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

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Contents Acknowledgments IX Introduction. Technical Knowledge in American Culture: An Analysis Hamilton Cravens and Alan I Marcus PART ONE: THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC CULTURE, 1800-1870 I. The Ohio Mechanic's Institute: The Challenge of Incivility in the Democratic Republic 21 Judith Spraul-Schmidt 2. The American Career ofJane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853 37 M. Susan Lindee 3. From Individual Practitioner to Regular Physician: Cincinnati Medical Societies and the Problem of Definition among Mid-Nineteenth-Century Americans 53 Alan I Marcus PART TWO: THE AGE OF HIERARCHY, 1870-1920 4. Diagnosing Unnatural Motherhood: Nineteenth-Century Physicians and "Puerperal Insanity" 73 Nancy M. Theriot viii Contents 5· The Inventor of the Mustache Cup: James Emerson and Populist Technology, 1870-1900 91 Edwin r Layton 6. Race-ism and the City: The Young Du Bois and the Role of Place in Social Theory, 1893-1901 110 Zane L. Miller 7· The German-American Science of Racial Nutrition, 1870-1920 125 Hamilton Cravens PART THREE: TOWARD AN INFINITY OF DIMENSIONS 8. The Case of the Manufactured Morons: Science and Social Policy in Two Eras, 1934-1966 149 Hamilton Cravens 9· Responding to the Airplane: Urban Rivalry, Metropolitan Regionalism, and Airport Development in Dallas, 1927-1965 169 Robert B. Fairbanks 10. Unanticipated Aftertaste: Cancer, the Role of Science, and the Question of DES Beef in Late Twentieth-Century American Culture 189 Alan I Marcus Afterword 206 Notes 209 Contributors 253 Index 257 ...