Karen A Rader
Biographic Data
| ID | 205185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen A Rader |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rader |
| SIGNATURE | RADER K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3431-270X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Fish Don't Exist
Brain Magnet
Reviewed by: Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy by Alex Sayf Cummings Karen A. Rader (bio) Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy By Alex Sayf Cummings. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 248. In 1868, when Jefferson Davis first articulated the idea that the U.S. South "shall rise again," he could not have imagined one of its forms as a high-tech university-business par…
Introduction
This introduction to an Isis Focus section on pedagogy reflects on the changing institutional and political landscapes of the "two cultures" debate in education—both at the inception of the field of history of science and now. It discusses how pedagogical visions for our field have shaped and been shaped by relationships between the humanities and the sciences in colleges and universities, as well as by evolving scholarship in history education a…
Introduction to the special issue Biology and Technology Reframed
Janet M. Davis. The Gospel of Kindness
Few dimensions of the historian’s craft are as crucial as articulating and defending our explanatory scales—and many historiographical trends hinge on polarized approaches to this problem. “Big history,” drawing from disciplines like biological anthropology and cosmology, aims to paint a coherent interdisciplinary picture of human alterations and adaptations on the largest possible canvas of time and space, from the “big bang” to the present day.…
Bodily Subjects
Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000, edited by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, and Wendy Mitchinson. Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. x, 395 pp. $110.00 Cdn (cloth) $34.95 Cdn (paper). Where should we look for the meaning of health? The cover illustration of Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000 provocatively suggests a site and method for just such an exploration: a circa 1940s…
Alan Mikhail. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
Journal Article Alan Mikhail. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt. Get access Alan Mikhail. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 315. $49.95. Karen A. Rader Karen A. Rader Virginia Commonwealth University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 5, December 2014, Pages 1821–1822, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.5.182…
From natural history to science
This paper explains how and why many American museums of science and nature moved away from the traditional content and methods of natural history in the period from 1930 to 1980. It explores diverse motivations for the shift from dead, stuffed displays to live, interactive exhibits, and the consequences of that shift for museums as both educational institutions and as institutions of research. Ultimately, it argues that debates over museums’ con…
Whose history is A guinea pig’s history
Science in the Everyday World
The history of science is more than the history of scientists. This essay argues that various modem "publics" should be counted as belonging within an enlarged vision of who constitutes the "scientific community"--and describes how the history of science could be important for understanding their experiences. It gives three examples of how natural knowledge-making happens in vernacular contexts: Victorian Britain's publishing experiments in "popu…
Eloge
Making Mice
Private Science
When Edward R. Murrow declared in 1964, "the speed of communications is wondrous to behold," 1 he could not have envisioned the even faster-moving future of biotechnology. Originating from a 1993 Chemical Heritage Foundation conference, this volume strives (as editor and CHF director Arnold Thackray notes in his introduction) to make an original "contribution to the new discourse on the structure and significance of biotechnology and the Biomolec…
Picturing biology
Of Mice, Medicine, and Genetics
Big Science
Science in the Everyday World
The history of science is more than the history of scientists. This essay argues that various modem "publics" should be counted as belonging within an enlarged vision of who constitutes the "scientific community"--and describes how the history of science could be important for understanding their experiences. It gives three examples of how natural knowledge-making happens in vernacular contexts: Victorian Britain's publishing experiments in "popu…
Big Science
Of Mice, Medicine, and Genetics
Big Science
Picturing biology
Of Mice, Medicine, and Genetics
Private Science
When Edward R. Murrow declared in 1964, "the speed of communications is wondrous to behold," 1 he could not have envisioned the even faster-moving future of biotechnology. Originating from a 1993 Chemical Heritage Foundation conference, this volume strives (as editor and CHF director Arnold Thackray notes in his introduction) to make an original "contribution to the new discourse on the structure and significance of biotechnology and the Biomolec…
Making Mice
Eloge
From natural history to science
This paper explains how and why many American museums of science and nature moved away from the traditional content and methods of natural history in the period from 1930 to 1980. It explores diverse motivations for the shift from dead, stuffed displays to live, interactive exhibits, and the consequences of that shift for museums as both educational institutions and as institutions of research. Ultimately, it argues that debates over museums’ con…
Whose history is A guinea pig’s history
Science in the Everyday World
The history of science is more than the history of scientists. This essay argues that various modem "publics" should be counted as belonging within an enlarged vision of who constitutes the "scientific community"--and describes how the history of science could be important for understanding their experiences. It gives three examples of how natural knowledge-making happens in vernacular contexts: Victorian Britain's publishing experiments in "popu…
Alan Mikhail. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
Journal Article Alan Mikhail. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt. Get access Alan Mikhail. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 315. $49.95. Karen A. Rader Karen A. Rader Virginia Commonwealth University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 5, December 2014, Pages 1821–1822, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.5.182…
Bodily Subjects
Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000, edited by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, and Wendy Mitchinson. Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. x, 395 pp. $110.00 Cdn (cloth) $34.95 Cdn (paper). Where should we look for the meaning of health? The cover illustration of Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000 provocatively suggests a site and method for just such an exploration: a circa 1940s…
Janet M. Davis. The Gospel of Kindness
Few dimensions of the historian’s craft are as crucial as articulating and defending our explanatory scales—and many historiographical trends hinge on polarized approaches to this problem. “Big history,” drawing from disciplines like biological anthropology and cosmology, aims to paint a coherent interdisciplinary picture of human alterations and adaptations on the largest possible canvas of time and space, from the “big bang” to the present day.…
Introduction to the special issue Biology and Technology Reframed
Introduction
This introduction to an Isis Focus section on pedagogy reflects on the changing institutional and political landscapes of the "two cultures" debate in education—both at the inception of the field of history of science and now. It discusses how pedagogical visions for our field have shaped and been shaped by relationships between the humanities and the sciences in colleges and universities, as well as by evolving scholarship in history education a…
Brain Magnet
Reviewed by: Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy by Alex Sayf Cummings Karen A. Rader (bio) Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy By Alex Sayf Cummings. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 248. In 1868, when Jefferson Davis first articulated the idea that the U.S. South "shall rise again," he could not have imagined one of its forms as a high-tech university-business par…
Why Fish Don't Exist
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