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| Ch. 1: Introduction : what we know, what we do not - and why it matters, by Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Soderqvist |
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| Pt. I Where are we now? : the challenges of writing recent science |
13 |
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| Ch. 2: Why science writers should forget Carl Sagan and read Thomas Kuhn : on the troubled conscience of a journalist,
by Keay Davidson |
15 |
| Ch. 3: The history of now : reflections on being a "contemporary archivist," by Bruce V. Lewenstein |
31 |
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| Pt. II Whose history? : ethics, lawsuits, national security, and
the writing of contemporary history |
43 |
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| Ch. 4: The politics of commissioned histories (revisited), by David Cantor |
45 |
| Ch. 5: From behind the fence : threading the labyrinths of classified historical research, by Anne Fitzpatrick |
67 |
| Ch. 6: On ethics, scientists, and democracy : writing the history of eugenic sterilization, by Lene Koch |
81 |
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| Pt. III Witness to history : issues in biography and ethics |
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99 |
| Ch. 7: What is the use of writing lives of recent scientists?, by Thomas Soderqvist |
128 |
| Ch. 8: Scholarship as self-knowledge : a case study, by Alfred I. Tauber |
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| Pt. IV Secrecy, politics, and science : probing the meaning of
the Cold War |
151 |
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| Ch. 9: The politics of phosphorus-32 : a Cold War fable based on fact, by John Krige |
153 |
| Ch. 10: Secrecy and science revisited : from politics to historical practice and back, by Michael Aaron Dennis |
172 |
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| Pt. V History detectives : new ways of approaching modern science,
technology, and medicine |
185 |
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| Ch. 11: The conflict of memories and documents : dilemmas and pragmatics of oral history, by Lillian Hoddeson |
187 |
| Ch. 12: Reading photographs : photographs as evidence in writing the history of modern science, by Ronald E. Doel
and Pamela M. Henson |
201 |
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| Pt. VI New voices : neglected and novel perspectives |
237 |
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| Ch. 13: What we still do not know about South-North technoscientific exchanges: North-centricism, scientific diffusion,
and the social studies of science, by Alexis De Grieff and Mauricio Nieto Olarte |
239 |
| Ch. 14: Witnessing the witnesses: potentials and pitfalls of the witness seminar in the history of twentieth century
medicine, by E. M. Tansey |
260 |
| Ch. 15: The 'mutt historian:' The perils and opportunities of doing history of science on-line, by Arne Hessenbruch |
279 |
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| Index |
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