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Gina Surita
Gina Surita is a PhD candidate in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. Her...
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The Experience of Uncertainty: Generation in European Medicine, 1500–1650
How does human life begin? How do we know when it has started? Such questions are still debated today, but they were also hotly contested in the early
Visiting Scholar Vincenzo De Risi Awarded Monte Medal and CNRS Bronze Medal
Visiting Scholar Vincenzo De Risi awarded Monte Medal and CNRS Bronze Medal
Jun 21, 2022Gastwissenschaftler Vincenzo De Risi mit Monte-Medaille und CNRS-Bronzemedaille ausgezeichnet
Gastwissenschaftler Vincenzo De Risi erhält Monte-Medaille und CNRS-Bronzemedaille
Jun 21, 2022The Pineal Gland, Comets, and Subtle Matter: The Natural Objects with Which Cartesians Tried to Conquer France (1637–1691)
The Descartes who is now read and commented on is the Descartes who wrote the “Meditationes de prima philosophia.” But in the seventeenth century, the
A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470–1630
How do ways of life emerge, and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we have har
Mathematics, the Body, and the Soul: Nicolaus Steno and the Search for Certainty in the 17th Century
Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) became famous for scientific discoveries such as naming the so-called female testicles as ovaries, describing the heart as
From Technocracy to Scientocracy? Science-Policy Interactions in the Chinese Local State, 1990–2020
With the beginning of the Reform and Opening Era (gaige kaifang) at the end of the 1970s, pragmatism and institutionalization began to replace tr
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This project seeks to understand the scope and nature of scientist/scholar-bureaucrat intersections and interactions in Chinese local governance, focu
Validating Laboratory Diagnostics in Medical Parasitology: Morphological and Molecularized Approaches between Clinical, Epistemic, and Political Interests
Parasite in the context of infectious diseases is an umbrella term for a wide variety of eukaryotic organisms. Medical parasitology therefore has been
Validating Quantitative Constructs before Construct Validation: The Case of Early Psychophysics
Measurement is crucial to a wide variety of epistemic activities in the psychological and biomedical sciences as well as in everyday clinical practice