Medicine/Behavioral Science

RaceSci: History of Race in Science

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.

URL:

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/r/racescience/

Author:

Evelynn Hammonds, ed., History of Science Program in Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Excerpt:

The RaceSci Website is a resource for scholars and students interested in the history of "race" in science, medicine, and technology. RaceSci is dedicated to encouraging critical, anti-racist and interdisciplinary approaches to our understanding of the production and uses of "race" as a concept within the history of science. Instead of assuming race as a natural category that science then uncovers, this site assembles scholarly works that look at how cultural processes of racialization have profoundly shaped knowledge about humanness, health, and even our understanding of "nature" itself.

Annotation:

RaceSci is a site dedicated to supporting and expanding the discussion of race and science. The site provides five bibliographies of books and articles about race and science. The section on current scholarship has 1,000 entries, organized into 38 subjects. A bibliography of primary source material includes 91 books published between the 1850s and the 1990s. Visitors can currently view 14 syllabi for high school and college courses in social studies, history of science, rhetoric, and medicine. The site links to 13 recently published articles about race and science and to 49 sites about race, gender, health, science, and ethnicity. This site will be useful for teachers designing curricula about race and for researchers looking for secondary source material.

Historic Asylums of 19th Century America

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.

Medicine/Behavioral Science

URL:

http://www.historicasylums.com/

Author:

Historic Asylums of America

Excerpt:

America's Vanishing Historic Asylums, State Hospitals, Sanitariums, County Homes, Medical Hospitals, and Other Institutions.

Annotation:

Directory of asylums of various types from across the United States. Brief accounts of the buildings with accompanying photographs and paintings are listed by state. Links to other preservation-related sites, including action organizations are available.

Words & Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.

URL:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html

Author:

Janice E. Ruth, Manuscript Division Project Director, Library of Congress

Excerpt:

In honor of the Manuscript Division's centennial, its staff has selected for online display approximately ninety representative documents spanning from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Included are the papers of presidents, cabinet ministers, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, military officers and diplomats, reformers and political activists, artists and writers, scientists and inventors, and other prominent Americans whose lives reflect our country's evolution. Most of the selected items fall within one of eight major themes or categories which reflect the division's strengths. Each of these themes is the focus of a separate essay containing links to digital reproductions of selected documents. A detailed description accompanies each document, and additional information about the parent collections may be obtained by following links to catalog records and finding aids.

Annotation:

A Library of Congress Manuscript Division online exhibit to celebrate the Manuscript Division's centenary, this site contains approximately 90 representative documents from the 15th to the mid-20th century. The selected documents include the papers of presidents, cabinet ministers, congressmen, Supereme Court justices, military officers, diplomats, reformers, artists, writers, scientists, and other Americans who made a mark in history. Most items fall with eight categories that reflect the division's strengths: "The Presidency"; "Congress, Law, and Politics"; "Military Affairs"; "Diplomacy and Foreign Policy"; "Arts and Literature"; "Science, Medicine, Exploration, and Invention"; "African-American History and Culture"; "Women's History"; and "Miscellany." Each theme contains a roughly 250-word essay with links to digital reproductions of selected documents. A detailed description (200 words) accompanies each document, and additional information about the collections from which a document came is available through links to the collection records and finding aids. The exhibit also includes roughly 25 images, primarily in the "Science, Medicine, Exploration and Invention" category. There is a special presentation entitled "Collecting, Preserving, and Researching History: A Peek into the Library of Congress Manuscript Division." This site provides a description of the division, its holdings, definitions of terms like "personal papers" and why they are important, how the Library of Congress acquires manuscripts, how the staff prepares, conserves, and stores them, and who uses the documents. The site also has links to the Library of Congress's ordering and reproduction policies, the American Memory site, and to the Library of Congress collection catalogs. This easily navigable site is keyword and subject searchable. This site is ideal for conducting research in many areas of American History, as well as answering the question: "What do archives do?"

19th Century Scientific American Online

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.

