STS Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Reading List

STS Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Reading List Revised DRAFT, 2009

History of Science and Technology

Note: items in red may be dropped from the list

Anderson, Warwick. 2003. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. Basic Books.

Biagioli, Mario. 1993. Galileo, Courtier. University of Chicago.

Bowler, Peter J., 1988. The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr., 1977. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, 1983. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books.

Desmond, Adrian. The Politics of Evolution. 1989.

Douglas, Susan J. Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. Johns Hopkins, 1987.

Edwards, Paul N., 1996. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Foucault, Michel, 1970. The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Random House.

Galison, Peter, 2003. Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps. W.W. Norton.

Galison, Peter, 1977. Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (selections).

Galison, Peter and Bruce Hevly, editors, 1992. Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Golinski, Jan. Making Natural Knowledge. 1998.

Green, Venus. 2001. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hankins, Thomas L., 1985. Science and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hays, Samuel, 1987. Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hays, J. N., 1997. The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Heilbron, J.L., The Dilemmas of Upright Man. 2000.

Hounshell, David A., 1984. From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hughes, Thomas, 1989, 1990. American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. New York: Viking, Penguin.

Jardine, Lisa. 1999. Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution.

Kevles, Daniel, 1978, 1995. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Kohler, Robert E. 1994. Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life.

Kragh, Helge, 1987. An Introduction to the Historiography of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kuhn, Thomas S., 1957, 1985. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Lindberg, David C. 1992. The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450. University of Chicago Press.

Lloyd, G.E.R. 1999. Magic, Reason, and Experience: Studies in the Origins and Development of Greek Science.

Merchant, Carolyn, 1980. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Harper & Row Publishers.

Noble, David, 1977. America by Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism. New York: Knopf.

Pacey, Arnold, 1992. The Maze of Ingenuity, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Porter, Theodore M., 1994. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Rossiter, Margaret W. 1998. Women Scientists in America, Volume II: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972. Johns Hopkins.

Schiebinger, Londa, 1989. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in Origins of Modern Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Shapin, Steven, 1996. The Scientific Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Shapin, Steve and Simon Schaffer, 1985. Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Thackray, Arnold, ed., 1995. Constructing Knowledge in the History of Science. Osiris 10. Articles by Daston, Keller, Kohlstedt, Nickles, Warner, Nersessian, and Brush.

Wailoo, Keith. 1999. Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in the Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Articles

Forman, Paul, 1991. “Independence, Not Transcendence, for the Historian of Science.” Isis 82: 71-86

Golinski, Jan, 1990. “The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory: Sociological Approaches in the History of Science,” Isis 81:492-505.