Current CoursesFall 2009 (current)
- History 277A
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History of Medicine; Environmental History; European Imperialism
Research Professor of History of Science and Environmental Studies
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Fax: 1-541-737-1257
Email: Mike.Osborne@oregonstate.edu
I write on health, bioethics, and biology. I also work on environmental history and imperialism. I am accepting new graduate students at Oregon State University's Graduate Program in History of Science at: http://oregonstate.edu/cla/history/
Research and Teaching Interests- I teach courses on the history of health, disease, and healing; the history of biology; and environment and culture.
Current Projects- The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
Forthcoming with University of Chicago Press
- The End of the Golden Age
This book under development charts the human encounter with alpine environments since the invention of modern photography.
- New Visions of Nature, Science, and Religion
With the geographer and enviornmental philosopher, James Proctor, of Portland's Lewis and Clark College, I am employing social scientific and humanistic methods to study nature and spirituality with the assistance of a John Templeton Foundation grant.
- California Institute of Regenerative Medicine
I currently teach an interdisciplinary bioethics course on human embryonic research issues to historians, humanists, and post-doctoral fellows in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (HIST/MCDB 247).
- Creativity in the Face of Climate Change: The Role of the Humanities in Awakening Societal Change
Click on the title above for a U-Tube version of this event hosted by U.C. Berkeley's Institue of the Environment.
Selected Publications- Raphael Blanchard, Parasitology, and the Positioning of Medical Entomology in Paris
Parassitologia (in press, projected 2009)
- "Eugenics in France and the Colonies" (co-authored with Richard S. Fogarty)
Alison Bashford, Philippa Levine, eds. Eugenics: A World History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Modernity (Oxford University Press, in press, projected 2009)
- "Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire"
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008)
- "Edouard-Marie Heckel"
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008)
- "Science and the French Empire"
Isis 96 (2005): 80-87
- "Views from the periphery: Discourses of Race and Place in French Military Sciences" (co-authored with Richard S. Fogarty)
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 25 (2003): 363-389
- “Acclimatizing the World: A History of the Paradigmatic Colonial Science”
Osiris 15 (2001): 601-617
- “The Geographical Imperative in Nineteenth Century French Medicine”
Medical History, supplement 20 (2000): 31-50
- "Nature, Technology, and the Human Condition" (co-authored with Catherine L. Newell)
Martin Drenthen, et alia. New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity (Springer, September 2009)
- Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism.
Indiana University Press, 1994
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