MIT HASTS Common Exam List

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1 MIT HASTS Common Exam List Version of 10 June 2008 Committee: Xaq Frohlich (fourth-year graduate student) Stefan Helmreich (Director of Graduate Studies) Lisa Messeri (second-year graduate student) Sophia Roosth (fourth-year graduate student) Ryan Shapiro (second-year graduate student) Rebecca Woods (second-year graduate student) Sara Wylie (fourth-year graduate student) The committee compiled this list of 125 works by examining as many past HASTS student exam bibliographies as could be found, paying special attention to readings that appeared again and again. The list means to replace Field 1 of the general exam, described as follows in the HASTS Student Handbook: Field 1: Each student selects one of the following three general areas for examination: social and cultural perspectives on science and technology; history of technology; or history of science. 1 The list covers all three areas. Some faculty may wish, in their individual administrations of the list, to add or subtract a few texts to align it with their own expertise and sense of the literature. The list intersects, though does not replace, lists in environmental history, history of medicine, and social theory, other areas of Program strength. To deliver fully on the promise of having an MIT flavor, the list includes one element (book or article) from each HASTS faculty person writing about science and technology. The list is organized as a chronological bibliography, the purpose of which is to help students build an intellectual history of the interdisciplinary conversation that is HASTS. Appendix 1 lists works by HASTS graduates, Appendix 2, readers and review articles. The works in these appendices are not part of the 125 works mentioned above. Citations, when possible, are to the original publication. Citation style follows the reference-list entry format described in the 15 th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, with four simplifying exceptions: book and journal titles are not italicized, article and book titles are rendered in Title Case, cities of publication are eliminated, and University Presses are indicated only by the name of the school. This minimalist style makes the list easier to scan. 1 Other fields as follows: Field 2: Treats a field of history or the social sciences. This examination probes the student's mastery of a field of history (e.g., Imperial Russian and Soviet history) or a field of one of the social sciences (e.g., theory and method in the study of culture). Field 3: This part, tailored to each student, examines the range and depth of understanding of the history or social study of a particular science or field of engineering (e.g., the history of modern biology; the social study of information technologies). This exam ordinarily anticipates the area of the student's doctoral dissertation. 1

2 MIT HASTS Common Exam List Weber, Max Science as a Vocation. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Translated from the German by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. Oxford, 1946, Mumford, Lewis Technics and Civilization. Harcourt. Popper, Karl The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Hutchinson, Fleck, Ludwig Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. Translated from the German by Fred Bradley and Thaddeus J. Trenn. Chicago, Merton, Robert The Normative Structure of Science. In The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. Chicago, 1973, Wiener, Norbert Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. MIT. Heidegger, Martin The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. Harper Perennial, Snow, C. P The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge. Kuhn, Thomas The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Second Edition (First Edition 1962). Chicago. Rosenberg, Charles The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and Chicago. Marx, Leo The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. Oxford. Bourdieu, Pierre The Specificity of the Scientific Field and the Social Conditions of the Progress of Reason. Social Science Information 14(6): Feyerabend, Paul Against Method. London: New Left Books. Bloor, David Knowledge and Social Imagery. Routledge and Kegan. Foucault, Michel The History of Sexuality, vol. 1. Translated from the French by Robert Hurley. Vintage, Chandler, Alfred The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Belknap. Noble, David F America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism. Oxford. 2

3 Merchant, Carolyn The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. Harper and Row. Smith, Merritt Roe Harper s Ferry Amory and New Technology. Cornell. Starr, Paul The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Basic Books. Beer, Gillian Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Routledge. Gieryn, Thomas Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non- Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists. American Sociological Review 48: Hacking, Ian Representing and Intervening. Cambridge. Manning, Kenneth Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just. Oxford. Collins, Harry Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice. Sage. Hounshell, David From the American System to Mass Production, : The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Johns Hopkins. Keller, Evelyn Fox Reflections on Gender and Science. Yale. Schwartz, Ruth Cowan More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. Basic Books. Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. Princeton. Latour, Bruno Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, Second Edition. Princeton. Latour, Bruno Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Harvard. Kuznick, Peter Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America. Chicago. Traweek, Sharon Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists. Harvard. Winner, Langdon The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology. Chicago. Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas P. Hughes, Trevor Pinch, eds The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. MIT. 3

