Cultural History and Modern Science
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jats:pThe term ‘cultural history of science’, as others have observed, is clumsy and imperfect. Cultural history is itself riddled with ambiguities which the addition of ‘science’ is unlikely to clarify. However, the term loosely describes a genre of historical writing which has become a staple of cross-disciplinary research: books which examine science's wider cultural ‘impacts’ and ‘contexts’. The heterogeneity of this field is so great, however, that an examination of methodology is called for.</jats:p>
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4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
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Historical Journal
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0018-246X
1469-5103
1469-5103
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Wolfson Postgraduate Award in the Humanities