Michael A Osborne

Biographic Data

ID308363
NAMEMichael A Osborne
GIVEN NAMESMichael A
FAMILY NAMEOsborne
SIGNATUREOSBORNE M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID0000-0002-5474-342X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT23
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Vaccination

    Michael A Osborne, Michael OsborneARTICLEIsis2026

  • Enlightenment Biopolitics

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2025

  • The future of employment

    Open AccessCarl Benedikt Frey, Michael A OsborneARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2017

  • Networks in Tropical Medicine

    Michael A OsborneARTICLESocial History2013Cited by: 3

  • Medical Climatology in France

    Michael A Osborne, Richard S FogartyARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2012

    In interwar France the Lyonnais physician Marius Piéry undertook an ambitious Neo-Hippocratic research program to study how atmospheric and terrestrial environments influenced health. Lyon had a number of institutions linked to the colonies and was a center for the training of military physicians. Colonial physicians had a long tradition of contending with the diseases of tropical environments, and their ideas and many returned colonials circulat…

  • The Plot

    Michael A Osborne, M OsborneARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2007

    Journal Article The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Will Eisner. New York: Norton, 2005. vii + 148 pages. $19.95 cloth, $14.95 paper and The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue. Will Eisner. New York: Norton, 2005. xx + 498 pages. $29.95 cloth. Get access The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Will Eisner. New York: Norton, 2005. vii + 148 pages. $19.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.T…

  • Science and the French Empire

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEIsis2005Cited by: 10References: 13

    Scholarly interest in French colonial science, interpreted to include colonial medical and scientific institutions as well as personages and other "actors" in France serving colonial agendas, has been robust for some two decades. This essay characterizes the complex and interlinked historical relationships between French metropolitan and colonial science as one of asymmetric coevolution. In analyzing scholarship on diverse topics from physics and…

  • Medecins voyageurs

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    In France, the term médecins voyageurs, like the associated term médecinsnavigants, frequently connoted naval physicians or surgeons who traveled on ship; for the land-locked Swiss, it simply meant physicians who traveled. Two of Geneva's peripatetic medical men, Louis Odier (1748-1817) and Louis-André Gosse (1791-1872), composed the unpublished manuscripts investigated in this volume, namely Odier's proposals of fellowships for medical travel an…

  • Views from the periphery

    Michael A Osborne, Michael Osborne et al.ARTICLEHistory & Philosophy of the Life…2003Cited by: 1References: 14

  • Defeated Flesh

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    This broadly contextualized study of militarization and medicalization during the Franco-Prussian War takes its cue from Pierre Nora's work on memory. While military and civilian medical activities during 1870-71 provide a pivot for Defeated Flesh, the narrative glances back into the state of French army medicine during the Second Empire and looks forward to the fate of injured war veterans on the eve of the Great War. In this, the book stands ap…

  • Laboratoires du nouveau siècle

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEIsis2001

  • Acclimatizing the World

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEOsiris2000Cited by: 23

    This paper examines the institutions, personages, and the theories that informed acclimatization activities in nineteenth-century France, England, and the two colonies of Algeria and Australia. Treating acclimatization as a scientific concept and activity the essay begins with the conditions of its emergence in Enlightenment France. Subsequent sections trace the growth of the acclimatization movement and its translation to the British context, an…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessMichael A OsborneARTICLEScience Technology and Society1999

  • Almost a man of genius

    Open AccessMichael A OsborneARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1998

  • Agronomia Afranceada

    Open AccessJoseph Cotter, J P Cotter et al.ARTICLEScience Technology and Society1996

  • Agronomía Afranceada

    Open AccessJoseph Cotter, Michael A OsborneARTICLEScience Technology and Society1996

    In this paper, which is based on a review of archival and published primary and secondary sources from many repositories in Mexico, France and the United States, we discuss the impact of French agronomy on the development of this scientific discipline in Mexico. We consider the evolution of Mexican agronomy in the context of the nation's political history, discuss the rise of French influence during the nineteenth century, examine the impact of t…

  • Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism

    François Charette, Michael A OsborneARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

  • Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism

    William B Cohen, Michael A OsborneARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1996

  • Les professeurs du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEIsis1995

  • Civilizing Mission

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEIsis1994

  • Lives at Risk

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEIsis1991

  • Aux sources de la biologie

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEIsis1991

  • Measures and Men. Witold Kula , Richard Szreter

    Michael A OsborneARTICLEIsis1989