Introducing STM

The Taiwanese Journal for Studies of

Science, Technology and Medicine

Wen-Ji WangAssociate Editor of STM

Dept. of History, National Taipei University

A Brief History of STM

• The Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy and History of Science

• Started in 1993 and ran for 10 issues

• An English journal published by Yuan-liu ( 遠流 ) Publishing House

• Fu, Daiwie 傅大為 was for sometime the editor-in-chief

A Brief History of STM

• In 1999 The Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy and History of Science was split in two journals (philosophy and STS).

• The Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine （ or the STM ，科技‧醫療與社會 ） was founded in 2001.

A Brief History of STM

• STM: A bilingual journal for the interdisciplinary studies of science, technology and medicine from the Taiwanese or the East-Asian perspective

• Published twice a year (April and October) by the National Science and Technology Museum ( 國立科學工藝博物館 )

A Brief History of STM

• Special interests

– how the Taiwanese and Chinese understand and control Nature

– how they build their scientific, technological and medical systems

A Brief History of STM

– how Western systems of knowledge and practice have been transferred to Taiwan and China, and vice versa

– and how the Taiwanese and Chinese deal with STM-related issues in their culturally and historically specific contexts

• Yet related articles on other countries are also welcome

A Brief History of STM

• The former editors:

Chu, Pingyi ( 祝平一 ) March 2001

history of science and medicine

Wu, Chyuan-yuan ( 吳泉源 ) March 2002

sociology of technology

Lin, Chung-hsi ( 林崇熙 ) September 2005

technology studies

A Content Analysis of the former issues

• So far, 3 issues• Number of articles: 11 (2 in English)

– Technology studies: 4– History of medicine: 3– History of science: 1– Science and Gender: 1– Technological policy: 1– Historiography: 1

Table of contentsIssue 1

• ‘Silent Technology: Self-Assembled Trailers in the Tainan Basin’

• ‘Knowledge Mobilization in the Land Reclamation Project at Mai-Liao Sixth Naphtha Cracker Project’

• ‘Leibniz’s Legacy in the Physics of the Enlightenment’

• ‘Pulsology and Officialdom ( 王官 ) during the Zhou and Qin Dynasties’

Table of contentsIssue 2

• ‘The Invisible Technique: The Socio-Technical History of Cultivating Wax Apples’

• ‘The Social and Economic Origins of Technological Catch-up: A Case Study of the Taiwanese Computer Industry in the Late 1980s’

• ‘Wujin Medicine Remembered: Memory, Identity and Social Networks in Chinese Medicine, 1800-2000’

Table of contentsIssue 3

• ‘Deliberative Democracy, Technological Policy and Public Discussion’

• ‘Gender Politics of Technology: Theory and Research’

• ‘From Opium Gentleman to Experimental Sample: Opium Users and Modern Medicine in Taiwan’

• ‘Foucault, Ginzburg and Writing the History of the Excluded’

The current editors from July 2006 onwards

• Editor-in-chief:

Chen, Ruey-Lin 陳瑞麟 (philosophy of science)

• Associate Editor:

Wang, Wen-Ji 王文基 (history of science and medicine)

The editorial board

• Fu, Daiwie 傅大為 (history of science and medicine, gender)• Chu, Pingyi 祝平一 (history of science and medicine)• Chen, Hsin-Hsing 陳信行 (STS, social movement)• Huang, Jun-Fu 黃俊夫 (museology, science education)• Chou, Kuei-Tien 周桂田 (risk society, technology and democ

racy)• Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin 雷祥麟 (history of medicine)• Wu, Chia-Ling 吳嘉苓 (medical sociology, gender studies )• Lin, Yi-Ping 林宜平 (medical anthropology, public health,

risk)

The constitution of the current editorial board

• Historians and sociologists outnumber the others

• In addition, we have scholars from the fields of philosophy of science, science education, social studies of risk, and public health

• Nevertheless, the constitution doesn’t exactly represent the complicated and dynamic structure of the STS community in Taiwan

STM in the near future

• Issue 4: general articles (April 2007)

• Issue 5: ‘Technology and Risk’ (October 2007)

• Issue 6: ‘Energy and Society’ (April 2008)

• Issue 7: ‘Exhibiting Technologies’ (October 2008)

Submission and Subscription

• For submission and subscription, please contact Wen-Ji Wang,wjwang@mail.ntpu.edu.tw

Or visit the website of the Taiwanese STS Virtual Community台灣 STS虛擬社群http://sts.nthu.edu.tw/