Race in the Histories of Science and Medicine: A Review Essay and a Research Agenda

SES 00-01402-Evelynn M.Hammonds(麻省理工学院)--《科学史和医学史中的种族：一篇综述论文和一项研究议程》“这笔赠款提供夏季资助，使首席研究人员能够完成一篇关于1800年至今美国科学史和医学史中种族概念的史学论文。本文将分为三个部分。第一部分将考察生物学和人类学历史中的种族史学。文章的第二部分将考察医学史中的种族史学。文章的最后一部分将提出一些问题，这些问题在现有的这些领域的二手文献中没有涉及种族概念的历史。这篇文章将在形式上类似于丹尼尔·凯尔斯，《美国和英国的遗传学，1890-1930：与推测的回顾》，ISIS，1980，71(NO.258)：441-455。本文回顾了美国和英国关于遗传学历史的文献，总结了现有的学术研究，指出了历史解释的局限性，并提出了未来工作中需要解决的重要问题。论文将提交给ISIS和《医学史公报》。这两家期刊的编辑都表示有兴趣就这一主题发表一篇文章。

SES 00-01402 - Evelynn M. Hammonds (MIT) -- "Race" in the Histories of Science and Medicine: A Review Essay and a Research Agenda" This grant provides summer support that will allow the Principal Investigator to complete an essay on the historiography of the concept of race in the histories of science and medicine in the United States from 1800 to the present. The essay will be in three parts. The first part will examine the historiography of race in the histories of biology and anthropology. The second part of the essay will examine the historiography of race in the history of medicine. The final section of the essay will raise questions that have not been addressed about the history of the race concept in the existing secondary literature in these fields. This essay will be similar in form to Daniel Kevles, "Genetics in the United States and Great Britain, 1890-1930: A Review With Speculations," Isis, 1980, 71 (No.258):441-455. In this essay Kevles reviewed the literature on the history of genetics in the US and Great Britain, summarized the existing scholarship, pointed out the limitations in historical interpretation and raised the important questions that needed to be addressed in future work.The essay will be submitted for publication to Isis and to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. The editors of both these journals have expressed interest in publishing an essay on this topic.