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16 results for "History of the Senses"

16 results for "History of the Senses"

Juanita (Juanis) Becerra Sandoval

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Research Interests: History of computing; history of technology; history of the body; history of the senses, science & technology studies.

Juanis is a Ph.D. candidate whose work examines histories of artificial intelligence, subjectivity, and the senses...

MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

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Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs Joyce Chaplin Professor of Early American History Harvard University With support from the Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Chaplin is compiling a database of manuscript notes...

Sandip Bhatt

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Research Interests: Performance validation/error assessment practices for automated and semi-automated inference systems where ‘gold standard’ truth data is difficult or impossible to obtain, the ways in which these practices have (and have not) evolved...

Histories of Scientific Observation
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Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate...

Jean-François Gauvin

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Dr. Jean-François Gauvin has been working in academia and museums in Canada and the United States for the past 18 years. As an administrative director, museum curator, PhD student, and now professor he has used his professional, teaching and research...

The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
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People suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst. Stress is the great killer of modern life. Ancient Eastern mind-body techniques can bring us balance and healing...

Secondary Field

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The History of Science Department offers a secondary field in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. This field gives students concentrating in other departments an opportunity to take a coherent cluster of courses in the history of science...

Internships in Museum Studies

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Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI) is one of the three largest university collections in the world for teaching and research in the history of science and technology. Through CHSI's museum, the History and Science...

Katharine Park

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Katharine Park’s research and teaching focuses on the history of science and medicine in medieval and early modern Europe, with special attention to gender, sexuality, and the history of the body. Her work stresses the interconnection of knowledge and...