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Technical knowledge in American culture : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s / / edited by Hamilton Cravens, Alan I Marcus, and David M. Katzman



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Titolo: Technical knowledge in American culture : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s / / edited by Hamilton Cravens, Alan I Marcus, and David M. Katzman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1996
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 306.4/6/097309034
306.460973
Soggetto topico: Medicine - United States - History - 19th century
Medicine - United States - History - 20th century
Medicine - United States - History
Science - United States - History - 19th century
Science - United States - History - 20th century
Science - United States - History
Technology - United States - History - 19th century
Technology - United States - History - 20th century
Technology - United States - History
Altri autori: CravensHamilton  
KatzmanDavid M  
MarcusAlan I <1949->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-252) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Technical Knowledge in American Culture: An Analysis; PART ONE: THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC CULTURE, 1800-1870; I. The Ohio Mechanic's Institute: The Challenge of Incivility in the Democratic Republic; 2. The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853; 3. From Individual Practitioner to Regular Physician: Cincinnati Medical Societies and the Problem of Definition among Mid-Nineteenth-Century Americans; PART TWO: THE AGE OF HIERARCHY, 1870-1920
4. Diagnosing Unnatural Motherhood: Nineteenth-Century Physicians and ""Puerperal Insanity""5· The Inventor of the Mustache Cup: James Emerson and Populist Technology, 1870-1900; 6. Race-ism and the City: The Young Du Bois and the Role of Place in Social Theory, 1893-1901; 7· The German-American Science of Racial Nutrition, 1870-1920; PART THREE: TOWARD AN INFINITY OF DIMENSIONS; 8. The Case of the Manufactured Morons: Science and Social Policy in Two Eras, 1934-1966; 9· Responding to the Airplane: Urban Rivalry, Metropolitan Regionalism, and Airport Development in Dallas, 1927-1965
10. Unanticipated Aftertaste: Cancer, the Role of Science, and the Question of DES Beef in Late Twentieth-Century American Culture Afterword; Notes; Contributors; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Technical Knowledge in American Culture addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture, society, and era. These essays challenge the social impact model by looking at science, technology, and medicine not as social activities but as intellectual activities.
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ISBN: 0-8173-8272-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822318503321
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Serie: History of American science and technology series.