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Overview""More than anyone else, [Rosenberg] has moved medicine from the periphery of the historical enterprise to a position much nearer the center. Around the world he is recognized as the leading medical historian of the late twentieth century.""--Ronald L. Numbers, 'Isis' In its original edition, 'No Other Gods' offered a pioneering and influential examination of the ways in which social institutions and values shaped American scientific practice and thought. In this revised and expanded edition, Rosenberg directs our attention to the dilemma posed by the social study of science: How can we reconcile the scientist's understanding of science as a quest for truth and knowledge with the historian's conviction that all knowledge bears the marks of the culture which gave it birth? ""When 'No Other Gods' first appeared in 1976 scholars praised its wide ranging yet coherent history of scientific enterprise and the multiple identities of science in American life. From Rosenberg our students learned to contextualize and discipline their historical inquiries. Today the book secures a dimension that was once ironically obscured by its breadth and our optimism and we see that Rosenberg has brilliantly exposed and emphasized the ambiguous moral contours of practice empowered by knowledge.""--Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz, Harvard University ""'No Other Gods' had a tremendous impact on me when I started to teach and write about the many patterns in which science and American life are woven into each other. Rosenberg helped teach us how to pay attention to the rich detail and thick complexity of scientific and medical practice as an intrinsic part of culture.""--Donna Haraway, University of California at Santa Cruz Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles E. Rosenberg (Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Edition: revised and expanded edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.482kg ISBN: 9780801855986ISBN 10: 0801855985 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 20 June 1997 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface: Science in Play Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgements Introduction: Science, Society and Social Thought Part I: Science, Authority, and the Logic of Social Explanation Chapter 1. The Bitter Fruit: Heredity, Disease, and Social Thought Chapter 2. The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Women Chapter 3. Sexuality, Class, and Role Chapter 4. Charles Benedict Davenport and the Irony of American Eugenics Chapter 5. George M. Beard and American Nervousness Chapter 6. Piety and Social Action: Some Origins of the American Public Health Movement Chapter 7. Martin Arrowsmith: The Scientist as Hero Part II: Institutional Forms and Social Values Chapter 8. Science and Social Values in Nineteenth-Century America: A Case Study in the Growth of Scientific Institutions Chapter 9. Science, Technology, and Economic Growth: The Case of the Agricultural Experiment Station Scientist, 1875–1914 Chapter 10. The Adams Act: Politics and the Cause of Scientific Research Chapter 11. Unintended Consequences: The Ideological Shaping of American Agricultural Research, 1875–1914 Chapter 12. Science Pure and Science Applied: Two Studies in the Social Origin of Scientific Research Chapter 13. The Social Environment of Scientific Innovation: Factors in the Development of Genetics in the United States Chapter 14. Toward an Ecology of Knowledge: On Discipline, Context, and History Chapter 15. Woods or Trees? Ideas and Actors in the History of Science Notes IndexReviewsNo Other Gods... is an excellent and important book. It ought to be read by a far larger community than that professionally concerned with the social history of science in America. Especially, it should be standard reading for all those practically concerned with the sociological treatment of natural knowledge, and it may be read as implicit sociology of knowledge. -- Steve Shapin * Times Literary Supplement * More than anyone else, [Rosenberg] has moved medicine from the periphery of the historical enterprise to a position much nearer the center. Around the world he is recognized as the leading medical historian of the late twentieth century. -- Ronald L. Numbers * Isis * Charles Rosenberg is one of the finest social historians of medicine in the world. --David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley 'No Other Gods'...is an excellent and important book. It ought to be read by a far larger community than that professionally concerned with the social history of science in America. Especially, it should be standard reading for all those practically concerned with the sociological treatment of natural knowledge, and it may be read as implicit sociology of knowledge. --Steve Shapin, 'Times Literary Supplement' Author InformationCharles E. Rosenberg is the Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of numerous books, including The Cholera Years and The Care of Strangers. He was recently honored with the History of Science Society's Sarton Medal, its most prestigious award. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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