Historiography
Objectives
To understand the object of enquiry in History of Science, Technology and Medicina;
To understand the object of enquiry in Historiography of Science;
To analyze trends in historiography of science;
To understand tools and methods of historical approaches;
To better understand the relationship between the history of science and other fields of knowledge;
To understand current debates in the history of science.
General characterization
Code
9921
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Maria Luísa de Castro Coelho de Oliveira e Sousa
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
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Bibliography
-Doel, Roald E., Thomas Soderqvist, The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science (Routledge, 2006).
-Golinski, Jan, Making Natural Knowledge. Constructivism and the History of Science. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998).
-Iggers, Georg G., Historiography in the Twentieth Century. From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge, with a New Epilogue, Middletwon, Weleyan University Press, 2005.
-Gavrolu,Kostas, O Passado das Ciências como História ,Porto: Porto Editora, 2007.
-StaudenMaier, John, Technology’s Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric, Cambridge (mass.), MIT Press, 1989.
Teaching method
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Evaluation method
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Subject matter
The following thematic areas will be addressed:
1. What is historiography; specificities of the historiography of science and technology.
2. The history of the history of science;
3. The current organization of the discipline in Portugal and abroad;
4. The great historiographical debates;
5. Sociological approaches in history of science;
6. History of science in the context of cultural history;
7. History of science and the history of the book and of visual representations;
8. History of science and gender studies;
9. The revival of grand narrative and biographies;
10. History of science and popularization. The centre-periphery dichotomy;
11. The research and writing in History of science; methodological tools and practical exercises.
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