Jane Maienschein
- Human Dimensions of Biology |
- Center for Biology and Society |
- Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology Interdisciplinary Grad Program |
- Maienschein Lab Page |
- Embryo Project |
- Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy |
- Journal of the History of Biology, former editor |
- Marine Biological Laboratory-Dibner Institute of History of Science and Technology History of Biology Seminars, Co-organizer |
- History of Science Society, President
History and Philosophy of Science
Dr. Maienschein specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way that biology, bioethics, and biopolicy play out in society. Focusing on research in embryology, genetics, and cytology, Dr Maienschein combines detailed analysis of the epistemological standards, theories, laboratory practices and experimental approaches with study of the people, institutions, and changing social, political, and legal context in which science thrives. She loves teaching and is committed to public education about biology and its human dimensions. Jane Maienschein has received numerous faculty and teaching awards, including the 2000 Parents Association Professor of the Year Chair and a Regents’ Professorship in 2002.
Selected Publications
Books:
Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells, Harvard University Press, 2003. (Recipient of IPPY Finalist Award for Independent Publisher Books, 2004); paperback 2005.
Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880-1915. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
100 Years Exploring Life, 1888-1988: The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1989.
Selected Edited Books:
Form and Function in Developmental Evolution with Manfred Laubichler, Cambridge University Press, 2009
From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution With Manfred Laubichler, MIT Press: Dibner Institute series, forthcoming 2006
The Department of Embryology. Volume V of Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. With Marie Glitz and Garland Allen, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Biology and Epistemology. With Richard Creath Cambridge University Press, 2000
Biology and the Foundations of Ethics. With Michael Ruse, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Crossing the Borderlands: Biology at Chicago. With Gregg Mitman and Adele E. Clarke, special issue of Perspectives on Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)
The Expansion of American Biology. With Keith Benson and Ronald Rainger, Rutgers University Press, 1991
The American Development of Biology. With Ronald Rainger and Keith Benson, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988; republished in paperback Rutgers University Press, 1991
Defining Biology. Lectures From the 1890s, Harvard University Press, 1986