The History of Science in a World of Readers

What role should historians of science, technology, and medicine have in communicating their own body of literature-its methods and concerns-across linguistic boundaries? This anthology is a proactive response to this question. As the West and the East become ever more closely related through travel, trade, and-not least-the globalization of knowledge, the seven essays in this volume should stimulate new engagements between English and Chinese readers on the centrality of science, technology, and medicine for our histories and our future. A wider selection of influential literature published in English since 1990 has been translated into Chinese and published in China in a companion volume.

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Schäfer, Dagmar The current Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dagmar Schäfer is Director of Department III, Artefacts, Action, Knowledge. She is Honorary Professor in History of Technology at Technische Universität, Berlin; Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Sinology, Freie Universität, Berlin; and Guest Professor at Tianjin University (2018-2021). She received her doctorate and habilitation from the University of Würzburg and has worked and studied at Zhejiang University, Peking University, National Tsing Hua University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Manchester, among others. She was previously a Guest Professor at the School of History and Culture of Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Creager, Angela Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University, studies twentieth-century biomedical research. She is the author of The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (2002), and Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine (2013). Her next book is on science and regulation in the 1960s through the 1980s, focusing on how researchers conceptualized and developed techniques for detecting environmental carcinogens.