The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
Science, medicine, and technology have become increasingly important to the average individual in modern society. The importance of these three fields is in many ways one of the defining characteristics of modernity. Understanding their history is essential for educated individuals. Science, medicine, and technology are not static endeavors but processes, bodies of knowledge, tools, and techniques that are constantly growing and changing. The entries in this encyclopedia explore the changing character of science, medicine, and technology in the United States; the key individuals, institutions, and organizations responsible for major developments; and the concepts, practices, and processes underlying these changes. Especially since the early decades of the twentieth century, American science, medicine, and technology have played dominant roles internationally. Entries explore distinctive characteristics of American institutions and culture that help explain this development. At the same time, the encyclopedia situates specific events, theories, practices, and institutions in their proper historical context and explores their impact on American society and culture. Entries are written by the experts in the field. Students not only from the humanities and social sciences but also from the sciences and the medical sciences should be attracted to the broad-ranging and in-depth analysis in the encyclopedia (Provided by Publisher).
Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World
Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of purposes. Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation of commodities created new regimes of meaning, Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World demonstrates how medicinal substances have had immediate and far-reaching economic and political consequences in various capacities. From midwifery and umbilical cords, to the social spaces of soap, perfumes in early modern India and remedies for leprosy, this volume considers a vast range of material culture in medicinal settings to better understand the history of medicine and its role in global connections since the early 17th century (Provided by Publisher).
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| Subject Areas | Classmark(s) | Location |
| History, geographic treatment, biography (Natural Sciences and mathematics) | 509 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
| History, geographic treatment, biography (Applied sciences) | 609 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3 |
| Medicine and health | 610 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3 |
| Diseases | 616 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3 |
| General considerations of public administration | 352 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
| Social problems and services to groups | 362 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
| Military science | 355 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
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