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One purpose of historical writing is to illuminate the present. In the late twentieth century, science, technology and medicine are enormously important, yet their development is little studied. Histories of politics and literature abound, and historical biography is established as an effective way of setting individuals in context. But the historical literature on science, technology and medicine is relatively small, and the better studies are rarely accessible to the general reader. Too often one finds mere chronicles of progress, or scientific biographies which do little to illuminate either the science or the society in which it was produced, let alone their interactions. The reasons for this failure are as obvious as they are regrettable. Education in many countries, not least in Britain, draws deep divisions between the sciences and the humanities. Men and women who have been trained in science have too often been trained away from history, or from any sustained reflection on how societies work. Those educated in historical or social studies have usually learned so little of science that they remain thereafter suspicious, overawed, or both. Such a diagnosis is by no means nov

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Author

Roberta E. Bivins (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349423903

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Medical, Philosophy