Ruth Schwartz Cowan
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Ruth Schwartz Cowan's Degrees
- PhD History University of Pennsylvania
- Masters History University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelors History University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth Schwartz Cowan is an American historian of science, technology and medicine noted for her research on the history of human and medical genetics, as well as on the history of household technologies. She is also the author of a widely used textbook on the social history of American technology.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan's Published Works
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Published Works
- More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1985) (1073)
- The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods and Cities (1981) (287)
- The "Industrial Revolution" in the home: household technology and social change in the 20th century. (1976) (221)
- The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Role, 1920-1970 (1973) (212)
- More Work for Mother (1983) (193)
- A social history of American technology (1997) (172)
- Heredity and Hope (2008) (120)
- Flowering Plants in Australia (1983) (82)
- Victorian Ladies at Work: Middle Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914 (1975) (67)
- Francis Galton's Statistical Ideas: The Influence of Eugenics (1972) (66)
- Symbiont Practices in Boundary Spanning: Bridging the Cognitive and Political Divides in Interdisciplinary Research (2017) (57)
- From Virginia Dare to Virginia Slims: Women and Technology in American Life (1979) (48)
- Prostate cancer screening in men with a family history of prostate cancer: the role of partners in influencing men's screening uptake. (2007) (43)
- Moving up the slippery slope: Mandated genetic screening on Cyprus (2009) (39)
- Francis Galton's contribution to genetics (1972) (34)
- Two washes in the morning and a bridge party at night: The American housewife between the wars (1976) (32)
- Disassembling Gender in the Electronics Age (1987) (31)
- Accuracy and completeness in reporting family history of prostate cancer by unaffected men. (2004) (26)
- Women's work, housework, and history: the historical roots of inequality in work-force participation (1987) (25)
- Looking Back in Order to Move Forward: John McDermott, "Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals" (2010) (23)
- Nature and nurture: the interplay of biology and politics in the work of Francis Galton. (1977) (19)
- How We Get Our Daily Bread, Or The History Of Domestic Technology Revealed (1998) (17)
- A guide to Francis Galton's `English men of science' (1977) (14)
- Aspects of the history of prenatal diagnosis. (1993) (13)
- Ultraviolet light and vitamin D in nutrition (13)
- Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 (1983) (13)
- The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home (2018) (13)
- The beliefs, and reported and intended behaviors of unaffected men in response to their family history of prostate cancer (2008) (11)
- Technology Is to Science as Female Is to Male: Musings on the History and Character of Our Discipline (1996) (11)
- The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation, 1619-1930. (1992) (10)
- Genetic services for men: The preferences of men with a family history of prostate cancer (2006) (10)
- The Eugenics Movement (1977) (7)
- Our parents' lives : the Americanization of Eastern European Jews (1990) (6)
- The Timetables of Science. A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Alexander Hellemans , Bryan Bunch (1992) (6)
- Interdisciplinarity in Practice: A Case of a Nanotechnology Research Center (2012) (6)
- Women and Science: Contested Terrain (1995) (5)
- Descartes's Legacy: A Theme Issue on Biomedical and Behavioral Technology (1993) (5)
- Chapter 3: Clean Homes and Large Utility Bills 1900-1940 (1985) (4)
- Belly dance and its links to body psychotherapy (2016) (4)
- Women and Work: Positive Action for Change@@@More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Hearth to the Microwave (1991) (3)
- Commentary: Before Weismann and germplasm there was Galton and eugenics: the biological and political meaning of the inheritance of acquired characteristics in the late 19th century. (2016) (2)
- Condis, coolth and culpability (1992) (2)
- Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews. (1990) (2)
- Medical Genetics Is Not Eugenics. (2008) (2)
- Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process. Edited by John Ziman. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 379 pp. Index, bibliography, notes, figures, photos. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-62361-8 (2003) (2)
- This is the history people often care about most (2003) (1)
- Commentaries on 'Science, Industry and Society in the Nineteenth Century' by J.D. Bernal, Centaurus, 1953, 3, pp. 138-165 (2008) (1)
- Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor Masterpiece Theater Production (1984) (1)
- Dolores Hayden. Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life. New York: W. W. Norton or George J. McLeod, Toronto. 1984. Pp. x, 270. $17.95 (1985) (1)
- Baby's First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects (review) (2003) (1)
- More Work for Historians (1983) (1)
