2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

HSS 2000 Program
Saturday, 4 November
1:30 p.m.—3:10 p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Saturday, 4 November
Displaying Biomedical Authority in Modern Anglo-American Culture
Session cosponsored by the American Association for the History of
Medicine
(Prince of Wales)
Erin␣ H. McLeary, University of Pennsylvania, War Pathologies/the Pathology
of War: Museum Collecting in the First World War
Ock-Joo␣ C. Kim, Harvard University, Knowledge Out of Suffering: Harvey
Cushing’s Brain Tumor Registry
Marianne␣ P.␣ Fedunkiw Stevens, Institute for History and Philosophy of
Science and Technology, Malaria and 20th Century Medicine: Fighting Disease
with Film, 1940-2000
CHAIR: Rima Apple, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Constructing Cells and Growing Organisms
Topics in the History of Cytology and Developmental Biology II
(Plaza West)
*Manfred␣ D. Laubichler, Princeton University, From a Developmental Point
of View: Theories of Development in the Conception of Theoretical Biology
Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University, On the Organism in Development
and Heredity
Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth College, Johannes Holtfreter and the Politics
of Gastrulation
Sabine Brauckmann, University of Muenster, Chemical Embryology: The
Search for the Organizer
CHAIR: Gerald␣ L. Geison, Princeton University
Physics in 20th-Century Europe:
From the Classical World to the Quantum Universe
(Regency Centre)
Robert␣ G. Arns, University of Vermont, Persistence of Belief in a Mechanical
Ether in the Twentieth Century
Theodore Arabatzis, Dibner Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and University of Athens, The “Discovery” of the Electron and the Atomism
Debate
Scott␣ D. Tanona, Indiana University, Bohr’s Correspondence Principle:
Deducing Atomic Structure from Spectral Phenomena
Frans␣ H. van␣ Lunteren, Utrecht University, Paul Ehrenfest and Dutch Physics
in the Interbellum Period
CHAIR: J.␣ C. Evans, University of Puget Sound
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