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The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
How does knowledge move? What happens when scientific, technical, medical, religious, and other forms of knowledge intersect? In what ways have scientists, technicians, and physicians won and wielded cultural authority? Just what have different people in different times and places meant by terms like “science”?
These are just some of the questions members of the history of science, technology, and medicine research theme address. The theme covers a wide range of eras and regions, from medieval to modern times, and from Britain, Europe, and the United States to China and Japan.
Current research engages with questions of production, use, and exchange of knowledge within a diverse set of topics and themes, such as:
- intellectual history
- theology/religion
- literaturex
- archaeology
- text and manuscript culture
- visual representation
- race, class, and gender
- professional identities
- media
- politics
- institutional history
- the human-animal ‘divide’
- household healthcare
- recipe books
We maintain strong links with ongoing interdisciplinary research projects, such as the Ordered Universe, and with centres and institutes, such as the Institute for Medical Humanities, the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society.