Keith R Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 992810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith R Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith R |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
Tunnel Visions is a detailed and engaging account of the development of the superconducting supercollider, one of the largest scientific undertakings in the United States during its century of “big science,” from the origin of the supercollider in 1987 to its eventual abandonment in 1993. The initial goal was to build the world's largest particle accelerator to produce controlled, extraordinarily high-energy electron and proton collisions. Physic…
Marine biology, intertidal ecology, and a new place for biology
Oceanography and the cold war effect
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Aaron Sachs's first book, The Humboldt Current, is certainly ambitious. Based on his dissertation (Yale University, 2004), it seeks to correct traditional imperialistic interpretations of nineteenth-century exploration by selecting several American explorers who, he argues, followed Alexander von Humboldt's “ecological” insights to forge the beginnings of environmentalism. Thus we begin with a tall agenda, which Sachs works through by identifying…
Eloge: David K. van Keuren, 1950-2004
Biologists and the Promise of American Life, from Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey (review)
Since the early 1980s, an increasing number of historians of science have been drawn to study the history of American biology. As a result, there are an impressive number of monographs addressing many aspects of that history, along with several contributed volumes exploring the richness and diversity of biology as it developed in its American context. However, historians of biology have not been able to point to a work that offered a broad overvi…
The Unabomber and the History of Science
News of the Society
The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Preface Part I. The End of the Renaissance, 1600-1670: 1. The medical and scientific spirit of the first half of the seventeenth century 2. The battle with shadows 3. In search of clear ideas Conclusion Part II. The Scientists' Philosophy, 1670-1745: 4. The new scientific mentality 5. New discoveries in animal reproduction 6. The pre-existence of germs Conclusion Part III. The Philosophers' Science, 1745-1770: 8. Precursors and mavericks 9. Buffo…
Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism . James O'Connor
Flail on, Columbia: An Irreverent Look at HSS's Soggiest Subsection, the Columbia History of Science Group
To Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California
Journal Article To Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California. By Richard C. Sawyer. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1996. xxvi, 290 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-8138-2755-8.) Get access Keith R. Benson Keith R. Benson University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 278–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/29528…
The Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and Organic Life . David F. Channell
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology . Philip J. Pauly
The American Development of Biology
Journal Article The American Development of Biology. Ed. by Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson, and Jane Maienschein. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xii + 380 pp. $37.95.) Get access Donna J. Haraway Donna J. Haraway University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 947–948, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Laboratories on the New England Shore: The "Somewhat Different Direction" of American Marine Biology
IN 1873, shortly after Anton Dohrn had founded his remarkably influential marine station, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Louis Agassiz opened a summer school in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, on Penikese Island. Dohrn had provided encouragement and a model for establishing other marine stations worldwide both in terms of institutional organization and support and in terms of research activities, which originally centered around descriptive stud…
The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever . Ignaz Semmelweis, K. Codell Carter
The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Preface Part I. The End of the Renaissance, 1600-1670: 1. The medical and scientific spirit of the first half of the seventeenth century 2. The battle with shadows 3. In search of clear ideas Conclusion Part II. The Scientists' Philosophy, 1670-1745: 4. The new scientific mentality 5. New discoveries in animal reproduction 6. The pre-existence of germs Conclusion Part III. The Philosophers' Science, 1745-1770: 8. Precursors and mavericks 9. Buffo…
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Aaron Sachs's first book, The Humboldt Current, is certainly ambitious. Based on his dissertation (Yale University, 2004), it seeks to correct traditional imperialistic interpretations of nineteenth-century exploration by selecting several American explorers who, he argues, followed Alexander von Humboldt's “ecological” insights to forge the beginnings of environmentalism. Thus we begin with a tall agenda, which Sachs works through by identifying…
Marine biology, intertidal ecology, and a new place for biology
Eloge: David K. van Keuren, 1950-2004
The Unabomber and the History of Science
The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever . Ignaz Semmelweis, K. Codell Carter
Laboratories on the New England Shore: The "Somewhat Different Direction" of American Marine Biology
IN 1873, shortly after Anton Dohrn had founded his remarkably influential marine station, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Louis Agassiz opened a summer school in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, on Penikese Island. Dohrn had provided encouragement and a model for establishing other marine stations worldwide both in terms of institutional organization and support and in terms of research activities, which originally centered around descriptive stud…
The American Development of Biology
Journal Article The American Development of Biology. Ed. by Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson, and Jane Maienschein. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xii + 380 pp. $37.95.) Get access Donna J. Haraway Donna J. Haraway University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 947–948, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology . Philip J. Pauly
The Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and Organic Life . David F. Channell
To Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California
Journal Article To Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California. By Richard C. Sawyer. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1996. xxvi, 290 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-8138-2755-8.) Get access Keith R. Benson Keith R. Benson University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 278–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/29528…
The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Preface Part I. The End of the Renaissance, 1600-1670: 1. The medical and scientific spirit of the first half of the seventeenth century 2. The battle with shadows 3. In search of clear ideas Conclusion Part II. The Scientists' Philosophy, 1670-1745: 4. The new scientific mentality 5. New discoveries in animal reproduction 6. The pre-existence of germs Conclusion Part III. The Philosophers' Science, 1745-1770: 8. Precursors and mavericks 9. Buffo…
Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism . James O'Connor
Flail on, Columbia: An Irreverent Look at HSS's Soggiest Subsection, the Columbia History of Science Group
News of the Society
The Unabomber and the History of Science
Biologists and the Promise of American Life, from Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey (review)
Since the early 1980s, an increasing number of historians of science have been drawn to study the history of American biology. As a result, there are an impressive number of monographs addressing many aspects of that history, along with several contributed volumes exploring the richness and diversity of biology as it developed in its American context. However, historians of biology have not been able to point to a work that offered a broad overvi…
Eloge: David K. van Keuren, 1950-2004
Oceanography and the cold war effect
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Aaron Sachs's first book, The Humboldt Current, is certainly ambitious. Based on his dissertation (Yale University, 2004), it seeks to correct traditional imperialistic interpretations of nineteenth-century exploration by selecting several American explorers who, he argues, followed Alexander von Humboldt's “ecological” insights to forge the beginnings of environmentalism. Thus we begin with a tall agenda, which Sachs works through by identifying…
Marine biology, intertidal ecology, and a new place for biology
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
Tunnel Visions is a detailed and engaging account of the development of the superconducting supercollider, one of the largest scientific undertakings in the United States during its century of “big science,” from the origin of the supercollider in 1987 to its eventual abandonment in 1993. The initial goal was to build the world's largest particle accelerator to produce controlled, extraordinarily high-energy electron and proton collisions. Physic…
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