4 Haraway, Donna Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge. Star, Susan Leigh and James. Griesemer Institutional Ecology, Translations, and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Reprinted in Mario Biagioli, ed. The Science Studies Reader. Routledge, 1999, Yates, JoAnne Control through Communication. Johns Hopkins. Cronon, William Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, Norton. Postol, Ted. 1991/92. Lessons of the Gulf War Experience with Patriot. International Security, 16(3): Haraway, Donna Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. Pfaffenberger, Bryan The Social Anthropology of Technology. Annual Review of Anthropology 21: Clarke, Adele and Joan Fujimura, eds The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life Sciences. Princeton. Beck, Ulrich Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Sage. Rabinow, Paul Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality. In Incorporations, Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, eds. Zone, Biagioli, Mario Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism. Chicago. Durant, John What Is Scientific Literacy? In Science and Culture in Europe, J. R. Durant & J. Gregory, eds. Science Museum, Hughes, Thomas Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, Johns Hopkins. Pickering, Andrew The Mangle of Practice: Agency and Emergence in the Sociology of Science. American Journal of Sociology 99(3): Kohler, Robert E Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life. Chicago. Martin, Emily Flexible Bodies: The Role of Immunity in American Culture from the Says of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Beacon. Bijker, W. E Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs. Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change. MIT. 4

5 Turkle, Sherry Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon and Schuster. White, Richard The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill and Wang. Castells, Manuel The Rise of the Network Society. Blackwell. Edwards, Paul The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. MIT. Epstein, Steven Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. California. Gusterson, Hugh Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. California. Nye, David American Technological Sublime. MIT. Porter, Ted Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton. Wynne, Brian May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View on the Expert/Lay Knowledge Divide. In Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology. Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Brian Wynne, eds. Sage. Bray, Francesca Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. California. Galison, Peter Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. Chicago. Haraway, Donna Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan _ Meets_OncoMouse : Feminism and Technoscience. Routledge. Lederer, Susan Subjected to Science. Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War. Johns Hopkins. Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Stanford. Downey, Gary The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers. Routledge. Poovey, Mary A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago. Ritvo, Harriet The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination. Harvard. Smith, Crosbie The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. Chicago. 5

6 Dower, John Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. Norton. Hayles, N. Katherine How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago. Knorr-Cetina, Karin Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Harvard. Oreskes, Naomi The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science. Oxford. Prakash, Gyan Science and the Imagination of Modern India. Princeton. Sur, Abha Aesthetics, Authority, and Control in an Indian Laboratory: The Raman- Born Controversy on Lattice Dynamics. Isis 90(1): Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Susan Leigh Star Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. MIT. Hilgartner, Stephen Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama. Stanford. Jackson, Jean Camp Pain : Talking with Chronic Pain Patients. Penn. Kay, Lily Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code. Stanford. Rapp, Rayna Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: A Social History of Amniocentesis in America. Routledge. Rotman, Brian Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting. Stanford. Duster, Troy The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology. In J.R. Blau, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Sociology. Blackwell. Daston, Lorraine and Katherine Park Wonders and the Order of Nature, Zone. Forsythe, Diana E Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence. Stanford. Fortun, Kim Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders. Chicago. Verran, Helen Science and an African Logic. Chicago. Russell, Edmund War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. Cambridge. Keller, Evelyn Fox Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. Harvard. 6

7 Lock, Margaret Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. California. Mindell, David Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics. Johns Hopkins. Mol, Annemarie The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice. Duke. Petryna, Adriana Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton. Browne, Janet Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Princeton. Doyle, Richard Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living. Minnesota. Fitzgerald, Deborah Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. Yale. Hayden, Cori When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico. Princeton. Keniston, Kenneth The Four Digital Divides. In IT Experience in India: Bridging the Digital Divide, K. Keniston and D. Kumar, eds. Sage, Mavhunga, Clapperton Firearms Diffusion, Exotic and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Lowveld Frontier, South Eastern Zimbabwe, Comparative Technology Transfer and Society 1(2): Silbey, Susan S. with Patricia Ewick The Architecture of Authority: The Place of Law in the Space of Science. In The Place of Law, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey, eds. Michigan, Dumit, Joseph Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Princeton. James, Erica The Political Economy of 'Trauma' in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 28(2): Jones, David Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since Harvard. Schiebinger, Londa Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science Rutgers. Walley, Christine Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Jasanoff, Sheila Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton. Kaiser, David Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. Chicago. 7

