Department of History and Sociology of Sciencetag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//22009-11-17T14:52:40ZMovable Type 3.33Life After Penn for STSCtag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5302009-10-13T20:06:32Z2009-11-09T15:23:38Z"What can I do with a liberal arts major?" Read "Making the Liberal Arts Degree Pay Off" in The Key Reporter Fall 2009 Penn Career Services Office Information and advising for undergraduates regarding internships, job-hunting, professional school applications and postgraduate...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
The Key Reporter Fall 2009
Penn Career Services Office
Information and advising for undergraduates regarding internships, job-hunting, professional school applications and postgraduate study.
Jobs Taken by STSC Majors
See also STSC/HSSC Alumni NewsPre-Professional ResourcesFor Students Considering Professional or Graduate School Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI)Wharton Consulting ClubMed School Countdown
A interactive website that provides application information and statistics for prospective medical school applicants about all U.S. medical schools - free to use, free to sign up - developed by HSOC major Chase Feiger.
Post-undergraduate FellowshipsPhilly FellowsA one-year fellowship program that connects recent graduates with challenging non-profit jobs that make a difference in Philadelphia. Penn Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF) Leonore Annenberg Teaching FellowshipPartnership for Public Service (Government internships and entry-level positions)
International InternshipsThink Tanks and Civil Society Program (TTCSP) AIESEC InternshipsInterAction (international internships)
Inter-American Development BankU.N. Development ProgrammeWorld Bank Young Professionals Program and Region-Specific InternshipsFellowshipsPenn Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF) Leonore Annenberg Teaching FellowshipWellstone Fellowship for Social JusticeVillers Fellowship for Health Care JusticeEchoing Green FellowshipSelect List of Fellowship OpportunitiesFulbright GrantsPost-Penn Service OpportunitiesDoctors Without BordersGlobal VolunteersHeifer InternationalInternational Volunteer Programs AssociationU.N. VolunteersPeace CorpsTeach for AmericaAmericorpsWorld Volunteer WebJob-HuntingPenn Career ServicesU.S. GovernmentInternational Development JobsInterAction (international jobs)
UN/US State Department Jobs
This list shows what kinds of jobs and offices exist within these two institutions.
International Jobs]]>
010 Health and Societiestag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2007:/mt-static//2.2792009-10-16T17:41:24Z2009-10-07T21:11:58ZThis course is required for all HSOC majors Fulfills Sector IV requirement This course is an introduction to the vocabulary, skills, and concepts basic to sociocultural studies of health and disease. While recognizing the importance of the biomedical model, particularly...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.eduThis course is required for all HSOC majorsFulfills Sector IV requirement
This course is an introduction to the vocabulary, skills, and concepts basic to sociocultural studies of health and disease. While recognizing the importance of the biomedical model, particularly to Western civilization, the course asks students to explore other approaches and healing traditions. It does so by exploring how policy analysts, medical care providers, and scholars from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, history and sociology have crafted responses to such real world problems as malnutrition, epidemic disease, and the inequitable distribution of health resources.
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Festschrift for Feiermantag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5312009-10-20T20:29:40Z2009-10-20T20:33:41Z"Social Health," in honor of Steven Feierman, will be held at Penn on April 23-24, 2010. (details forthcoming)...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
"Social Health," in honor of Steven Feierman, will be held at Penn on April 23-24, 2010. (details forthcoming)
026.601 Philosophy of Time and Spacetag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5322009-10-20T21:31:58Z2009-10-20T21:35:33ZLPS Course - See "About Registering for Courses" (scroll to the top of this page)...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.eduLPS Course - See "About Registering for Courses" (scroll to the top of this page)]]>
PHIL 026
Lindsey Stull in the DPtag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5332009-10-22T15:49:34Z2009-10-22T15:53:05ZRead Lindsey's regular columns and see an archive of her work at The Daily Pennsylvanian...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.eduThe Daily Pennsylvanian]]>
Graduate Alumnitag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5342009-10-22T16:39:36Z2009-10-22T16:42:28ZLink to the Graduate Alumni page...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
Graduate Alumni page]]>
001.601 Emergence of Modern Sciencetag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5362009-10-22T17:44:44Z2009-10-22T18:33:03ZFulfills Sector IV and Sector VII requirements LPS course - only open to LPS students for Spring 2010 Over the past 500 years, science has emerged as a central and transformative feature of Western society and culture, a human enterprise...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.eduFulfills Sector IV and Sector VII requirementsLPS course - only open to LPS students for Spring 2010
Over the past 500 years, science has emerged as a central and transformative feature of Western society and culture, a human enterprise that continues to reshape everyday life in countless ways. Why did science take root in the West, and how did it gradually change the way we see the world? What was the “Scientific Revolution,” and why did it take place when and where it did? How has the thinking of great scientists been shaped
by the culture, religion, and politics of their own times? How has science transformed the way we understand the universe and our place in it? This lecture course will survey
the emergence of the modern scientific worldview from ancient Greece through the end
of the 20th century. Focusing on the life and work of those who created modern
science, we will explore their core ideas, where those ideas came from, what problems they solved, what made them controversial and exciting, and how they related to
contemporary religious beliefs, politics, society, and culture. The course is organized
both chronologically and thematically. In short, this is a “Western Civ” course with a difference. ]]>
HSOC 001
518.640 Religion, Science and the Understanding of Naturetag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5372009-10-22T18:42:04Z2009-10-22T18:54:53ZThis graduate course is taught in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. Although frequently portrayed in opposition, religion and science share a common goal of providing a coherent explanation of the origins and operations of the natural world. Indeed,...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.eduThis graduate course is taught in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies.
