JOINT MEETING BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ...

Friday, 13 July
Rebecca Bowd, University of Leeds, Marginal Men? Non-Conformity, Medical Men and
the Subscription Library Movement in Leeds in the Eighteenth Century
Jemma Lorenat, Simon Fraser University, Problems Posed
Chair: Ann E. Robinson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
PUBLIC HEALTH FROM BACTERIOLOGY TO GENOMICS
GOLKIN (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Miguel Garcia-Sancho Sanchez, Spanish National Research Council, The role of
History in the Formation of Public Health Expectations: Protein and DNA Sequencing
(1943-2000)
Eva Åhrén, Office of NIH History, Science and Sanitation: Joseph Kinyoun and the
Microbiological Turn in American Public Health, 1885-1900
Julie Brown, National Museum of American History, Health as Natural History at the
American Museum of Natural History, 1909-1922: The Failure of an Innovative Initiative
Chair: Steven Peitzman, Drexel University College of Medicine
SCIENTISTS AND THE BRITISH STATE
BODEK LOUNGE (HOUSTON, 1ST FLOOR)
Anna Carlsson-Hyslop, Cardiff University, The British State and Storm Surges, 1919-
1959
Sally Horrocks, University of Leicester, “That Was Decided for Me”: Science Graduates
and the British State from World War II to the early 1960s
Leucha Veneer, University of Manchester, Geology and Governance: Surveying the
North Sea in the Cold War
Peter Reed, Retired, London and Los Angeles Smogs Revisited: Contrasting Origins,
Actions and Controls
Chair: Peter Reed, Retired
TECHNICAL DRAWING AND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
CLASS OF ’49 (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
*Andrew J. Butrica, Chemical Heritage Foundation, The Invention and Contentious
Social Setting of Linear Drawing in France, 1815-1828
Frances Robertson, Glasgow School of Art, Delineating a Rational Profession:
Engineers and Draughtsmen as Visual Technicians in Early Nineteenth Century Britain
Josep Simon, Université Paris Ouest, Lepage like Paris: The Entangled Lives of
Science, Technology and Art in France (1841-1900)
Chair: Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University
TEMPO AND MODE IN MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY GENETICS
HALL OF FLAGS (HOUSTON, GROUND FLOOR)
Joanna Radin, University of Pennsylvania, Latent Life: Intersections between
Cryobiology and Human Genetics in the Mid-20thCentury
*Helen Curry, Yale University, The ‘Evolution Accelerator’: Colchicine in Cytogenetics
and Plant Breeding, 1937-1950
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