Book ID: CBB000110624

Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory (1999)

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Abir-Am, Pnina Geraldine (Editor)
Elliot, Clark A. (Editor)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xii + 383 pp., illus., tables, apps., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Charles S. Maier, Preface; Pnina Abir-Am, Introduction; Owen Gingerich, The Copernican Quinquecentennial and Its Predecessors: Historical Insights and National Agendas; Christiane Sinding, Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur: Contrasting Images through Public Commemorations; Joy Harvey, A Focal Point for Feminism, Politics, and Science in France: The Clémence Royer Centennial Celebration of 1930; Daniela S. Barberis, Changing Practices of Commemoration in Neurology: Comparing Charcot's 1925 and 1993 Centennials; George E. Haddad, Medicine and the Culture of Commemoration: Representing Robert Koch's Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus; Dieter Hoffmann, The Divided Centennial: The 1958 Max Planck Celebration(s) in Berlin; Clark A. Elliott, The Tercentenary of Harvard University in 1936: The Scientific Dimension; Stanley Goldberg, The Enola Gay Affair: What Evidence Counts When We Commemorate Historical Events? Robert W. Seidel, The Golden Jubilees of Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratories; Dominique Pestre, Commemorative Practices at CERN: Between Physicists' Memories and Historians' Narratives; Liliane Beaulieu, Bourbaki's Art of Memory; Mara Beller, Jocular Commemorations: The Copenhagen Spirit; Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, The 1959 Darwin Centennial Celebration in America; Pnina G. Abir-Am, The First American and French Commemorations in Molecular Biology: From Collective Memory to Comparative History.


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Authors & Contributors
Gradmann, Christoph
Martin Schneider
Vivekanantham, Sayinthen
Méthot, P-O.
Dutta, Agneish
Wilson, Lindsay Blake
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Medical History
Journal of Medical Biography
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
University of Exeter (United Kingdom)
University of Exeter
Kulturverlag Kadmos
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Medicine
Bacteriology
Disease and diseases
Vaccines; vaccination
Microbiology
Science and politics
People
Koch, Robert
Pasteur, Louis
Charcot, Jean Martin
Löffler, Friedrich
Smith, Theobald
Royer, Clémence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
France
Germany
United States
Americas
Europe
Egypt
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
Institut für Infektionskrankheiten, Berlin
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
Harvard University
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