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Perspectives on Science — 136 episodes · page 1 of 2
Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians
Trans and Intersex Health from Past to Future
Medicine Crossing Borders: Immigration and Health
Federal Regulations: Progressive Era and Beyond
Early Careers Workshop #7: Grant Writing Master Class
Early Careers Workshop #6: Content and Submission of Book Proposals
Early Careers Workshop #5: Roundtable Discussion on Collaborative Research & Writing
Early Careers Workshop #4: Career Diversity
DHST Early Career Workshop #1: Introduction in Writing Good & Fair Book Reviews
Christa Kuljian - Our Science, Ourselves
DHST Early Career Workshop #3: Roundtable Discussion on Journals as a Means of Shaping the Production & Dissemination of Knowledge
DHST Early Career Scholars Workshop #2: Best Practice in Oral History Interview and Analysis
Psychedelics in America
Psychedelics in America
Conversation with Elena Conis – Author of How to Sell a Poison, 2024 Welch Award Recipient
50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Hist and Soc of Sci - History of Medicine
50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - History of Technology
50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - History of Science
50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - Dept Founder Arnold Thackray
50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - Plenary Presentations
Beyond the Annual Meeting & History in Therapeutic Spaces
The Joys and Perils of Relevant History
Connecting through Literature, Corporate Media, and the Museum
History of Science Society at 100: Mining in the history and social studies of science
DNA Papers 15: A Conversation with Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl
History of Science Society at 100: History of Science in Song
IsisCB on Pandemics - On Past, Present, and Possible Future, Pandemic Diseases
DNA Papers 14: Matthew Meselson, Franklin Stahl, and semiconservative replication of DNA
DNA Papers #13 - James Watson, Francis Crick, and the DNA Double Helix × Status message
Donald L. Opitz - Daughters of Ceres
Rena Selya — Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America
DNA Papers #12: Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and the double helix model for DNA structure
Vandersommers - Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive
Christopher Willoughby — Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
DNA Papers #11: Hershey, Chase, and DNA as the material of heredity
IsisCB on Pandemics - The Social and Political Dimensions of Pandemic Diseases
DNA Papers #10: Harriet Ephrussi-Taylor and Rollin Hotchkiss
Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
DNA Papers #2: Albrecht Kossel
Who Does the Work of Science? A Century of Science as Passion, Punishment, and Paycheck
History of Science Society at 100: Publications
DNA Papers #9: Erwin Chargaff
History of Science Society at 100: Global Perspectives
DNA Papers #8: Maclyn McCarty and Oswald Avery
History of Science Society at 100: HSS at the Movies
DNA Papers # 7: Avery, McLeod and McCarty
History of Science Society at 100: Women Historians of Science
Adam Fulton Johnson — Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation
DNA Papers #6: William Astbury and Florence Bell
History of Science Society at 100: Society Presidents
DNA Papers #5: Phoebus Levene
IsisCB on Pandemics: Fundamental Concepts in Understanding Pandemic Diseases
The National Academy of Sciences in the American Democracy: A History
DNA Papers #4: Fred Griffith
DNA Papers #3: Walter Sutton
DNA Papers Episode 2: Albrecht Kossel
IsisCB on Pandemics: Introduction
Judith Kaplan — Linguistics: Reconstructing the Discipline through Universals Research
DNA Papers: Introduction
DNA Papers #1: Friedrich Miescher
Joseph Malherek — Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America
Susan Brandt on Women Healers: Gender, Authority and Medicine in Early Philadelphia
Rana Hogarth — Eugenics and the Legacies of Slavery
Ofer Gal — The Origins of Modern Science: From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution
Eugenia Lean — Vernacular Industrialism
Replay — Abe Gibson's Feral Animals in the American South
Replay — Aristotle's Masterpiece: Early Modern Sex Ed with Mary Fissell
Adam R. Shapiro — Trying Biology
Stephen Weldon — The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism
Replay — Trust in Science: Vaccines
Injustice in Science: The Meitner Scandal and Robert Millikan's Troubling Legacy
Richard Wetzell on "Racial Science" in Nazi Germany
Replay—Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science by Audra Wolfe
Replay—Susan Lindee's Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War
Andy Evans on Racial Science in Germany
Emily Merchant — Building the Population Bomb
Douglas O'Reagan — Taking Nazi Technology
Replay—Presidents of HSS, SHOT, and AAHM (September 2020)
Eric Hintz — American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
Lucas Richert — Break On Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture
Teasel Muir-Harmony — Operation Moonglow
Rachel Walker — Race & Popular Science in Early America
Neeraja Sankaran — A Tale of Two Viruses
Replay—Melanie Kiechle's Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Alberto Martínez — Burned Alive: Bruno, Galileo, and the Inquisition
From the Archives — Shopping for Health: Medicine and Markets in America
From the Archives — Immortal Life: The Promises and Perils of Biobanking and the Genetic Archive
Sciences Of The Mind with Courtney Thompson and Alicia Puglionesi
From the Archives — Trust in Science: Vaccines
Behind the Scenes: Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know
Abe Gibson — Feral Animals in the American South
From the Archives — Kavita Sivaramakrishnan on COVID-19
Bert Hansen — "Overlooked Images of Medicine" in America's New Mass Media of the Late 19th Century
Stephen Kenny on Racial Science
Wendy Gonaver — The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry
Warwick Anderson on Racial Science
Christa Kuljian on Racial Science
Audra Wolfe — Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science
Susan Lindee — Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War
Elise Burton on Racial Science