Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s

Contributors

Contributors Hamilton Cravens is professor of history, Iowa State University. Among his books are The Triumph of Evolution: The Nature-Nurture Controversy, 19001941 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988 paper edition) and Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America~ Children (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). He has just finished a book on American culture in the early twentieth century and is now working on a book on the history of the social and behavioral sciences in Europe and America since the Enlightenment. Robert B. Fairbanks is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. Among his books are Making Better Citizens: Housing Reform and the Community Development Strategy in Cincinnati, 1890-1960 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988) and Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990). He is also completing a book-length manuscript entitled "For the City as a Whole: Politics, Planning and the Public Interest in Dallas, 1920-1965." David M. Katzman is professor of American Studies and of history at the University of Kansas. He is author of Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973), Seven Days a ffiek: ~men and Domestic Service in Industrializing America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978) and coauthor of Plain Folk: The Life Histories if Undistinguished Americans (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982), Three Generations in Twentieth Century America (Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey, 1977), and 253 254 Contributors A People and a Nation (Boston: Houghton MifHin, 1990). Since 1977 he has been co-editor of American Studies. Edwin T. Layton is professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Revolt of the Engineers: Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession (Cleveland: Case-Western Reserve University Press, 1971), which won the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology, and numerous other books and papers, including Technology and Social Change in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1973). He has been president of the Society for the History of Technology and received the Leonardo da Vinci medal from that same society for his lifetime achievements. He is currently chair of the awards committee of the same society. His research interests include the interaction of science and technology, the history of water power, and engineering ethics. M. Susan Lindee is assistant professor of the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) and (with Dorothy Nelkin) Supergene: DNA in American Popular Culture (San Francisco: W H. Freeman, 1995). . Alan I Marcus is professor of history and director of the Center for Historical Studies at Iowa State University. He is author of Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations , 1870-1890 (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985); Technology in America: A Brief History (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989); Plague of Strangers: Social Groups and the Origins of City Services in Cincinnati (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1991); and Cancerfrom Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Corifidence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994). His latest book is Building U1?stern Civilization : From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., forthcoming, 1996). Zane L. Miller is professor of American history and director of the Center for Neighborhood and Community Studies at the University ofCincinnati. He is the author of many books, including Boss Cox~ Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), The Urbanization of Modern America (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1973); Suburb: Neighborhood and Community in Forest Park, Ohio, 1935-1976 (Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1981); and American Urbanism: A Historiographical Review (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1987). He is currently Contributors 255 writing a history of the Cincinnati neighborhood of Clifton and a study of city planning and the city's Over-the-Rhine district since 1925. In addition, he is editor of the Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series of the Ohio State University Press and of the Greater Cincinnati Bicentennial History Series of the University of Illinois Press. He is also past president of the Urban History Association. Judith Spraul-Schmidt is adjunct assistant professor in history, and lecturer in the evening college at the University of Cincinnati. She is on the City...