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The Expanding Scope of History of Science: Doctoral Dissertations. Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D. History of Medicine Librarian Health Science Library System Assistant Professor Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh. Purposes.
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The Expanding Scope of History of Science: Doctoral Dissertations Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D. History of Medicine Librarian Health Science Library System Assistant Professor Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh
Purposes • To identify the numerous disciplines that address the history of science agenda • To discuss the value of various research methodologies used with history of science primary materials • To examine what expanding the study of history of science means to the future of this discipline
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The national laboratory system in the United States, 1947 - 1962 by Peter James Westwick, PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Principles and problems: Constructions of theoretical physics in Germany, 1890 - 1918 by Suman Seth, PhD Princeton University, 2003
'Wizards of the micro-waves': A history of the radio astronomy community by David Peter Dell Munns, PhD Johns Hopkins University, 2003
Science under siege: Joseph Henry's Smithsonian, 1846 - 1865 by Michael Francis Conlin, PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
The watchword is science: Portrayal of science in 'Scientific American', 1921 - 1986 by Mary Carol Zuegner, PhD University of Tennessee, 1999
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