2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Saturday, 4 November
HSS 2000 Program
Uncle Sam in the Laboratory:
Biomedical Science and the Federal Government
Session cosponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine
(Brighton)
*Buhm␣ Soon Park, National Institutes of Health, More Academic Than a University:
Three Freedoms and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at NIH, 1961-1981
John␣ P. Swann, Food and Drug Administration, Institutionalizing Regulatory
Science and Research in the FDA
John␣ L. Parascandola, Public Health Service, Science and Sex: The Venereal
Disease Education Campaign of the U.S. Public Health Service in World War II
Caroline␣ C. Hannaway, National Institutes of Health, NIH Scientists and
International Understanding of the Spread of HIV
CHAIR: Victoria Harden, National Institutes of Health
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Mechanics and Imagery
(Lord Byron)
David McGee, University of Toronto / Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science, William Petty’s Double-Bottom
*Wolfgang Lefèvre, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Drawings
in Ancient Treatises on Mechanics
Marcus Popplow, University of Bremen / Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science, The Role of the Engineer Drawings in the Emergence of Classical
Mechanics
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Bert␣ S. Hall, University of Toronto
Exhibiting the Evanescent in Victorian Science and Technology
(Plaza Centre)
Nani␣ N. Clow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, ‘Should We
Trust the Expert?’: Re-examining the Debates Concerning Scientific
Credibility, Expertise, and Method in Late-Victorian Psychical Research
Iwan␣ R. Morus, Queen’s University, Belfast, Mastering the Invisible:
Technologies of the Unseen at the Mid-Victorian Exhibition
*Richard␣ J. Noakes, University of Leeds, ‘Imponderables in the Balance’:
Rewriting the History of Victorian Physics and Psychical Research
COMMENTATOR: Otto Sibum, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
CHAIR: Bruce␣ J. Hunt, University of Texas
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