Londa Schiebinger
Författare till Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
Om författaren
Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. She is the author of the award-winning Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004), among many other works.
Verk av Londa Schiebinger
Associerade verk
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Schiebinger, Londa
- Andra namn
- Schiebinger, Londa L. (fuller name)
- Födelsedag
- 1952-05-13
- Kön
- female
- Utbildning
- University of Nebraska (BA|English|1974)
Harvard University (MA|History|1977)
Harvard University (PhD|History|1984) - Yrken
- Professor of the History of Science
- Relationer
- Swan, Claudia (co-editor)
Proctor, Robert N. (husband) - Organisationer
- Stanford University (The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science)
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research (The Barbara D. Finberg Director)
Pennsylvania State University - Priser och utmärkelser
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (1999)
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- Verk
- 13
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 607
- Popularitet
- #41,417
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 6
- ISBN
- 36
- Språk
- 3
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging from the collision of peoples on newly established, often poorly supplied, plantations. But not all knowledge was equal. Highlighting the violence and fear endemic to colonial struggles, Schiebinger explores aspects of African medicine that were not put to the test, such as Obeah and vodou. This book analyzes how and why specific knowledges were blocked, discredited, or held secret.… (mer)