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Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science

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Editors:
  1. Donald L. Opitz

    1. DePaul University, USA

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  2. Staffan Bergwik

    1. Stockholm University, Sweden

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  3. Brigitte Tiggelen

    1. Chemical Heritage Foundation, USA

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The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Domesticity and the Historiography of Science

    1. Introduction: Domesticity and the Historiography of Science

      • Donald L. Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, Brigitte Van Tiggelen
      Pages 1-15

  5. Familial Science: Sustaining Knowledge across Generations and Distances

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Merchants, Scientists, and Artists: Scientific Families and Scientific Practice in Nineteenth-Century Greece

      • Konstantinos Tampakis, George Vlahakis
      Pages 175-191

    3. Father, Son, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Otto Pettersson, Hans Pettersson, and the Early Twentieth-Century Inheritance of Oceanography

      • Staffan Bergwik
      Pages 192-214

    4. The Laboratory Society: Science and the Family in Sweden, c.1900–1950

      • Sven Widmalm
      Pages 215-240

    5. Research Cooperation, Learning Processes, and Trust among Plant Scientists: Fictive Kinship, Academic Mobility, and Scientists’ Careers

      • Helena Pettersson
      Pages 241-258

    6. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Family in the Knowledge Economy

      • Aalok Khandekar
      Pages 259-278

  6. Afterword

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. Afterword: Science and the Domestic Sphere in the Longue Durée

      • Alix Cooper
      Pages 281-287

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 288-299
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Reviews

“With Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science, Donald Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, and Brigitte Van Tiggelen provide an excellent and original contribution to the history of modern science. … It is composed of a general introduction, twelve chapters interspersed with good-quality illustrations, and an afterword. … It will be of interest for science and technology studies as well as anthropology, history, and social sciences.” (Pierre Teissier, ISIS, Vol. 108 (4),2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • DePaul University, USA

    Donald L. Opitz

  • Stockholm University, Sweden

    Staffan Bergwik

  • Chemical Heritage Foundation, USA

    Brigitte Tiggelen

About the editors

Donald L. Opitz is Associate Professor of the School for New Learning and Affiliated Scholar of History at DePaul University, USA.

Staffan Bergwik is Associate Professor of History of Science and Ideas and Senior Lecturer of Literature and History of Ideas at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Brigitte Van Tiggelen is Director of European Operations of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, USA, and a member of the Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science

  • Editors: Donald L. Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, Brigitte Tiggelen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492739

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49272-2Published: 19 October 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49273-9Published: 26 January 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 299

  • Topics: History of Science, Social History, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Modern History

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