Christopher Lawrence

Biographic Data

ID547002
NAMEChristopher Lawrence
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMELawrence
SIGNATURELAWRENCE C
AFFILIATIONSRoyal Holloway University of London
ORCID0000-0002-0188-2127
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS80
TOTAL CITATIONS97
AUTHOR COUNT80
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • The balance of nuclear humility: Techno-optimism, complexity, and the perils of nuclear primacy

    Christopher LawrenceARTICLEArms Control2026References: 5

  • Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex

    Open AccessChristopher LawrenceARTICLESocial Studies of Science2024References: 11

    How have Western nongovernmental experts used remote sensing to make public knowledge about Iran’s nuclear program? This article recounts several episodes in which experts and journalists congregated around satellite images to uncover hidden nuclear objects in Iran. Drawing from the theoretical tradition of co-production, I describe this recurrent collective experience as an imaginative exercise that can both coordinate and transform diverse comm…

  • Ethics Inside the Black Box: Integrating Science and Technology Studies into Engineering and Public Policy Curricula

    Open AccessChristopher Lawrence, Sheila Jasanoff et al.ARTICLEScience and Engineering Ethics2023

  • Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited

    Open AccessChristopher LawrenceARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2021References: 11

    Robert Maxwell Young's first book Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (1970), written from 1960 to 1965, still merits reading as a study of the naturalization of mind and its relation to social thought in Victorian Britain. I examine the book from two perspectives that give the volume its unique character: first, Young's interest in psychology, which he considered should be used to inform humane professional practices and be the …

  • American Government 3e

    Glen Krutz, Sylvie Waskiewicz et al.BOOKAmerican Government 2e2021

    American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from the fundament…

  • Impact of a community-based pilot intervention to tackle childhood obesity: A ‘whole-system approach’ case study

    Open AccessErica Gadsby, Sarah Hotham et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Go-Golborne helped stakeholders and parents to develop a shared commitment to improving healthy weight in children, to identify barriers to a healthy lifestyle, and to start to make changes in their services/behaviours. The campaigns and changes made at micro-level appeared to be insufficient, in the face of counteracting forces and personal factors, to achieve significant behaviour change within 3 years. This highlights the need for local initia…

  • Normalization by Other Means—Technological Infrastructure and Political Commitment in the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

    Christopher LawrenceARTICLEInternational Security2020References: 10

    The 1994 Agreed Framework called for North Korea to dismantle its plutonium-production complex in exchange for civilian light water reactors (LWRs) and the promise of political normalization with the United States. The accord succeeded at rolling back North Korea's nuclear program, but the regime secretly began enriching uranium when the LWR project fell behind schedule. Today, scholars look back at the Agreed Framework as a U.S. offer of “carrot…

  • Heralds of global transparency: Remote sensing, nuclear fuel-cycle facilities, and the modularity of imagination

    Open AccessChristopher LawrenceARTICLESocial Studies of Science2019Cited by: 6References: 13

    How has commercial remote sensing influenced the framing of public narratives about nuclear programs and weapons of mass destruction? This article examines an early and formative case: In 2002, a Washington-based nongovernmental organization used commercial satellite images to publicly identify the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. The episode helped inaugurate the 'Iran nuclear crisis' as we have known it since. But it also played a role in fomen…

  • American Government 2e by OpenStax

    Glen Krutz, Adam Newmark et al.BOOKAmerican Government 2e2019

  • Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation ed. by Thomas Schlich and Christopher Crenner

    Christopher LawrenceARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2018

    Reviewed by: Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation ed. by Thomas Schlich and Christopher Crenner Christopher Lawrence Thomas Schlich and Christopher Crenner, eds. Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2017. 236 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-1-58046-594-6). Some years ago I was working on the…

  • The Conservative Tradition in British Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery 1900–1956

    Open AccessChristopher LawrenceARTICLESocial History of Medicine2018Cited by: 2

    Guy’s Hospital was a major setting for the creation of heart surgery as a practice and speciality in immediate post-war Britain. Medical reformers of the twentieth century characterised much London hospital medicine as conservative and not organised for the production of modern research. Through the minutes of a hospital club formed to manage congenital heart disease, the paper explores how dynamic surgical research was carried out in an institut…

  • Reinventing Hippocrates

    Christopher Lawrence, David CantorBOOKReinventing Hippocrates2017

    Reinventing Hippocrates Edited By David Cantor Copyright Year 2001 ISBN 9781138263550 Routledge 352 Pages

  • Re-Examination of Traditional Admissions Criteria in Predicting Academic Success in a Counselor Education Program

    Open AccessGregory T Hatchett, Christopher Lawrence et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for the…2016

  • The Tie That Binds: Exploring Community College Curriculum Design

    Open AccessBobbi Gentry, Christopher Lawrence et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2016References: 2

