Date/Time
Saturday - Monday
5 May - 7 May 2001
Location
470 Stephens Hall
Event Type
Conference
West Coast HSS is an informal and supportive gathering that particularly welcomes graduate students, postdocs, and independent scholars. It rotates among West Coast schools, meeting this time at UCLA. Participants from beyond the West Coast are warmly encouraged to attend.
This year’s gathering will be wrapped around a session of the Southern California Colloquium in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology on Saturday, April 28.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
Clark Library
9:30 — Coffee and rolls
10:00 — Modern Medicine and Its Uses
ERNEST B. HOOK
UC Berkeley
Inhalation Anesthesia as a “Postmature Discovery”: Social Porosity in a “Developing” Society as a Predisposing Factor to Multiple “Belated” Medical Discovery?
ERIC BOYLE
UC Santa Barbara
Widening the Divide Between Orthodox and Alternative Medicine: The Flexner Report of 1910
KENNETH OGREN
University of Umea, Sweden, and UCLA
The Histories of Lobotomy – An Example from Sweden, with Some Reflections on the Discourse and Historiography of the Surgery of the Brain for Mental Disorder
12:00 — Buffet lunch
1:00 — Scientific Thought in American Society
RICHARD T. VON MAYRHAUSER
Independent Scholar
From Oral Recitation to Written Examination: the Forgotten Failure of Horace Mann’s Educational Reforms, 1836-1845
SUSAN MARIE GROPPI
UC Berkeley
Philosophy and Data: G. Stanley Hall and Hugo Munsterberg before the Boston Schoolmaster’s Club
MATTHEW C. ABERMAN
UC Santa Barbara
Nuclear-Pulse Propulsion: Cold War Fantasy and Cold War Casualty
GREG WHITESIDES
UC Santa Barbara
Science, Scientists and Secularization: The Development of Bioethics
3:40 — Break
4:00 — Revisiting Scientific Classics
AVNER BEN-ZAKEN
UCLA
Copernicus in the Ottoman Empire: Peculiarities and Possibilities
ERIC CASTEEL
UCLA
Epicureans, Anabaptists & Atheists – Treasonous Politics and Scientific Influence from Melanchthon to Bacon
ANNA CAROLINA K. P. REGNER
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and Stanford University
Darwin in the Origin of Species: Challenging the Patterns of Scientific Explanation
6:00 — Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 28
314 Royce Hall
The Southern California Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
10:00 — Science, Technology and Economic Development: How Tight is the Fit?
JOEL MOKYR, Northwestern University
The Industrial Revolution: An Economist Looks at Intellectual and Cultural Factors
ALICE H. AMSDEN, MIT
Adding Foreign vs. National Ownership to Technology and Development: Is the Fit Better?
NAOMI R. LAMOREAUX and KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UCLA
The Rise and Decline of Patenting in the United States
DAVID REID, University of North Florida, and MARGARET JACOB, UCLA
Technical Knowledge and the Mental Universe of the Early Cotton Manufacturers
Participants are asked to read the precirculated papers in advance. These will be available at http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/jacob/colloquium/index.html; follow the links to the program for April 28. User Name: colloquium, Password: science
A buffet lunch will be served mid-day.
6:00 — Banquet
SUNDAY, APRIL 29
Center for the Health Sciences
Louise Darling Biomedical Library, History Division
9:30 — Coffee and rolls
10:00 — Politics and Science in 20th-Century Germany: New Work and Reflections
JOCHEN KIRCHHOFF
Deutsches Museum, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, and UC Berkeley
Science Policy in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
GREGORY B. MOYNAHAN
UC Berkeley and Bard College
Political Animals: Adolf Meyer-Abich and the Development of Theoretical Biology in Germany 1928-1955