2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Saturday, 4 November
HSS 2000 Program
Representations and Reality:
Iconography and Gendered Careers in Science
Session sponsored by the HSS Women’s Caucus
(Balmoral)
Maura␣ C. Flannery, St. John’s University, The Lab Coat: Symbol of Science
as a Male Pursuit
Robert Hendrick, St. John’s University, Gender Stereotyping in Visual Images
of French Science Popularization, 1870-1914
Abena Osseo-Asare, Harvard University, Gender and Workplace in the Gold
Coast
Marianne␣ Gosztonyi Ainley, University of Northern British Columbia,
Gendered Careers? Canadian Women in Science, 1890-1970
Elizabeth Hanson, The Rockefeller University, Women Scientists at the
Rockefeller Institute: A Collective Biography
Chair: Amy Slaton, Drrxel University
ORGANIZED BY: Abha Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Spaces of Health and Illness
Session cosponsored by the American Association for the History of
Medicine
(Regency Centre)
Conevery␣ Bolton Valencius, Washington University, Inside, Outside, Valley,
Field: Miasmas and Healthy Places in the Antebellum U.S.
*Gregg Mitman, University of Minnesota, Hay Fever Holiday: Health,
Leisure, and Place in Gilded Age America
Scott Kirsch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Harold Knapp and
the Ad Hoc Working Group on Radioiodine in the Environment: Contested
Spaces
Michelle Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Buildings
for Bodies: Ordinary Places, Chemical Exposures, and the Politics of
(Im)Perceptibility in the Late Twentieth Century U.S.
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Christopher␣ C. Sellers, SUNY, Stony Brook
Constructing Cells and Growing Organisms
Topics in the History of Cytology and Developmental Biology I
(Regency West)
Frederick␣ B. Churchill, Indiana University, Situating a New Science:
Boveri and the Embryological Analysis of Chromosomes
*Marsha␣ L. Richmond, Wayne State University, Cell Theory on the Eve of
Genetics
James␣ E. Strick, Arizona State University, The Cell and the Origin of Life:
H. C. Bastian’s Ideas, 1880-1915
Susan␣ B. Spath, University of California, Berkeley, A New Cell Theory in
1962: The Procaryote/Eucaryote Distinction
CHAIR: Richard␣ M. Burian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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