URL:

http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American/index.html

Author:

Electronic Historical Publications

Excerpt:

This month's inventor may look like a 19th century pirate. But you cannot judge this book by its cover. His invention was first, but Congress decided his invention was too important to be monopolized by a single man. One of our previous inventors, patented his invention a year after this month's inventor and his marketing skills beat out our mystery man

Annotation:

Snippets from the first two volumes of Scientific American magazine. Very little information available and what is is of a frivolous nature. Not for research. Site has not been updates since 1997.

Clara Barton Biography

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.

URL:

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/barton_c.htm

Author:

Gale Publishing

Excerpt:

Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest child of Stephen Barton, a farmer and state legislator who had served in the Revolution under General Anthony Wayne; she later recalled that his tales made war early familiar to her

Annotation:

A short biography of Clara Barton with recommendations for further reading. Part of a larger site related to women's history.

Clara Barton (1821-1912)

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.

Medicine/Behavioral Science

URL:

http://www.redcross.org/museum/history/claraBarton.asp

Author:

American Red Cross

Excerpt:

Clarissa Harlowe Barton-Clara, as she wished to be called-is one of the most honored women in American history for being a true pioneer as well as an outstanding humanitarian. As pioneer, she began teaching school at a time when most teachers were men. She was among the first women to gain employment in the federal government. As a pioneer and humanitarian, she risked her life when she was nearly 40 years old to bring supplies and support to soldiers in the field during the Civil War. Then, at age 60, she founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and led it for the next 23 years.

Annotation:

Site provides an introduction to Clara Barton's life and work, as well as a bibliography for further study.

Time 100: The Most Important People of the 20th Century

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.

URL:

http://www.time.com/time/time100/

Author:

Time Magazine

Excerpt:

One century, 100 remarkable people. TIME has profiled those individuals who - for better or worse - most influenced the last 100 years. They are considered in five fields of endeavor, culminating with Person of the Century: Albert Einstein.

Annotation:

Time proposes the following to be the most important figures in science and thinking during the twentieth century: Leo Baekeland; Tim Berners-Lee; Rachel Carson; Francis Crick; James Watson; Albert Einstein; Philo Farnsworth; Enrico Fermi; Alexander Fleming; Sigmund Freud; Robert Goddard; Kurt Gödel; Edwin Hubble; John Maynard Keynes; Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey; Jean Piaget; Jonas Salk; William Shockley; Alan Turing; Ludwig Wittgenstein; and Wilbur and Orville Wright. They additionally identify twenty individuals as the twentieth century's most important Leaders and Revolutionaries; Artists and Entertainers; Builders and Titans; and Heroes and Icons. Each entry contains a biography and assessment of the individual's accomplishments, as well as links to related stories from Time's archives.

Post-Traumatic Gazette

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:18.

URL:

http://www.patiencepress.com

Author:

Patience Mason, Patience Press

Excerpt:

My husband's (Robert Mason) Vietnam memoirs, Chickenhawk and Chickenhawk: Back In The World and my book, Recovering from the War, describe how we lived with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder when it didn't have a name and wasn't supposed to exist. When Bob came back from his tour as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam (1st Cav, ‘65-’66), problems developed. We lived with PTSD for 14 years during which I felt there was something wrong with me because I couldn't make him happy. He thought he was crazy. We did not associate any of it with Vietnam.

Annotation:

This site acts as a newsletter providing a healing perspective for all trauma survivors, their families, friends and therapists. Author's husband was a Vietnam veteran. Besides the newletter itself, there is not a lot of information on the site yet, though more is coming. This site could serve as a resource for those interested in personal accounts and information concerning the changing perception and treatment of veterans and trauma survivors.

Victorian Science: On Overview

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:18.

URL:

http://65.107.211.206/science/sciov.html

Author:

George P. Landow

Annotation:

Information and links regarding the science of the Victorian Age

Chronology of Scientific Developments

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:18.

URL:

http://www.txdirect.net/users/rrichard/science.htm

Author:

Richard R. Orsinger

Excerpt:

1514 Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus publishes ____, suggesting that the earth moves around the sun.

Annotation:

A short listing of major events in the history of science. Very limited with incomplete data for several entries. Text only and no links.