STS.310 History of Science, Fall 2003
Science as knowledge production: a pharmaceutical laboratory at Howard University, Washington, D.C., circa 1900. (Image courtesy of the
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-35750.)
Highlights of this Course
This course features a bibliography of all
readings.
Course Description
This seminar offers a review of recent historiographical approaches within the history of science. Students read a wide variety of recent studies covering topics from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Emphasis is placed on the intertwining of epistemology with institutions in various settings.