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West Coast History of Science Society Meeting 2002 |
Friday, April 12, Room 474, Laurel Heights Campus, UCSF, 3333 California Street.
8:00 to 8:45 juice, coffee and rolls
8:45 - 9:00 welcome
9:00 -11:15 Session I
New Resources for Thinking about the History of Physics
Chair: Cathy Carson, UC Berkeley
- Kevin Lambert, UCLA, Much Ado About Nothing: Ether Anxiety and Language in Late Victorian Britain
- David Stump, University of San Francisco, Physics at the 1904 World's Fair
- Cathy Carson, UC Berkeley, Objectivity, Pluralism and Perspective: Heisenberg Between Quantum Mechanics and Social Theory
- Ronald Anderson, Boston College, Post-Structuralist Resources for Tracing Developments in Mathematical Physics
11:30 - 1:00 Session II
Adventures in Medieval Medicine
Chair: Jessica Riskin, Stanford University
Amy Lindgren, UC Davis, Violent Erections and Suffocating Wombs: Gendered Sexual Dysfunctions in Medieval Spain Ralph Drayton, UC Davis, Mediating between the Celestial and the Mundane: Medicine and Religion at Late Medieval Montpellier
1:00 - 2:00 lunch
2:30 - 4:30 Session III
Theory, Practice and Diffusion of Natural Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Chair: Paula Findlen, Stanford University
4:45 - 7:00 Session IVChen Hongxi, UC Berkeley, The Active Role of the Chinese Scientific Tradition in the Assimilation of Foreign Sciences Exemplified by the Reform of the Calendar at the End of the Ming Dynasty Celeste Chamberland, UC Davis, Women's Hands and the Art of Surgery in Seventeenth-Century London John McCaskey, Stanford University, History of the Word "Fact": Why Did "Fact" Acquire its New Meaning in the 1720's? Paula Findlen, Stanford University, The Scientist's Body: The Nature of a Woman Philosopher in Enlightenment Italy
Environmental Hazards and the Re-Engineering of Nature
Chair: Ernest Hook, UC Berkeley
7:00 - 7:45 cocktailsJoshua Dunsby, UC San Francisco, Objectiying Smog: Initial Air Pollution Research Programs in Southern California Ernest Hook, UC Berkeley, The Limits of Science and the Construction of Human Disease: The "Love Canal" Episode and its Consequences Gabriela Soto Laveaga, UC San Francisco, Steroids and Exclusion: Learning to Use Chemistry to Redefine a New, Modern "Mexican" Peasantry (1970-1977) Alex Wellerstein, UC Berkeley, The Organization of Compulsory Sterilization and Eugenics in California, 1909-1950 Monika Kurath, ETH Zurich and University of St. Gallen, Asilomar and the Ongoing Debates on Biotechnology in Europe and in the U.S.
Saturday, April 13, Skyline Room, 2nd Floor, Laurel
Heights Campus, UCSF, 3333 California Street
8:15 - 9:00 juice, coffee and rolls
9:00 -11:00 Session V
Institutional Studies in the History of Science
Chair: Robert Frank, UCLA
11:15 - 12:45 Session VIRobert Frank, UCLA, Thinking About Laboratories : 19th Century Germany and America Ki Won Han, UC Berkeley, From Biology to Oceanography: The Formation of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution Asa Anderson, UC Berkeley, Research Management at UCB in the 1960's: Freedom or Control of the Researcher? Takahiro Ueyama, Stanford University, Starting Up a Science-Based Medicine: Instrumentation of Radiation Therapy and the Formation of Stanford University Medical Center, 1952-1970
Science, Technology, Society and Business
Chair: Jessica Riskin, Stanford University
12:30 - 2:15 lunchAlex Pang, Institute for the Future, The Business of STS A. Aneesh, Stanford University, Neither Bureaucratic nor Panoptic: Algocratic Modes of Power
2:15 - 3:45 Session VI
Public Health in the 20th Century
Chair: Warwick Anderson, UC San Francisco
Eric Boyle, UC Santa Barbara, Beyond Mirage and Magic Bullets: Redefining Health in the 1960's Nicholas King, UCSF, Bioterroism, Surveillance, and American Public Health at Millennium's End
4:00 - 6:15 Session VII
Philosophy, Psychology, Quantification and the Study of Populations
Chair: Nicholas King, UC San Francisco
7:00 banquet dinnerEduardo Wilner, University of Alaska, Darwin's Experimental Unveiling of the Nature of Heritable Variation Gabriel Wolfenstein, UCLA, The Effects of "Numbering the People": The Cultural Impact of Censuses and Statistics on the Popular Imagination Richard von Mayrhauser, UC Berkeley, How Intellectual "Intelligence"? Defining and Testing Mentality in Early 20th Century Psychology Schachar Link, Stanford University, Intelligence, Science and Power: The Stanford-Binet IQ Test and the Definition of Intelligence in the Twentieth Century Susan Marie Groppi, UC Berkeley, Emerson Hall and Philosophical Psychology: a Unified Home for a Unified Science