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on hist sci/med, +1 to Kevles, but also Andrea Stern's "Eugenic Nation" or Nathaniel Comfort's "The science of human perfection."

@ayahnerd.bsky.social is going to have a book out on Black Eugenic thought in the 19th and 20thC, hopefully soon!

famous genetics/mol bio people/institutions & their start-up companies were swimming in oil $: Salk Institute, Carl Djerassi, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (latter I learned ab/ thx to @biohistorian.bsky.social).

and yet, oil firms didn't get much from those deals & quit them in the late '80s. why? 13/x

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many thanks to @patrickmccray.bsky.social & Michael Gordin for editing, & @mxmcadam.bsky.social @ JHUP for publishing Greedy Science, an edited volume on science in the go-go '80s 1/x

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Asilomar Goes Underground: The Long Legacy of Recombinant DNA Hazard Debates for the Greater Boston Area Biotechnology Industry - Journal of the History of Biology In 1975, a meeting on the potential hazards of recently invented recombinant DNA techniques was held at the Asilomar Conference Center in California. This meeting gave rise to a global debate over the...

Out a bit late for the 50th Anniversary of #Asilomar-- my #openaccess article on its local resonances in the Greater Boston Area and its impact on the development of #biotechnology. Come for the orange eyed monsters, stay for the financial engineering. #histSTM #STS
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Hi! I wrote an essay about Brighter Biochemistry (dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....) after finding it as a master's student-- its fascinating!

About 20 years ago I photographed all 8 volumes. I have to see if they survived their travel form one drive to another.

Not sure if you've seen it but there are some interesting studies of 19th and 20thC cancer hospitals that would be apropos. From my own background work on cancer and contagion I have lots of references to odor and cancer-- many are running around in the notes of Ch1 in my book.

Not sure if Harold Cook's Matters of Exchange is intro text but it has lots of material to this point that can be excerpted, e.g. the Dutch VOC and knowledge of nutmeg cultivation in the Banda Islands.

Hello! Yes @claireturner.bsky.social I'm focused on the 20thC US but I also teach a broader undergraduate course on the history of cancer, I might be able to suggest others once I learn more about what you're looking for and what you already know!

black and white photo of person standing in a field between two very large cones, each connected to their head by a tube. this was a style of acoustic device generally used between the first and second world wars for airplane detection

logged in here for the first time in a while, will be posting on an occasional basis on the #STS and #history of #biology, #biotechnology, #cancer, and #biomedicine, but I am happy to be listening into more #histSTM conversations!

#Histmed, are you out there?! AAHM is now on Bluesky 💙 We will no longer use our Twitter account, so follow along here for announcements, updates on our centennial meeting, and an ✨occasional✨ plea for donations.

Book cover for "Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts"

Happy laboratory day #histSTM and #STS ers! What are the lab studies books enjoy thinking with?

To kick things off, an OBG whose references to the logistics and infrastructure of supplies opened up new questions for me regarding how to fit laboratories into their host communities.

A chronicler of the biotech boom MIT historian of science Robin Scheffler studies the progress of biomedical research in the U.S., including in Kendall Square and greater Boston.

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The American Philosophical Society Library & Museum seeks applicants for a one-year, residential fellowship for graduate students specializing in the history of science, working toward the completion of their dissertation.
Deadline: January 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM #histsci 🗃️

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Urban planning meets oncology meets health economics
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Next in our joint publication, the new Isis considers what a labor history of science can & should be. @historyofscience.bsky.social, @sethrockman.bsky.social, & I co-wrote the introduction but the main authors are the real stars. So proud of this. #histsci

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First of our THREE-JOURNAL joint publication of on labor history and history of science, including a historiographical essay I co-authored with Lissa Roberts @historyofscience.bsky.social @sethrockman.bsky.social. Look for the Isis and Labor issues soon!
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Sexualizing Cancer The virus that changed how we think about cancer and its culprits—and the vaccine that changed how we talk about sex and its risks.   Starting in 2005, people in the US and Europe were inundated wi...

Looking forward to getting my copy of this book!
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#histmed #histSTM #cancer #vaccines

"The potential to generate new ideas and partnerships through chance encounters is unmatched by less compact and more car-reliant rival clusters like California’s Bay Area or North Carolina’s Research Triangle, say Kendall Square boosters."

The ‘bump factor’ returns to Kendall Square - The Boston Globe Random meetings in the compact hub help to fuel the local biotech cluster — at least on Tuesdays through Thursdays.

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We don't have a cover yet - although this is a cool image - but we do have a publisher. Johns Hopkins University Press will publish "Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s"

More than a dozen great authors and edited by myself and Michael Gordin

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We are just making the transit and Bsky -- so delighted to be here!! Thanks, Alisa, for helping to spread the word.

Meet the 2023 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences In 2023, Isaiah Andrews, Joshua Bennett, Megan Black, William Deringer, E.J. Green, Nathaniel Hendren, Caley Horan, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Frank Schilbach, Caitlin Talmadge, and Leslie Tilley were gra...

I now have tenure at MIT (!) help me celebrate by finding people to follow in the worlds of #histSTM, #STS, #histmed, #urbanhistory adjacent to biology and biomedicine as I migrate onto this site--thanks!