Courses in the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine

Courses

The following courses are representative of those offered by members of the center. Not all are offered in any one year.

General Areas of History of Science

Antiquity to Scientific Revolution I, II
Swerdlow

Continental Rationalism
Garber

Institutionalized Knowledge: The Human Sciences and Professions in 19th Century France
Goldstein

History of the Book
Johns

German Romanticism
Richards

Goethe: Literature and Science
Richards

Philosophy of History: Narrative and Explanation
Richards

Seminar on Important Things
Garber, Johns, Richards

Workshop in the History and Philosophy of Science
Staff

History and Philosophy of Biology and Medicine

History of Medicine
Winter

Medicine and Culture
Comaroff

Darwin's Origin of Species
Richards

From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology I, II
Richards

History and Theory of Human Evolution
Tuttle

Philosophy of Biology
Wimsatt

History of the Social Sciences

History of Sexuality
Davidson

History, Epistemology, and Morality of Sex
Davidson

Memory: History of a Mental Faculty and of a Historiography
Goldstein

From Evolutionism to Functionalism in British Anthropology
Stocking

Ethnographic Practice in Historical Perspective
Stocking

History of Anthropology
Stocking

Mesmerism and Psychology in the 19th century
Winter

Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Johns

Workshop in the History of Human Sciences
Goldstein, Johns, Richards, Stocking, Winter

History of the Physical Sciences and Mathematics

History of Astronomy
Swerdlow

Galileo and the Church
Swerdlow

Astronomy in the Scientific Revolution
Swerdlow

Descartes Metaphysical Physics
Garber

History of Statistics
Stigler

Scientific/Technologic Change
Wimsatt

The Infinite
Tait

This list was last revised on 8/24/2001.