8 Thompson, Charis Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. MIT. Dear, Peter The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World. Chicago. Graham, Loren A. and Jean-Michel Kantor Comparison of Two Cultural Approaches to Mathematics: France and Russia, Isis 97: Lakoff, Andrew Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry. Cambridge. MacKenzie, Donald An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. MIT. Masco, Joe The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton. Barad, Karen Meeting The Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke. Brandt, Allan The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. Basic Books. Franklin, Sarah Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Duke. Lepinay, Vincent Parasitic Formulae: The Case of Capital Guarantee Products. Sociological Review 55 (Supplement 2): McCants, Anne Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption, and the Standard of Living: Thinking about Globalization in the Early Modern World. Journal of World History 18(4): Suchman, Lucy Human-Machine Reconfigurations. Cambridge. Paxson, Heather Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Artisanal Raw Milk Cheese in the United States. Cultural Anthropology 23(1): Haraway, Donna When Species Meet. Minnesota. Williams, Rosalind Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination, Second Edition. MIT. Helmreich, Stefan Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. California. Schull, Natasha. forthcoming. Machine Life: Control and Compulsion in Las Vegas. Princeton. Fischer, Michael MJ. forthcoming. Anthropological Futures. Duke. Hammonds, Evelynn. forthcoming. The Logic of Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States, North Carolina. 8

9 APPENDIX 1: WORKS BY GRADUATES OF HASTS Laird, Frank Participatory Analysis, Democracy, and Technological Decision Making. Science. Technology & Human Values 18(3): Josephson, Paul New Atlantis Revisited: The Siberian City of Science. Princeton. Sclove, Richard E Democracy and Technology. Guilford. Hoberg, George Science, Politics, and U.S. Forest Law: The Battle over the Forest Service Planning Rule. Natural Resources Journal 44(1): Biggs, Lindy The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology and Work in America s Age of Mass Production. Johns Hopkins. Colleen Dunlavy Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia. Princeton. Rosenberg, Ronni A Critical Analysis of Research on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Educational Technology 27 (11):7-13. Saxenian, AnnaLee The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in the Global Economy. Harvard. Herrigel, Gary Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power. Cambridge. Bimber, Bruce Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power. Cambridge. Guston, David Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research. Cambridge. Hart, David M Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, Princeton. Wang, Jessica American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War. North Carolina. O'Har, George Technology and Its Discontents. Technology and Culture 45(2): Botelho, Antonio Jose Junqueira The Professionalization of Brazilian Scientists, the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), and the State, Social Studies of Science 20(3): Wermiel, SE The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-century American City. Johns Hopkins. 9

10 Genuth, Joel Microwave Radar, the Atomic Bomb, and the Background to U. S. Research Priorities in World War II.Science, Technology, & Human Values13(3/4): Olwell, RB At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Tennessee. Bivins, RE Culture and Complements: Alternative Therapies in Contemporary Medicine. Reaktion. Herzig, Rebecca Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. Rutgers. Gerovitch, Slava From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. MIT. Mnookin, Jennifer The Image of Truth: Photographic Evidence and the Power of Analogy. Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 10: Landecker, Hannah Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies. Harvard. Clancey, Gregory Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, California. Greco, D Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric. Eastgate. Kelty, Chris Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Duke. Sunder Rajan, Kaushik Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Duke. Prentice. Rachel The Anatomy of a Surgical Simulation: The Mutual Articulation of Bodies in and through the Machine. Social Studies of Science 35(6): Turkel, William The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau. UBC. Sanal, Aslihan Robin Hood of Techno-Turkey or Organ-Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 28(3): Greenslit, Nate Depression and Consumption: Psychopharmaceuticals, Branding, and New Identity Practices. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 29(4): Hamilton, Shane. forthcoming.trucking Country: Agribusiness and the Rural Assault on Economic Liberalism in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton. Myers, Natasha Molecular Embodiments and the Body-work of Modeling in Protein Crystallography. Social Studies of Science 38(2):

11 APPENDIX 2: REVIEW ESSAYS, READERS Rouse, Joseph What Are Cultural Studies of Scientific Knowledge? Configurations 1(1): Traweek, Sharon An Introduction to Cultural, Gender, and Social Studies of Science and Technology. Journal of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 17:3-25. Haraway, Donna A Game of Cat's Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies. Configurations 1: Hess, David Science Studies: An Advanced Introduction. New York University. Smith, Merritt Roe and Gregory Clancey, eds Major Problems in the History of American Technology. Houghton Mifflin. Biagioli, Mario, ed The Science Studies Reader. Routledge. Jasanoff, Sheila, Gerald Markle, James Petersen, Trevor Pinch, eds Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition. Sage. Fischer, Michael M. J Modules for a Science, Technology, and Society Curriculum: In Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice. Duke, Fischer, Michael M. J Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology. Cultural Anthropology 22(4): Sismondo, Sergio An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies. Oxford: Blackwell. Hackett, Edward J., Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch and Judy Wajcman The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. MIT. Exam lists for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute s STS Graduate Program: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio Show: How to Think About Science 11