Although frequently portrayed in opposition, religion and science share a common goal of providing a coherent explanation of the origins and operations of the natural world. Indeed, until the modern period, it is often difficult to discern a sharp boundary between the theological and the rational. In this seminar, we will explore the evolving relationship between these two dominant worldviews from Antiquity to the present. Specific topics include: Aristotelian thought and its incorporation into Christian theology; alchemy, magic, and mysticism; Galileo and the Catholic Church; Protestantism and the Scientific Revolution; evolution and theology; and God, Eastern religion, and modern physics.]]>
Life After Penn for HSOCtag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5402009-11-09T15:19:30Z2009-11-10T15:26:46Z"What can I do with a liberal arts major?" Read "Making the Liberal Arts Degree Pay Off" in The Key Reporter Fall 2009 Penn Career Services Office Information and advising for undergraduates regarding internships, job-hunting, professional school applications and postgraduate...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
The Key Reporter Fall 2009
Penn Career Services Office
Information and advising for undergraduates regarding internships, job-hunting, professional school applications and postgraduate study.
Jobs Taken by HSOC Majors
See also HSOC Alumni NewsPre-Professional ResourcesFor Students Considering Professional or Graduate School Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI)Wharton Consulting ClubMed School Countdown
A interactive website that provides application information and statistics for prospective medical school applicants about all U.S. medical schools - free to use, free to sign up - developed by HSOC major Chase Feiger.
Post-undergraduate FellowshipsPhilly FellowsA one-year fellowship program that connects recent graduates with challenging non-profit jobs that make a difference in Philadelphia. Penn Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF) Leonore Annenberg Teaching FellowshipPartnership for Public Service (Government internships and entry-level positions)
International InternshipsThink Tanks and Civil Society Program (TTCSP) AIESEC InternshipsInterAction (international internships)
Inter-American Development BankU.N. Development ProgrammeWorld Bank Young Professionals Program and Region-Specific InternshipsFellowshipsPenn Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF) Leonore Annenberg Teaching FellowshipWellstone Fellowship for Social JusticeVillers Fellowship for Health Care JusticeEchoing Green FellowshipSelect List of Fellowship OpportunitiesFulbright GrantsPost-Penn Service OpportunitiesDoctors Without BordersGlobal VolunteersHeifer InternationalInternational Volunteer Programs AssociationU.N. VolunteersPeace CorpsTeach for AmericaAmericorpsWorld Volunteer WebJob-HuntingPenn Career ServicesU.S. GovernmentCenter for Studying Health System ChangeInternational Development JobsInterAction (international jobs)
UN/US State Department Jobs
This list shows what kinds of jobs and offices exist within these two institutions.
International Jobs]]>
General Education courses/ HSOC & STSCtag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5412009-11-12T15:54:20Z2009-11-12T16:04:21ZHSOC and STSC courses that fulfill Sector and Foundational Requirements I. Society STSC 003 II. History and Tradition HSOC 002, STSC 028, HSOC 145 III. Arts and Letters STSC 110 IV. HUmanities and Social Sciences STSC 001, HSOC 10, HSOC...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
HSOC and STSC courses that fulfill Sector and Foundational Requirements
I. Society
STSC 003
II. History and Tradition
HSOC 002, STSC 028, HSOC 145
III. Arts and Letters
STSC 110
IV. HUmanities and Social Sciences
STSC 001, HSOC 10, HSOC 139, STSC 160, STSC 212, STSC 253, STSC 288
V. Living World
STSC 123
VII. Natural Sciences and Mathematics
STSC 001, STSC 026, STSC 135
Quantitative: HSOC 100, HSOC 111
Cross Cultural Analysis: HSOC 145
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239 Globalization and Healthtag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5422009-11-19T16:56:16Z2009-11-19T17:01:58ZIn some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others, people struggle for survival amid new and reemerging epidemics and have little of no access to basic or life-saving therapies. Treatments for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others, people struggle for survival amid new and reemerging epidemics and have little of no access to basic or life-saving therapies. Treatments for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the world's poor, remain under-researched and global health disparities are increasing. This interdisciplinary seminar integrates perspectives from the social sciences and the biomedical sciences to explore 1) the development and global flows of medical technologies; 2) how the health of individuals and groups is affected by medical technologies, public policy, and the forces of globalization as each of these impacts local worlds.