    More students are beginning their college careers at community colleges before completing degrees at four-year institutions. As enrollments swell at these two-year institutions, issues surrounding transfer and articulation agreements are increasingly important, and two- and four-year institutions must work together on the recruitment, retention, and transition of political science majors. Central to this collaboration is the curriculum. Building …

  • Quintessentially Modern Heroes: Surgeons, Explorers, and Empire, c.1840–1914

    Christopher Lawrence, Michael G Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social History2016Cited by: 2

    There is a rich longstanding literature examining the rise of surgery as the medical treatment of choice in the late nineteenth century. This has been added to in recent years by examination of the ways in which bodily knowledge was used as the basis of governance in industrial societies. There is likewise now a significant modern literature on exploration and colonialism. Here we link these two domains; using the examples of Africa and North Ame…

  • Keeping Up with the Congressmen: Evaluating Constituents’ Awareness of Redistricting

    Open AccessChristopher Lawrence, Christopher N Lawrence et al.ARTICLESocial Science Quarterly2015Cited by: 3References: 17

    Objective We seek to understand how voters respond to being drawn into a new congressional district: specifically, the new Seventh District of South Carolina created in 2012. Methods We employ data from a survey of voters in the new district, and employ descriptive statistics and logistic regression models to identify whether voters are aware of the new district, whether they expect better representation as a result, and to explain their likely v…

  • Ps: Political Science and Politics Reviewers, 2011

    Open AccessRegina Abrami, Gary Ackerman et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2012Cited by: 1References: 3

    In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…

  • Blogging in the Political Science Classroom

    Open AccessChristopher Lawrence, Christopher N Lawrence et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2010Cited by: 1References: 3

    Weblogs (or blogs), as a form of communication on the Internet, have recently risen in prominence but may be poorly understood by both faculty and students. This article explains how blogs differ from other online communication tools and how political science faculty can make use of blogs in their classes. The focus is on using blogs as part of class assignments to reinforce important skills, including critical thinking, political engagement, and…

  • Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery (review)

    Christopher LawrenceARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2007

    Reviewed by: Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery Christopher Lawrence Michael Bliss . Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 591 pp. Ill. $40.00 (ISBN-10: 0-19-516989-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516989-8). Not afraid to tackle the biography of the big medical guns, Michael Bliss has turned from William Osler to Harvey Cushing. This book is a must for all students of early twentieth-century America, and not simply t…

  • Operations without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain (review)

    Christopher LawrenceARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2007

    Reviewed by: Operations without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain Christopher Lawrence Stephanie J. Snow . Operations without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xii + 271 pp. Ill. $69.95 (ISBN-10: 1-4039-3445-2, ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-3445-1). The history of anesthesia has long been an are…

  • The Evolution of Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century (review)

    Christopher LawrenceARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2007

    Reviewed by: The Evolution of Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century Christopher Lawrence John Kirkup . The Evolution of Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century. Norman Surgery Series, no. 13; Norman Science and Technology Series, no. 8. Novato, Calif.: historyofscience.com, 2005. xviii + 510 pp. Ill. $275.00 (0-930405-86-2). There has not been a co…

  • Of Shirking, Outliers, and Statistical Artifacts: Lame-Duck Legislators and Support for Impeachment

    Open AccessChristopher Lawrence, Christopher N LawrenceARTICLEPolitical Research Quarterly2007Cited by: 8References: 13

    It has been previously argued that there is substantial evidence that lame-duck Republican members of Congress were less supportive of the impeachment of Bill Clinton than their colleagues who returned in the 106th Congress. The author shows that this conclusion—based on a marginally significant interaction term—is actually the result of two statistical artifacts: the choice of estimator used and the inclusion in the model of five Democratic repr…

  • "A Famous and Flourishing Society": The History of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1505-2005 (review)

    Christopher LawrenceARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    Reviewed by: "A Famous and Flourishing Society": The History of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1505-2005 Christopher Lawrence Helen M. Dingwall . "A Famous and Flourishing Society": The History of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1505-2005. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. xxiii + 336 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-7486-1567-9). (Distributed by Columbia University Press, 61 W. 62nd St., New York, NY 10023) One could think …

  • The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery (review)

    Christopher LawrenceARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    Reviewed by: The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery Christopher Lawrence Wendy Moore . The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery. London: Bantam, 2005. xiii + 482 pp. Ill. £18.99 (0-593-05209-9). It is now a commonplace, almost the first rule that the aspiring historian learns, that writers can portray, reconstruct, "make out," create, or re-create th…

  • Teaching Research Methods Track Summary

    Amy Brandon, Mitchell Brown et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2006Cited by: 1

    The Teaching Research Methods Track at the third annual APSA Teaching and Learning Conference included 26 participants from schools ranging from small colleges to major research universities. The program included presentations on the state of the undergraduate research methods field, information literacy, and a variety of teaching innovations, culminating in a large group discussion where we agreed upon a common set of strengths, opportunities, a…