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Coffee Break (3:30 – 4:00 pm) 4:00 – 6:00 pm Ownership and Invention of Medical Technologies Chair/Commentator: Iwan Rhys Morus, Aberystwyth University 1. “‘A Barrier to Medical Treatment’? British Medical Practitioners and the Patent Controversy, 1880-1920,” Claire Jones, University of Warwick 2. “Hearing Aids at the Historical Nexus of Patenting, Prosthetics, Physics and Physiology,” Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds 3. “Overbeck’s ‘Rejuvenator’: Marketing Electrotherapy Devices Beyond the Medical Profession in the Early Twentieth Century,” *James F. Stark, University of Leeds “Improving” the Climate in the Early-Modern North Atlantic World Chair: Jennifer Steenshorne, Columbia University 1. “Writing the Wilderness in the Early-Modern English Atlantic,” Keith Pluymers, University of Southern California 2. “Climate Improvement and Cultivation in Colonial Canada, 1742-1867,” Victoria C. Slonosky, McGill University 3. “ ‘The Pisspot of Europe’: Rains, Mists, and Bogs in the Anglo-Irish Imagination,” *Brant Vogel, Independent Scholar Mechanism, Life, and Embodiment in Early Modern Science Chair: *Charles T. Wolfe, University of Ghent Commentator: Peter Distelzweig, University of Pittsburgh 1. “The Fire without Light: The Non-Mechanical Foundation of Descartes’ Mechanical Physiology,” Barnaby Hutchins, University of Ghent 2. “Descartes on the Heartbeat: The Leuven Controversy,” Lucian Petrescu, University of Ghent 3. “Bloody Analogical Reasoning. The Role of Analogical Reasoning in William Harvey’s Discoveries,” Dagmar Provijn, University of Ghent 4. “Teleomechanism Redux? The Conceptual Hybridity of Living Machines in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,” *Charles T. Wolfe, University of Ghent Textbooks Chair: TBD 1. “Textbook Physics: An Examination of Early 20th Century Medical Pedagogy,” Vivien Hamilton, Harvey Mudd College 2. “From Fertilization to Birth: Representing Twentieth Century Development in High School Biology Textbooks,” Karen Wellner, Arizona State University Science and Government in the Cold War Chair: TBD 1. “The Scientific Debate over Water Fluoridation: Optimism, Risk and Public Health,” Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph
2. “ ‘They Do It in a Different Way: Personal Experiences of Transatlantic Cooperation in Science and Engineering in the Cold War,” Thomas Lean, The British Library 3. “De-Mobbing British Oceanography: The Royal Navy and the Establishment of National Institute of Oceanography,” Sam Robinson, University of Manchester 4. “The National Science Foundation Confronts Segregation: Discrimination at the Teachers' Institutes,” Marc Rothenberg, National Science Foundation Recasting 20th Century Physics Chair: TBD 1. “Parody Conservation: The Tradition of Humor at the Niels Bohr Institute,” Paul Halpern, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia 2. “Untangling Entanglement: Probability, Stalinism, and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mysticism,” Alexei Kojevnikov, University of British Columbia 3. “Ida Noddack and the Fission Proposal: The Actor’s Perspective,” Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Université Catholique de Louvain 4. “ ‘...A Cleanly Cut Piece of Solid Light’: Remembering the Long-Forgotten Spectroscopic Study of Radium Glow by William and Margaret Huggins,” Barbara Becker, University of California, Irvine Human, Animal, and Machine Chair: TBD 1. “The Human and the Animal: Looking at The Descent of Man through Foucault’s Archeology,” Teofilo Espada-Brignonin, University of Puerto Rico 2. “Reassessing the Human Automatism Debate in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Francis Neary, University of Cambridge 3. “Apeman, Spaceman: 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Dawn of Man,” Robert Poole, University of Cumbria Plenary Session – 6:30 to 8:00 pm State of the Profession Roundtable This session will reflect on the current state of the profession and discipline of the history of science, in transatlantic perspective. One of the joys of the Three Societies meetings is the opportunity to step outside our usual national communities. This session will create a forum for a reflexive look at ourselves as a community of academics. Recent research on academic disciplines, institutions and professional communities has used approaches that will be familiar to any sociologically-inclined historian of science who has investigated the membership, behavioral norms, reward schemes, career structures and reputation of past communities of scientists. Why not apply the same techniques to ourselves? Tony Becher described academics as belonging to ‘tribes’ and having ‘territories’: what sort of a tribe are historians of science, what is our territory, and what struggles do we face to maintain our authority over that territory? Each of the three speakers will give a short talk engaging with these issues from their own personal, disciplinary and national contexts. The floor will then be open for what ought to be a vigorous audience discussion.
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