Benoît Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.
Models abound in science, technology, and society (STS) studies and in science …

Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for
decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease …

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing
radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and …

This paper analyzes the development of a scientific bandwagon in cancer research using a
social worlds perspective and qualitative methods. It shows that a “standardized” package of …

Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy.
Most practitioners then viewed the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients with heroic …

This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine,
both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The …

Research councils began as channels for state patronage of science (a widespread
phenomenon after World War II) and were captured by the scientists: peer review of …

these. In this book, we appropriate their conception of research-technology, and ex tend it to
many other phenomena which are less stable and less localized in time and space than the …

The relationship between medicine and the study of life is as old as medicine itself.
Nevertheless, historians have highlighted the great transformation that took place in the …

A good deal of strategic choice has been given back to organizations, which have become
actors of their (only partial) compliance with institutional demands that they in turn contribute …