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Tables of Contents for Beyond Joseph Needham
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Preface
ix
Charles S. Maier
Introduction
1
36
Pnina G. Abir-Am
PART I. COMMEMORATING GREAT MINDS: SCIENTISTS AS CULTURAL HEROES
The Copernican Quinquecentennial and its Predecessors: Historical Insights and National Agendas
37
24
Owen Gingerich
Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur: Contrasting Images through Public Commemorations
61
25
Christiane Sinding
A Focal Point for Feminism, Politics, and Science in France: The Clemence Royer Centennial Celebration of 1930
86
16
Joy Harvey
Changing Practices of Commemoration in Neurology: Comparing Charcot's 1925 and 1993 Centennials
102
16
Daniela S. Barberis
Medicine and the Culture of Commemoration: Representing Robert Koch's Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus
118
20
George E. Haddad
The Divided Centennial: The 1958 Max Planck Celebration(s) in Berlin
138
15
Dieter Hoffmann
PART II. COMMEMORATING SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS: THE RE/PRODUCTION SITES OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
The Tercentenary of Harvard University in 1936: The Scientific Dimension
153
23
Clark A. Elliott
The Enola Gay Affair: What Evidence Counts When We Commemorate Historical Events?
176
11
Stanley Goldberg
The Golden Jubilees of Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratories
187
16
Robert W. Seidel
Commemorative Practices at CERN: Between Physicists' Memories and Historians' Narratives
203
16
Dominique Pestre
PART III. COMMEMORATING SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES: MEMORIALIZING OBJECTIVITY
Bourbaki's Art of Memory
219
33
Liliane Beaulieu
Jocular Commemorations: The Copenhagen Spirit
252
22
Mara Beller
The 1959 Darwin Centennial Celebration in America
274
50
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
The First American and French Commemorations in Molecular Biology: From Collective Memory to Comparative History
324
49
Pnina G. Abir-Am
Notes on Contributors
373
2
Index
375