Chemical sciences in the modern world / edited by Seymour H. Mauskopf.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1993], ©1993.

xxii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"Earlier versions of several of the essays in this volume were presented at a conference ... held May 17-20, 1990"--T.p. verso

Chemical sciences in the modern world / S.H. Mauskopf -- Philosophies of chemistry since the Eighteenth Century / M.J. Nye -- Uses and images of instruments in chemistry / Y.M. Rabkin -- Systems of production: drosophila, Neurospora, and biochemical genetics / R.E. Kohler -- The quiet revolution of the 1850s: social and empirical sources of scientific theory / A.J. Rocke -- Justus Liebig and the construction of organic chemistry / F.L. Holmes -- The evolution of the chemical industry: a technological perspective / J.K. Smith -- Chemistry and biomedicine in an industrial setting: the invention of the sulfa drugs / J.E. Lesch / Defining chemistry: origins of the heroic chemist / R. Friedel -- Documenting modern chemistry: the historical task of the archivist / H.W. Samuels

(cont.) Two useful tools for documentation strategies: historical and documentation research / J. Warnow-Blewett -- History of chemistry and the chemical community: bridging the gap? / W.B. Jensen -- The museum, meaning, and history: the case of chemistry / R. Bud -- Between knowledge and action: themes in the history of environmental chemistry / C. Hamlin -- The chemogastric revolution and the regulation of food chemicals / S. White -- The chemical industries and their publics: how can history help? / E.N. Brandt -- The prospect from here / E.N. Hiebert -- Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered / J.W. Servos -- Women in research schools: approaching an analytical lacuna in the history of chemistry and allied sciences / P.G. Abir-Am.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [393]-403) and index