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An "Elusive" Phenomenon: The "Normal" Female Sex Drive
Beginning in the 1880s, inspired in particular by feminists’ challenges to the state regulation of prostitution, female sexuality became the subject o
Citizen Science of the Human Mind: At-Home Baby Observers in Gilded Age America
This book project illustrates how members of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA), most prominent among them Milicent Shinn, a graduate of the
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Christine von Oertzen, Science in the Cradle: Milicent Shinn and Her Home-Based Network of Baby Observers, 1890-1910, in: Centaurus 52, Read
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Knowing Nature: The Changing Foundations of Environmental Knowledge
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Knowing Nature: The Changing Foundations of Environmental Knowledge
MoreBirthing Machines—An Introduction to Ambulant Science
Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, labor in Western medicine was understood as a mechanical procedure consisting of a regular sequence of seven
Computerizing Diagnosis: Minds, Medicine, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America
In 1947, the Cornell psychiatrist Keeve Brodman and a handful of colleagues began developing what would become one of the most widely used health ques
The Emergence of the Life Sciences Field, 1750–1914
The closing decades of the eighteenth century witnessed the start of a “second scientific revolution” in which the generalized scientific society gave
Algorithmic Modeling of Musical Time
This research investigates the technical modeling of the musical ear in our times. The pervasive digital networks that characterize twenty-first-centu
Clinical Judgement in a Highly Intervened-in World
My project addresses a consequential gap within the historiography of medicine and the biomedical sciences, namely the challenges posed by the high de
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