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the harvard undergraduate
history of science journal
Framing Madness: Robert Jones’s Moral Medicine and the Postpartum Mind
By Eunice Chon Note from the author: This close reading exercise was for HISTSCI 1770: Broken Brains: A Patient-Centered History, taught...
Harvard Synthesis
Sep 22
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Nineteenth-Century Islamic First Causal Reasoning with Darwin
Abstract In the late nineteenth century, Islamic intellectuals began engaging with Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. The three prominent...
Nils Peterson
Apr 19, 2021
Ignaz Semmelweis
In a world filled with germs and diseases, the simple act of handwashing can make a huge impact in preventing infection. Washing hands,...
Alexander Uy
Apr 12, 2021
Analysis of Maria Sibylla Merian’s "Preface to the Reader"
Who is Maria Sibylla Merian? Today, she is recognized as a skilled natural historian and an eminent early figure in the field of...
Haesung Jee
Mar 26, 2021
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