Medical History and Bioethics
| Office: | Social Science Building Room 7133 Madison, WI 53706-1390 |
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| Email: | thbroman@wisc.edu |
Thomas H. Broman
Biography
Education
1987 Ph.D., History, Princeton University1983 M.A., History, Princeton University
1980 M.S., Agronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1976 A.B., Biology and Chemistry, Ripon College
Professional Experience
2008-present Chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of History of Science2000-present University of Wisconsin-Madison, Director, Program in Science and Technology Studies
1996-present University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of History of Science, associate professor
1988-1996 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of History of Science, assistant professor
1987-1988 Michigan State University, Lyman Briggs School, assistant professor1993 Princeton University, Dept. of History, visiting assistant professor
Courses Taught
212: The Physician in History280: Honors Seminar: Topic - Diseases in History
284: The Physician in History (Honors)
324: Science in the Enlightenment
907: Seminar: Theory & Practice: Science, Technology and Medicine
921: Seminar: European Travel 1500-1850
921: Seminar: Experts: Germany 1750-1970 (Fall 2001)
Honors and Awards
University of Wisconsin Vilas Associate Award (1999–2001)NSF Scholar’s Award (July 1999 – June 2002)
Fellowships and Grants
American Philosophical Society Research Grant (Summer, 1995)NIH National Library of Medicine Extramural Research Grant (Summer 1992, 1993)
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in History and Philosophy of Science (July 1989 - June 1990)
NEH Summer Stipend (Summer 1988)
Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Science and Civil Society With Lynn Nyhart, University of Chicago Press, 2002
The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750–1820 Cambridge University Press, 1996
Articles Published in the Last 10 Years
“Introduction: On Science and Civil Society.” In Science and Civil Society (forthcoming).“Zwischen Staat und Konsumgesellschaft: Aufklärung und die Entwicklung des deutschen Medizinalwesens im 18. Jahrhundert.” (forthcoming in Wolfenbütteler Forschungen zur Aufklärung).
“Science, Christianity, and the Enlightenment.” In David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds), Christianity and Science: Twelve Case Histories. (To be published by Univ. of Chicago Press)
“The Medical Sciences.” In David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science. Vol. 4, “The Eighteenth Century”, ed. Roy Porter. (In press with Cambridge Univ. Pr.)
“On the Epistemology of Criticism. Science, Criticism and the German Public Sphere, 1760–1800.” In Jörg Schönert (ed), Literaturwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsforschung (Tübingen: J. B. Metzler, 2000), pp. 6–26.
“Periodical Literature.” In Nicholas Jardine and Marina Frasca-Spada (eds), Books and Sciences in History. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), pp. 225–238.
“The Enlightenment.” In Gary B. Ferngren (ed), The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia (New York: garland Press, 2000), pp. 161–168.
“Bildung und praktische Erfahrung: Konkurrierende Darstellungen des medizinischen Berufes und der Ausbildung an der frühen Berliner Universität.” In Volker Hess and Eric Engstrom (eds.) “Zwischen Wissens- und Verwaltungsökonomie. Zur Geschichte des Berliner Charité-Krankenhauses im 19. Jahrhundert.” Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte 2000, 3:19-35.
“The Habermasian Public Sphere and ‘Science in the Enlightenment’.” History of Science 1998, 36:123–49.
Current Research Projects/Interests
Science in the Enlightenment; early modern medicine