2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

HSS 2000 Program
Friday, 3 November
1:30 p.m.—3:10 p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Friday, 3 November
18th and 19th-Century German physiology and philosophy
(Brighton)
Monica Libell, Lund University, Sweden, Physiology, Civilization and the
Pain of Vivisection
Nancy␣ A. Anderson, University of Michigan, One Complex Amoeba: Image,
Imagination, Cell Theory and the Bioplasson Doctrine
CHAIR: Sylvia McGrath, Stephen F. Austin University
Psychology and Society in Mid-20th Century America
Session cosponsored by the Forum for the History of Human Science
(Plaza Centre)
John Carson, University of Michigan, Peace Work: Intelligence, Merit, and
the Limits of Democracy
Sarah␣ E. Igo, Princeton University, Arguing with Gallup: Popular Challenges
to ‘Scientific’ Polling, 1936-1948
Wade␣ E. Pickren, American Psychological Association, Life and the “Age of
Psychology”: The Public Image of Psychology in the 1950s
Nathan␣ L. Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania, Chess Players, Music
Lovers, and Mathematicians: Towards a Psychological Profile of the Ideal
Computer Scientist
CHAIR: Elizabeth Lunbeck, Princeton University
Growing and Knowing:
Science, Standardization, and American Youth
(Plaza West)
*Heather Munro␣ Prescott, Central Connecticut State University, “I Was a
Teen-Age Dwarf,” or What is “Normal” Adolescent Development?
Susan␣ A. Miller, University of Pennsylvania, Health in the Balance: Learning
Lessons from the Landscape at Girls’ Summer Camps, 1910-1930
Elizabeth␣ A. Toon, Cornell University, Measuring Up: Schoolchildren and
Representations of Physical Growth in the Interwar United States
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Sarah␣ W. Tracy, University of Oklahoma
Readers, Writers, and Audiences, 1500—1900
(Regency Centre)
Richard␣ D. Cunningham, Pennsylvania State University, Moveable Visual
Images and Active Reading Practices in the Education of Sixteenth-Century
English Navigators
Nicole␣ C. Howard, Indiana University, The King, the Courtier and the
Clockmaker: Christiaan Huygens and Interpretations of Audience
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