Research and Publications
Professor Robert Aronowitz, "The converged experience of risk and disease" Milbank Quarterly 87.2 (2009): 417–442. He gave a talk with the same title last March at CNRS, Paris.
Dominique A. Tobbell (Ph.D. 2008), "Who's Winning the Human Race?" Cold War as Pharmaceutical Political Strategy," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 64 (2009): 429-473. PDF
The research of Samuel Preston, former provost of the University and professor of sociology, well-known to HSOC-ers for his course "Health of Populations" (HSOC 111/SOCI 111) and graduate student Jessica Ho, HSOC '09, was the subject of a front page article in the "Science Times" section of the New York Times on Tuesday, September 22. Link to article
Professor Nathan Ensmenger has been profiled in SAS Frontiers magazine. The article focuses on his recent research, and is titled "Doctors Without Modems? Technology Historian Nathan Ensmenger checks the pulse of the e-health revolution." You can also listen to an audio interview of Professor Ensmenger discussing the Science, Technology, and Society major, as well as his forthcoming book "The Computer Boys Take Over" (MIT Press)
Ann Norton Greene, Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Harvard University Press, 2008). New York Times Review