http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/ en Copyright 2008 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:04:18 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss HSOC 404 Urban Environment HSOC 408 Urban Asthma Epidemic HSOC 410 Health Policy in South Asia (SAST 385) STSC 422 Politics and U.S. Science Policy STSC 425 Philosophy of Science HSOC 430 Disease and Society HSOC 438 Development and Global Health]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/capstone_courses_1.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/capstone_courses_1.php Courses Courses Courses Fall 2008 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:19:01 -0500 Contact Info and C.V. ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/faculty/department_faculty/more/audra_wolfe.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/faculty/department_faculty/more/audra_wolfe.php More Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:14:46 -0500 Name on the Faculty and Staff page Call the Department office (8-8400) Go to the Penn Directory]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/contacting_faculty.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/contacting_faculty.php Courses Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:24:26 -0500 NEW!! This course fulfills the Capstone Research Requirement for HSOC and STSC majors. This capstone seminar provides an overview of the federal science policymaking process in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including the basics of how the government works. Possible topics: science policy and the Presidency, science policy and Congress, the role of interest groups, conflicts of interest, specific case studies (including the Human Genome Project, the FDA and AIDS drugs, and the politics of organ transplants), the role of the press/media in public perceptions of science policy. Students will carry out an exercise in budget allocation (including conducting budget hearings) based on actual budget figures for various institutes within the National Institutes of Health, and an exercise in peer review, utilizing actual National Science Foundation projects. Each student will chose a relevant topic on which to write their research paper. Syllabus]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/stsc/courses_3/422_politics_and_us_science_po.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/stsc/courses_3/422_politics_and_us_science_po.php Courses Courses Courses Fall 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:32:52 -0500 STSC 008 The Science of Sport (CWiC) HSOC 039 The Healer's Tale (Freshman Seminar) STSC 052 Superman! (Freshman Seminar) STSC 088 Who Owns the Past? (Freshman Seminar) STSC 311 Science, Medicine and Media (HSOC 311) STSC 361 American Society and Politics STSC 378 Going Digital STSC 422 Politics and U.S. Science Policy (HSOC 422) HSOC 438 Development and Global Health]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/new_courses_for_fall_2008.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/new_courses_for_fall_2008.php Courses Fall 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:51:58 -0500 Critical Speaking Seminar Did Lance Armstrong use drugs or not? Why do Kenyans win marathons? Does Gatorade really work? In this course, we won’t answer these questions ourselves but will explore the world of scientists who do. These scientists produce knowledge about how human bodies work and the intricacies of human performance. They bring elite (world-class) athletes to their laboratories—or their labs to the athletes. Through readings and video screenings, we will find out how these scientists determine the boundary between “natural” and “performance-enhanced,” work to conquer the problem of fatigue, and establish the limits and potential of human beings. Course themes include: technology in science and sport, the lab vs. the field, genetics and race, the politics of the body, and doping. While we will focus in class on the science of endurance sports, you will investigate the relationship between science and the sport of your choice for your final project. This is a Critical Speaking Seminar. In addition to reading about the science of human performance, you will have your own experiences as performing humans, experimenting with several forms of speaking. The oral communication assignments are designed to be both practical and interesting, and we will focus on the art of faking confidence. Requirements will include meeting with a speaking adviser, receiving peer feedback, and reviewing a video of one of your presentations. ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/008_the_science_of_sport.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/008_the_science_of_sport.php Courses Fall 2008 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:47:10 -0500 Congratulations to Aaron Cohen '08, Jessica Ho '09, and Jason Nagata '08! http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/phi_beta_kappa.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/phi_beta_kappa.php News and Events Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:06:38 -0500 HSOC 002 has a new schedule and instructor (STSC 002) HSOC 140 has a new schedule and instructor (STSC 148) HSOC 321 WILL be offered in Fall 2008 (ANTH 312) HSOC 421 is CANCELLED (HIST 471) http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/changes_in_fall_2008_courses.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/changes_in_fall_2008_courses.php Courses Courses Courses Fall 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:38:59 -0500 ***NEW COURSE*** A “digital revolution” in the twentieth century is said to have ushered in an era of new media and rapid globalization, with changes in manufacture, communication, and subjectivity. How are changes at the level of signalsrelated to changes in politics and culture? This course surveys characterizations of “the analog” and “the digital” in the literatures of engineering, history of technology, and media studies. We will examine archival and published sources, as well as artifacts, to compare the analog and digital forms of several technologies, including film, the telephone, sound recording and computing. ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/373_going_digital.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/373_going_digital.php Courses Courses Courses Fall 2008 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:54:58 -0500 GINA Position Paper ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/cowans_ideasinaction_course_sh.