The seminar is structured to allow us to examine specific case material from around the world (Haiti, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, China, India, for example), and to address the ways in which social, political-economic, and technological factors -- which are increasingly global in nature -- influence basic biological mechanisms and disease outcomes and distribution. As we analyze each case and gain familiarity with ethnographic methods, we will ask how more effective interventions can be formulated. The course draws from historical and ethnographic accounts, medical journals, ethical analyses, and films, and familiarizes students with critical debates on globalization and with local responses to globalizing processes.
ANTH 273
548 Cultures of Medicinetag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5432009-11-19T16:59:06Z2009-11-19T17:01:00ZAnn Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
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Around the Departmenttag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2009:/mt-static//2.5272010-06-29T15:07:23Z2009-11-04T14:25:26ZMellon Fellow Mara Mills has received the 2009 Schachterle Essay Prize from the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and the 2009 William Cadogan Prize from the British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health. STSC senior...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
Mara Mills has received the 2009 Schachterle Essay Prize from the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and the 2009 William Cadogan Prize
from the British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health.
STSC senior Lindsey Stull writes a regular column for The Daily Pennsylvanian
Professor John Tresch is on leave with a fellowship from the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers for the 2009-2010 academic year.
HSS was well represented at SHOT 2009 (Society for the History of Technology meeting) in Pittsburgh on October 15-18. Faculty and graduate students: Ruth Cowan, Nathan Ensmenger, Ann Greene, Matt Hersch, Eric Hintz, Corrina Schlombs, Kristofer Whitney and Damon Yarnell; HSS Alums: Atsushi Akera, Glenn Bugos, Bernie Carlson, Deborah Douglas, Nathan Ensmenger, Thomas Haigh, Gabrielle Hecht, Chris Jones, Nina Lerman, Thomas Misa, Fred Quivik, Eric Rau, Yasushi Sato, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudemaier, Jeff Tang, Jeremy Vetter, and Audra Wolfe. Many HSS folks are in leadership positions: Bernie Carlson is SHOT Secretary, John Staudemaier is the (long-time but retiring) editor of Technology and Culture; Thomas Haigh, Corinna Schlombs and Ann Greene are SIG (special interest group) leaders; Deborah Douglas, Nina Lerman, Amy Slaton, Glenn Bugos, Atsushi Akera, John Staudemaier and Karl-erik Michelsen serve on SHOT committees.
HSS graduate students hosted the Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Medicine on October 9-10.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan has recently given the following talks: "Climbing Up The Slippery Slope," at a conference on Religion and Genetics at the University of Minnesota in September, and "Archibald Garrod and the Origins of Personalized Medicine," at the CIGHT Symposium at Penn. She served on a panel at the [public] Symposium on Regenerative Medicine for Penn's Genome Frontiers Institute at the Franklin Institute in September, and at the recent SHOT meeting she chaired and participated on a panel about "Why there are So Few Women Engineers."
Ann Greene's book,Horses At Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Harvard University Press, 2008) has received the Fred B. Kniffen Award for best authored book from the Pioneer America Society.]]>
Ongoingtag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2008:/mt-static//2.3382010-06-30T18:04:18Z2009-10-22T16:46:53ZHSSC Monday Workshop Schedule for Fall 2009 Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) Calendar LInk to comprehensive calendar of events at area institutions. Links to program and alumni news on this website: Graduate * HSOC * STSC...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu
HSSC Monday Workshop Schedule for Fall 2009
Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) Calendar
LInk to comprehensive calendar of events at area institutions.Links to program and alumni news on this website:Graduate * HSOC * STSC ]]>
Faculty Office Hours Fall 2009tag:hss.sas.upenn.edu,2010:/mt-static//2.5282010-09-01T15:40:11Z2009-11-17T14:52:40Z Adams W 12-1:30 366 Cohen Aronowitz M 2:15-3:30 325 Cohen Barg By appt. 2 Gates/HUP Barnes M 10:30-12 T 4-5 323 Cohen Burnett T 10-12 373 Cohen Cowan T 1-3 W 11-1 324 Cohen Crane T 2-4 2046 Museum/247...Ann Greenehttp://hss.sas.upenn.edu