Chemical Sciences in the Modern World / / ed. by Seymour H. Mauskopf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Abir-Am, Pnina G.,; Brandt, E. N.,; Bud, Robert,; Friedel, Robert,; Hamlin, Christopher,; Hiebert, Erwin N.,; Holmes, Frederic L.,; Jensen, William B.,; Kohler, Robert E.,; Lesch, John E.,; Mauskopf, Seymour H.,; Nye, Mary Jo,; Rabkin, Yakov M.,; Rocke, Alan J.,; Samuels, Helen W.,; Servos, John W.,; Smith, John Kenly,; Warnow-Blewett, Joan,; White, Suzanne,
• HerausgeberIn: Mauskopf, Seymour H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Chemical Sciences in Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 14 illus.

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the chemical sciences to the modern world. In the last 150 years, they have transformed our physical environment, our material culture, our manner of living, and even our persons-and they are continuing to do so in profound ways. Yet the detailed and systematic study of the history of the modern chemical sciences has been relatively late in coming.This compilation of essays by leading scholars represents the first fruits of modern historical scholarship. The essays vary in form and content: some represent detailed, original research; others are cast as synoptic blueprints for future research in major domains of scholarship; still others are provocative reflections on the opportunities and challenges facing historians of chemical sciences and industries and their audiences.The essays in Part One deal with the experimental generation of new chemical knowledge, the nature of theories about chemical knowledge, and the reception of new knowledge by the chemical community. Part Two is devoted primarily to the development of modern industrial chemistry. Part Three is concerned with preserving archives and artifacts owned by public and private institutions, with making the history of chemistry accessible to persons interested but not trained in history, and with helping both policymakers and the general public to understand the policy issues involving the chemical sciences and industries trough the insights provided by historical research. Part Four, the concluding section, discusses future prospects for the history f the chemical sciences, addressing questions about methodology, audience, and new directions for research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Chemical Sciences in the Modern World -- I: Practice -- THEORETICAL -- Philosophies of Chemistry Since the Eighteenth Century -- TECHNICAL -- Uses and Images of Instruments in Chemistry -- Systems of Production: Drosophila, Neurospora, and Biochemical Genetics -- SOCIAL -- The Quiet Revolution of the 1850s: Social and Empirical Sources of Scientific Theory -- Justus Liebig and the Construction of Organic Chemistry -- Part II: Production -- The Evolution of the Chemical Industry: A Technological Perspective -- Chemistry and Biomedicine in an Industrial Setting: The Invention of the Sulfa Drugs -- Defining Chemistry: Origins of the Heroic Chemist -- Part III: Public Interface -- CHALLENGE TO PRESERVE -- Documenting Modern Chemistry: The Historical Task of the Archivist -- Two Useful Tools for Documentation Strategies: Historical and Documentation Research -- CHALLENGE TO PUBLIC OUTREACH -- History of Chemistry and the Chemical Community: Bridging the Gap? -- The Museum, Meaning, and History: The Case of Chemistry -- CHALLENGE TO PUBLIC POLICY -- Between Knowledge and Action: Themes in the History of Environmental Chemistry -- The Chemogastric Revolution and the Regulation of Food Chemicals -- The Chemical Industries and Their Publics: How Can History Help? -- IV: Prospects -- The Prospect from Here -- Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered -- Women in Research Schools: Approaching an Analytical Lacuna in the History of Chemistry and Allied Sciences -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter