Peter Neushul

Biographic Data

ID1193547
NAMEPeter Neushul
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMENeushul
SIGNATURENEUSHUL P
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX3

  • War and Disease, Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century

    Peter NeushulARTICLESocial History of Medicine2009Cited by: 4

    Leo Slater's War and Disease examines work on anti-malarial drugs during the Second World War. Slater worked as a pharmaceutical research chemist before completing a doctorate in history at Princeton University. He is a fellow at the Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise specialising in twentieth-century biomedicine, science and technology. Slater's previous work on malaria includes an art…

  • The Male Pill

    Peter NeushulARTICLETechnology and Culture2006

    Reviewed by: The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making Peter Neushul (bio) The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making. By Nelly Oudshoorn. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+306. $21.95. Nelly Oudshoorn traces the history of efforts to develop a male counterpart to the Pill, the G. D. Searle corporation's synthetic progesterone antiovulent that was approved for general use by the Food and Drug Administration …

  • Contraception Across Cultures

    Peter NeushulARTICLETechnology and Culture2001

    Contraception Across Cultures is a selection of essays that stem from papers presented at a two-day international conference held at University College Stockton (now University of Durham, Stockton Campus) in 1996. The authors investigate the impact of contraception on society and vice versa from a cross-cultural anthropological perspective. There are case studies from Mexico, Haiti, Israel, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, and Tonga. Th…

  • Forged Consensus

    Peter NeushulARTICLEIsis2000

  • Between the Devil and the Deep Sea

    Peter Neushul, Zuoyue WangARTICLEIsis2000Cited by: 9

    C. K. Tseng was a Chinese marine botanist trained in the United States before World War II who pioneered ocean farming and launched China as the world's largest producer of marine algae. After succeeding in supplying China with a new source of food and chemicals, Tseng survived inhuman treatment during the turbulent decade of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and resumed his work in the late 1970s to help China's drive toward modernization. Tse…

  • Marie C. Stopes and the Popularization of Birth Control Technology

    Peter NeushulARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

    Au cours du XX e siecle, de nombreuses recherches et decouvertes ont ete effectuees en matiere de contraception pour reguler les naissances

  • Harvesting the Pacific

    Peter Neushul, Lawrence BadashARTICLEOsiris1998Cited by: 1

  • Science, Government and the Mass Production of Penicillin

    Peter NeushulARTICLEJournal of the History of…1993Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Science, Government and the Mass Production of Penicillin Get access PETER NEUSHUL PETER NEUSHUL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 1993, Pages 371–395, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/48.4.371 Published: 01 October 1993

  • Seaweed for War

    Peter NeushulARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

    a severe shortage of supplies to meet that demand, especially for explosives. When hostilities began in August 1914, Germany was the leading manufacturer of chemicals and, in particular, controlled the world's largest supply of mineral potash. Potash, an organic compound, is a major component of most plant fertilizers and is also used in the manufacture of black gunpowder. Germany placed an embargo on potash exports immediately after the start of…