Particle beams and Twentieth Century science and technology

Abstract The absence of ordinary women from histories of science and technology may be partially explained by what has been excluded as science, as well as who have been excluded as women of science. Although the delegation of medical technology to Ontario nurses increased rapidly during the mid-twentieth century, we know very little regarding how these ordinary women engaged in science and medical technology through the everyday practice of "body work." Gender structured the working relationships between predominantly-male physicians and predominantly-female nurses, shaping the process of delegation and generating significant changes in nurses' work as well as who provided bedside care. Trained nurses parlayed these new technological skills to their advantage, enabling the extension of technological care at the bedside and assuring their roles as essential for the functioning of the hospital system.

Complexity and Fuzziness in 20th Century Science and Technology

Communications in Computer and Information Science - Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Applications ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-14058-7_37 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 356-365

Author(s):

Rudolf Seising

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Century Science ◽

20Th Century Science

Early Twentieth-Century Science Fiction: The Pulps

The History of Science Fiction ◽

10.1057/9780230554658_9 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 173-194

Author(s):

Adam Roberts

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Science Fiction ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Century Science

FOOD HABITS AND TABOOS AND THE POTENTIALS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Evaluation of Novel Protein Products ◽

10.1016/b978-0-08-006635-6.50008-1 ◽

1970 ◽

pp. 23-32

Author(s):

S.A. GOLDBLITH

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Food Habits ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Food Science

Science in The Children's Encyclopedia and its appropriation in the twentieth century in Latin America

BJHS Themes ◽

10.1017/bjt.2018.4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 105-128

Author(s):

BERNARDO JEFFERSON DE OLIVEIRA

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Latin America ◽

Special Reference ◽

Technological Innovation ◽

Science And Technology ◽

South American ◽

Historical Process ◽

The Core ◽

Science And Technology Education ◽

The North

AbstractIn the early twentieth century, encyclopedias addressed to children and youths became special reference works concerning science and technology education. In search of greater comprehension of this historical process, I analyse The Children's Encyclopedia’s representation of science and technology, and how it was re-edited by the North American publishing company that bought its copyrights and promoted its circulation in several countries. Furthermore, I examine how its contents were appropriated in its translations into Portuguese and Spanish, which circulated in Latin America in the first half of the twentieth century. The comparison between the different versions reveals that the writings of science and technology are practically the same, with significant changes only in literature and in the approach of historical and geographical themes. I then argue that, even keeping the scientific contents virtually unchanged, these versions of the encyclopedia gave it a new meaning, because of the contexts in which they circulated. Finally, I show how the appropriations of the encyclopedia contributed to the promotion of scientific values and technological innovation as the core development and as a model of civilization for South American nations.

Body Parts: Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Short Stories by Women

PMLA ◽

10.1632/003081204x20532 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 119 (3) ◽

pp. 474-481 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jane Donawerth

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Science Fiction ◽

Cosmetic Surgery ◽

South American ◽

Body Parts ◽

Women's Bodies ◽

Domestic Technology ◽

Modern Business ◽

American Author ◽

Century Science

This essay is a feminist, historical exploration of body parts in short science fiction stories by women. In early-twentieth-century stories about prostheses, blood transfusion, and radioactive experiments, Clare Winger Harris, Kathleen Ludwick, and Judith Merril use body parts to explore fears of damage to masculine identity by war, of alienation of men from women, and of racial pollution. In stories from the last quarter of the twentieth century, the South American author Angélica Gorodischer depicts a housewife's escape from oppressive domestic technology through time travel in which she murders male leaders, while Eileen Gunn offers a critique of bioengineering and sociobiology, satirizing fears of women in modern business and of erasure of identity in global corporate structures. An end-of-the-century fiction by the African American Akua Lezli Hope imagines a black woman altered through cosmetic surgery to become a tenor sax and critiques technologies that transform women's bodies into cultural signifiers of social function and class.