History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Scholars in this field study the history of both the natural and human sciences, as well as the history of medical and technological practices around the world. The rise of modern science has been integral to transformations in economic development and our natural environment, the formation and dissolution of states and empires, and our shifting sense of what it means to be a person of a particular race, class, sex, and culture. At Northwestern, historians study these processes of knowledge-production within and across disciplines, time periods, and national cultures around the globe. Doing so requires collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines, so we often work in the interdisciplinary field of "science studies" alongside sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and scholars of art and literature through Northwestern's Science in Human Culture Program
