Promoting scholarly and public understanding of history of science, technology and medicine.
Featured Event
February 12, 2010
Terry M. Christensen, PACHS Visiting Fellow
Twin Sons of Different Mothers: John Wheeler, Edward Teller, and the Cold War Quest for Peace through Military Hegemony, 1948–1983*
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
Join scholars from the area at the Regional Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine for a discussion of science and Cold War politics. Commentary by Erik P. Rau.
Please download the paper and read it in advance.
News and Notes
The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy
Andrew Berns is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Dissertation Research Fellowship for his studies of the connections between medical and biblical commentaries in late Renaissance Italy. Here is a report on his work.
PACHSmörgåsbord
S. W. Mitchell and Phantom Limbs
February 4, 2010 by Darin
Stephen Johnston on Early-Modern Chymistry
January 27, 2010 by Darin
Call for Proposals: Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium
January 26, 2010 by Bonnie
HoS Micropost: Science vs. Religion, again
January 25, 2010 by Darin
File Pluto under “K” for “Kuiper Belt”
January 24, 2010 by Darin
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