- Book Review:Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History Arnold Pacey (1992) (1)
- Contents, Vol. 8, Supplement 1, 1993 (1993) (1)
- Book Review:Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology Autumn Stanley (1996) (1)
- Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States Alice Kessler-Harris (1985) (0)
- 7:00-8:30 p.m. Public Lecture —"Heredity and Hope: Intersections of Genetics and Faith in the Clinic" (2008) (0)
- 5. Genetic Screening and Genocidal Claims (2008) (0)
- A Whole World in an Apple Seed (2009) (0)
- His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology. Ed. by Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. ix, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1803-0. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-1802-2.) (2000) (0)
- Victorian Science and Religion. A Bibliography with Emphasis on Evolution, Belief, and Unbelief, Comprised of Works Published from c. 1900-1975.Sydney Eisen , Bernard V. Lightman (1986) (0)
- Book Review:Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind. James Turner (1982) (0)
- Commentary 01 on Bernal 1953 (2008) (0)
- Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. A Cultural History of Heredity. Miguel García-Sancho. Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to DNA, 1945–2000. (2013) (0)
- Right On-and On! (1976) (0)
- NIH workshop statement. (1993) (0)
- Book Review:Beyond Her Sphere: Women and the Professions in American History Barbara J. Harris (1980) (0)
- Rebirth of the Quiz Kids (1982) (0)
- Rima D. Apple.Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America. xii + 209 pp., illus., index. New Brunswick, N.J./London: Rutgers University Press, 2006. $22.95 (paper). (2009) (0)
- Book Review:"Send us a Lady Physician." Women Doctors in America, 1835-1920. Ruth J. Abram (1987) (0)
- The Huxleys. Ronald W. Clark (1969) (0)
- Book Review:Sir Humphry Davy's Published Works. June Z. Fullmer (1970) (0)
- 4. No Matter What, This Has to Stop! (2008) (0)
- Angela Willey. Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology. xiv + 195 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2016. $23.95 (paper). (2017) (0)
- Book Review:The Illustrated Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Richard E. Leakey (1980) (0)
- Book Review:Scientific Elite. Nobel Laureates in the United States. Harriet Zuckerman (1978) (0)
- HermaphroditicallyReflections on Gender and Science. Evelyn Fox Keller (1986) (0)
- Book Review:Francis Galton: The Life and Work of a Victorian Genius D. W. Forrest (1976) (0)
- Eugenics, genetic screening, and the slippery slope. (2005) (0)
- Book Review:The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology Langdon Winner (1987) (0)
- POSITIONED ON EDUCATION (1966) (0)
- 1. Many Varieties of Beautiful Inheritance (2008) (0)
- Book Review:Mikhail Vasil'Evich Lomonosov on the Corpuscular Theory. Henry M. Leicester (1972) (0)
- Introduction (1984) (0)
- Bioethics made too simple (1996) (0)
- philip j. pauly. Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology. (Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1987. Pp. 252. $24.95 (1990) (0)
- Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885–1945. By Angus McLaren. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. 228 pp. Paper, $15.95.) (1991) (0)
- Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (review) (2003) (0)
- Book Review:Women in Science: 100 Journeys Into the Territory. Vivian Gornick (1991) (0)
- Biology in public policy (2014) (0)
- International Approaches to the History of Technology and Women's Mobility [Co-sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology] (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Four Lives in Science. Women's Education in the Nineteenth Century. Lois Barber Arnold (1985) (0)
- The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth Century England.Neil McKendrick , John Brewer , J. H. Plumb (1985) (0)
- Religion and Genomics: "Sharing History, Sharing Healing" (2008) (0)
- Hermaphroditically (1986) (0)
- Eugenics and the Progressives.Donald K. Pickens (1969) (0)
- 3. Pronatal Motives and Prenatal Diagnosis (2008) (0)
- Development and Implementation of Procedures for Identifying Black and Limited English Proficient Gifted Students. (1992) (0)
- Religion and Genomics: "Heredity and Hope: Intersections of Genetics and Faith in the Clinic" (2008) (0)
- Response to McDermott: (2012) (0)
- Our genetic future? (1997) (0)
- 6. Parents, Politicians, Physicians, and Priests (2008) (0)
- Book Review:The Heritage of Copernicus: Theories "Pleasing to the Mind." Jerzy Neyman (1976) (0)
- Matthew Wisnioski.Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America. (Engineering Studies Series.) xvii + 286 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2012. $35 (cloth). (2015) (0)
- 2. Eugenics and the Genealogical Fallacy (2008) (0)
- Thanks to reviewers (2019) (0)
- Graeme Gooday, Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914 . London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. ix+292. ISBN 978-1-85196-975-3. £60.00 (hardback). (2010) (0)
- Book Review:Biology, Medicine, and Society, 1840-1940 Charles Webster (1983) (0)
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1974) (0)
- Courting Justice Film Series (2010) (0)
- Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil (review) (2021) (0)
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