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/cowans_ideasinaction_course_sh.php News and Events Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:07:12 -0500 ***NEW COURSE*** The course fulfills the Capstone Research Requirement for HSOC and STSC majors. International development" encompasses everything from growing rice to delivering babies to running currency markets. High-level public policy, seemingly remote from the day-to-day stuff of life and death, has a profound impact on the basic living conditions of a majority of the world's people. The aim in this course is to understand how development policy--for example, the outcome of World Trade Organization negotiations--affects the health of poor people. We look at how the practice of international development has been shaped, over the past sixty years and more, by political interests with no straightforward bearing on the kinds of health outcomes we might assume to be the aims of development. We relate current and emerging trends in development--microfinance, climate justice--to the history of policy agendas at the national and international level. By the course's end, students will have a critical, historically informed perspective on the practice of international development. Each student will develop an original research paper over the course of the term and have the chance to present research in progress to the group. ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/438_development_and_global_hea.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/438_development_and_global_hea.php Courses Courses Courses Fall 2008 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:34:37 -0500 http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/148_fall_medicine_lit_16501850.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/148_fall_medicine_lit_16501850.php Courses Courses Fall 2008 Thu, 01 May 2008 09:42:20 -0500 NOTE: This page is still under construction. Send updates and comments to Dr. Ann Greene. 1971 Steven Shapin: Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. 1973 Kenkichiro Koizumi: Professor on the Faculty of International Studies, Bunkyo University in Chigasaki, Japan. 1979 Jonathon Liebenau: Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at the London School of Economics. 1980 Robert Bud: Head of Research (Collections) at the London Science Museum. John M. Staudenmaier: Editor of Technology & Culture and Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity at the University of Detroit Mercy. 1981 Jeffrey L. Sturchio: Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Merck & Co. Daniel P. Todes: Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, and the Joint Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. 1982 P. Thomas Carroll: Executive Director of Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway (Troy, NY). David K. van Keuren was Chief Historian at the Office of Naval Research at the time of his death in March 2004. In Memory 1984 W. Bernard Carlson: Professor, Department of Science, Technology and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia. 1985 Deborah Fitzgerald: Professor of the History of Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1986 James H. Capshew: Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University. Lynn K. Nyhart: Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin. Jack D. Pressman was Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his death in June 1997. Obituary 1987 Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Joel D. Howell, M.D., Director of the Program in Society and Medicine, Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, and Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Michigan. Bruce V. Lewenstein: Professor, Department of Communication (Director of Graduate Studies) and Department of Science & Technology Studies. 1988 Mary E. Fissell: Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, PRogram for Science, Technology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. 1989 Zhong Zhang 1990 Deborah C. Brunton: Senior Lecturer, History of Medicine, The Open University (UK) Eric M. Schatzberg: Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin. 1991 James G. Cassify, OSB Alex Pang: Research Director at the Institute for the Future (a think tank in Silicon Valley), Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Science, Technology and Society program at Stanford University. 1992 Warwick H. Anderson, M.D.: Professorial Research Fellow, Department of History and Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney. Gabrielle Hecht: Associate Professor, Department of History and Program for Science, Technology and Society, University of Michigan. Alexander Laszlo is Core Faculty and Co-Director of Research at the Presidio School of Management, Co-Founder and President of Syntony Quest, and also teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Saybrook Graduate School, Touro University International, and Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Sarah Tracy: Associate Professor, Honors College, University of Oklahoma. Article about Dr. Tracy 1993 Nina E. Lerman: Associate Professor, Department of History, Whitman College. Keith Wailoo: Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University. 1994 Jeffrey P. Brosco, M.D.: Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Miami. 1994-2003 graduates will be listed soon. 2004 Alex Checkovich Carla Keirns, M.D. Chloe B. Silverman: Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology and Society, Pennsylvania State University. Jeffrey Tang: Assistant Professor, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, James Madison University. 2005 Philip Cho: Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Berlin. Yashushi Sato: Post-doctoral fellowship, Japan Foundation for the Promotion of Science, University of Tsukuba. Jeremy Vetter: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Dickinson College. 2006 Eve Buckley: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware. 2007 Sejal Patel: Post-Doctoral fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Societies Scholars Program, Madison, WI, 2007-2009. Joy Rohde: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 2008-2010. 2008 Hilary Smith: Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Meredith College (Raleigh, North Carolina). Dominique Tobbell: Program Manager in Biotechnology, History, and Policy in the Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation.]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/hssc/careers_1/graduates_of_hss.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/hssc/careers_1/graduates_of_hss.php Alumni PhDs Tue, 06 May 2008 08:33:36 -0500 ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/photos_from_hss_end_of_year_pa.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/photos_from_hss_end_of_year_pa.php News and Events Thu, 08 May 2008 14:22:53 -0500 Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) posts a comprehensive list of events at member and area institutions. All Summer 2008 courses are offered through the College of General Studies ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/current_information_and_schedu.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/current_information_and_schedu.php News and Events Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:04:18 -0500