History of science page

The History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Kean University is now offering course work in the history of science, technology and medicine. These courses are open to all majors, and cover a range of fascinating topics from the Industrial Revolution to the role of doctors in America to technological advances from Asia to controversies over human evolution, to the growing corporate control of medicine: From our earliest ancestors to the Egyptians to Darwin to electromagnetic theory and thermodynamics to the dinosaurs.

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Courses available as of Fall 2008:

• Social and Cultural History of Disease HIST2050

• History of Medicine in America
http://www.kean.edu/~bregal/HIST3323.htm

• History of Science
http://www.kean.edu/~bregal/HIST3852.htm

• Industrial Revolution
http://www.kean.edu/~bregal/HIST4235.htm

• Modern Scientific and Technological Impact (STS) HIST4882

• Impact of Science and Technology on Culture HIST5810 (Graduate)

Coming in Spring 2009:

• Human Evolution and Modern Society HIST4876
http://www.kean.edu/~bregal/HIST4876.htm

Coming in Fall 2009:

• History of Alchemy and the Origins of Modern Science

• Click here for the Undergraduate Catalog to see course descriptions.

Useful links:

These are the premier history of science and technology societies:
History of Science Society http://www.hssonline.org/
British Society for the History of Science http://www.bshs.org.uk/
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
http://www.historyoftechnology.org/

All things Darwin including correspondence and diaries:
Darwin OnLine http://darwin-online.org.uk/

All things Thomas Edison:
The Edison Papers http://edison.rutgers.edu/

An excellent local group:
Medical History Society of New Jersey http://www.mhsnj.org/

Student originated pod casting on the History of Science
'The Missing Link' http://missinglinkpodcast.wordpress.com/

The most notorious body snatchers in history:
New York Academy of Medicine "The Resurrectionists"
http://www.nyam.org/library/pages/historical_collections_resurrectionists

Source for historical scientific instruments:
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/

Radio and television history resource:
The David Sarnoff Library http://www.davidsarnoff.org/

Medieval Astrolabe

A knowledge of the history of science, technology and medicine adds to a student's wider understanding of the human condition. For history majors these classes provide a grounding in one of the central engines that drives human history. For science and technology majors these courses offer the crucial historical background to their major fields.

• For more information contact

Dr. Brian Regal
History Department
W-205
7-4252

Website: http://www.kean.edu/~bregal

bregal@kean.edu