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History of American Science Samantha Muka

Examiner: Susan Lindee

Careers

Abir-Am, Pnina G. and Outram, Dorinda. Uneasy careers and intimate lives: women in science,

1789-1979. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Clarke, Adele and Fujimura, Joan H. The right tools for the job: at work in twentieth-century life

sciences. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Kevles, Daniel J. The physicists: the history of a scientific community in modern America.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Palladino, Paolo. Entomology, ecology, and agriculture: the making of scientific careers in North

America, 1885-1985. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.

Rossiter, Margaret W. Women scientists in America: before affirmative action, 1940-1972.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Rossiter, Margaret W. The emergence of agricultural science: Justus Liebig and the Americans,

1840-1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.

Rossiter, Margaret W. Women scientists in America: struggles and strategies to 1940. Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Traweek, Sharon. Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists. Cambridge,

Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Institutions

Kleinman, Daniel Lee. Impure cultures: university biology and the world of commerce. Madison,

Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Kohler, Robert. “The Ph.D. Machine: Building on the Collegiate Base.” Isis 81: 638–662.

Kohler, Robert E. Partners in science: foundations and natural scientists, 1900-1945. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Leslie, Stuart W. The Cold War and American science: the military-industrial-academic complex

at MIT and Stanford. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Nyhart, Lynn K. Biology takes form: animal morphology and the German universities, 1800-

1900. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

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Gender

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge,

1990.

Cohn, Carol. “War, Wimps and Women: Talk Gender and Thinking War,” in Gendering War

Talk, edited by Miriam Cooke and Angela Coolacott, 227-246. Princeton: Princeton

University Press, 1993.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New

York, NY: Basic Books, 2000.

Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York:

Routledge, 1991.

Harding, Sandra G. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political

Controversies. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Jordanova, L. J. Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the

Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San

Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980.

Scott, Joan. “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” The American Historical

Review 91: 1053–1075.

Biology

Benson, Keith Rodney, Maienschein, Jane, and Rainger, Ronald. The Expansion of American

Biology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Maienschein, Jane. Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915. Baltimore: Johns

Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Pauly, Philip J. Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1987.

Pauly, Philip J. Biologists and the promise of American life: from Meriwether Lewis to Alfred

Kinsey. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Rosenberg, Charles E. No other gods: on science and American social thought, Rev. and

expanded edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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Classification

Bowker, Geoffrey C and Star, Susan Leigh. Sorting things out: classification and its

consequences. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999.

Daston, Lorraine and Park, Katharine. Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750. New York:

Zone Books, 1998.

Foucault, Michel. The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences. New York:

Pantheon Books, 1970.

Ritvo, Harriet. The platypus and the mermaid, and other figments of the classifying imagination.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Scott, James C. Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have

failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Evolution

Bowler, Peter J. The eclipse of Darwinism: anti-Darwinian evolution theories in the decades

around 1900. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

Browne, E. J. Charles Darwin: a biography, 1st ed edition. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Desmond, Adrian J.. The politics of evolution: morphology, medicine, and reform in radical

London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Mayr, Ernst. The Growth of Biological Thought: diversity, evolution, and inheritance.

Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1982.

Richards, Robert J. The Romantic Conception of Life: science and philosophy in the age of

Goethe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Secord, James A. Victorian Sensation: the extraordinary publication, reception, and secret

authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 2000.

Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty. Unifying biology: the evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary

biology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Genetics

Abir-Am, Pnina. “The Discourse of Physical Power and Biological Knowledge in the 1930s: A

Reappraisal of the Rockefeller Foundation’s ‘Policy’ in Molecular Biology” (1982)

------.“The Politics of Macromolecules: Molecular Biologists, Biochemists, and Rhetoric” (1992)

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Comfort, Nathaniel C. The tangled field: Barbara McClintock's search for the patterns of genetic

control. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Fortun, Michael and Everett Mendelsohn, editors. The practices of human genetics. Dordrecht:

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

Kay, Lily E. The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of

the new biology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Kay, Lily E. Who wrote the book of life?: a history of the genetic code. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford

University Press, 2000.

Keller, Evelyn Fox. The century of the gene. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Keller, Evelyn Fox. Refiguring life: metaphors of twentieth-century biology. New York:

Columbia University Press, 1995.

Kevles, Daniel J and Leroy E. Hood. The Code of codes: scientific and social issues in the

Human Genome Project. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Lindee, M. Susan. Suffering made real: American science and the survivors at Hiroshima.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Lindee, M. Susan. Moments of truth in genetic medicine. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins

University Press, 2005.

Nelkin, Dorothy and M. Susan Lindee. The DNA mystique: the gene as a cultural icon. New

York: Freeman, 1995.

Provine, William B.. The origins of theoretical population genetics. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 1971.

Rapp, Rayna. Testing women, testing the fetus: the social impact of amniocentesis in America.

New York: Routledge, 1999.

Eugenics

Currell, Susan and Christina Cogdell. Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American

Mass Culture in the 1930s. Ohio University Press: Athens, Ohio, 2006.

Kevles, Daniel J. In the name of eugenics: genetics and the uses of human heredity. New York:

Knopf, 1985.

Lombardo, Paul A. Three generations, no imbeciles: eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v.

Bell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

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Paul, Diana. Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present. Humanity Books: New York,

1995.

Stern, Alexandra. Eugenic nation: faults and frontiers of better breeding in the United States.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Models

Chadarevian, Soraya de and Hopwood, Nick. Models: the third dimension of science. Stanford,

Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Creager, Angela N. H. The life of a virus: tobacco mosaic virus as an experimental model, 1930-

1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Hacking, Ian. “Making People Up,” in The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagoli,

161-172. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Igo, Sarah Elizabeth. The Averaged American: surveys, citizens, and the making of a mass

public. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Kohler, Robert E. Lords of the fly: Drosophila genetics and the experimental life. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Porter, Theodore M.. Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Rader, Karen A. Making mice: standardizing animals for American biomedical research, 1900-

1955. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Ecology

Barrow, Mark V. Nature's ghosts: confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of

ecology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Cronon, William. Uncommon ground: toward reinventing nature. New York: W.W. Norton &

Co., 1995.

Cronon, William. Nature's metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton,

1991.

Cronon, William. Changes in the land: Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England. 20th

anniversary edition. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.

Kingsland, Sharon E. The evolution of American ecology, 1890-2000. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins

University Press, 2005.

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Mitman, Gregg. The state of nature: ecology, community, and American social thought, 1900-

1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Worster, Donald. Nature's economy: a history of ecological ideas, 2nd edition. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Field Sciences

Barrow, Mark V.. A passion for birds: American ornithology after Audubon. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 1998.

Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Primate visions: gender, race, and nature in the world of modern

science. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Kohler, Robert E. Landscapes & labscapes: exploring the lab-field border in biology. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Kuklick, Henrika and Robert E. Kohler, eds. Science in the Field. Osiris 11 (1996).

Star, Susan and Griesemer, James. “Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects:

Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39.” Social

Studies of Science 19: 387–420.

Collecting and Displaying

Baudrillard, Jean. “The System of Collecting” Translated by Roger Cardinal. J. Elsner and

Roger Cardinal, Editors. The Culture of Collecting London: Reaktion, 1994.

Clifford, James. “On Collecting Art and Culture” in The Predicament of Culture:

Twentieth-century Ethnography, literature and art., 1988.

Conn, Steven. Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 1998.

Dilworth, Leah. Acts of Possession: Collecting in America. Rutgers University Press: Rutgers

NJ, 2003.

Grier, Katherine C. Pets in America: A History. University of North Carolina Press: Durham,

2006.

Hanson, Elizabeth. Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos Princeton NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2002.

Kete, Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudoir: Pet keeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris Berkeley:

University of California Press, 1994.

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Orosz, Joel J. Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870.

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.

Rader, Karen A. and Victoria E.M. Cain. “From natural history to science: display and the

transformation of American museums of science and nature.” Museum and Society vol. 6 no.

2 (July, 2008) pp.152-171.

Animal/Human encounters

Benson, Etienne. Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern

Wildlife. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 2010.

Datson, Lorraine and Gregg Mitman, editors. Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on

Anthromorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. (selected chapters)

Davis, Susan G. Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Helmreich, Stefan. Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. University of

California Press: Los Angeles and Berkeley, 2009.

Mitman, Gregg Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge MA:

Harvard University Press, 1999.

Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate: The English and other creatures in the Victorian Age.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Rothfels, Nigel ed. Representing Animals. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.