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
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| 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->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Technical knowledge in American culture |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8272-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822318503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
History of American science and technology series.