1760 to the present.
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Hamish G. Spencer is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He is a geneticist interested in the history of eugenics, genetics and evolutionary biology. He has also written about the laws and attitudes surrounding cousin marriage.
Content
Introduction; Hugh Richard Slotten and Hamish G. Spencer.- Part I. Local and Global Relationships.- Chapter 1. The Local and the Global in Arthur de Carle Sowerby's Natural History ; Bernard Lightman and Christine Y. L. Luk.- Chapter 2. Argentine Americanization: Buenos Aires Physiologists in the Early Twentieth Century; Marcos Cueto.- Chapter 3. Implementing Global Health Policy: Eradicating Smallpox in Nepal; Susan Heydon.- Chapter 4. Links on the Ground for Eyes in the Sky: The Global and Local and the Introduction of Satellite Communications Ground Stations in Africa, 1964-1974; Hugh Richard Slotten.- Part II. Circulation, Mobility, Trade, and Exchange.- Chapter 5. Plantation Laboratory:Machinists and Scientists in Cuba from the 1830s to the 1890s; Leida Fernández-Prieto and David Pretel.- Chapter 6. The 'China Strain': Pastorian Culture in Republican China; Chien-Ling Liu Zeleny.- Chapter 7. Expertise across Borders:Transnational Technology Transfer and the Journal of the Turkish Professional Engineers Association , 1935-1940; Gokhan Tunc and Tanfer Emin Tunc.- Chapter 8. Global Trade in Human Organs: Historical Perspectives on Cornea Transplantation; Sue E. Lederer.- Part III. Go-betweens, Intermediaries, and Brokerage.- Chapter 9. Missionaries as Go-Betweens and Knowledge Brokers, 1750-2000; John Stenhouse.- Chapter 10. Science, Empire, and the Structures of Nature: Exchanging Knowledge to Understand the Botany of New Zealand in 1769; Edwin D. Rose.- Chapter 11. Colonialism, Orientalism, and the History of Science: An Exploration of Aloys Sprenger as a Go-between; Sarah Qidwai and Paul Schillinger.- Chapter 12. Global Gateways: Corporate Engineers and Commercial Satellite Infrastructure, 1969-1985; Shannon Brown.