Selection of papers presented at monthly meetings of the Section for History, Philosophy, and Ethical Issues of Science and Technology of the New York Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1981.
Includes bibliographies.
Medical care in the countryside near Paris, 1800-1914 / by Evelyn Ackerman -- The developing technology of apparatus in psychology's early laboratories / by Fairfid M. Caudle -- Mathematical probability and the reasonable man of the eighteenth century / by Lorraine J. Daston -- Non-Euclidean geometry and Weierstrassian mathematics / by Thomas Hawkins -- Bell Laboratories / by Deirdre LaPorte -- Contextualism and the character of developmental psychology in the 1970s / by Richard M. Lerner, David F. Hultsch, and Roger A. Dixon -- Lebesgue's measure problem and Zermelo's axiom of choice / by Gregory H. Moore -- Reflections on Italian medical writings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / by Nancy G. Siraisi