Shirley Roe

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Shirley Roe grew up in the Los Angeles area and graduated from Pomona College in 1970. She received her A.M. (1971) and Ph.D. (1976) in History of Science from Harvard University, where she was Assistant Professor and Head Tutor, History and Science, from 1976 to 1982. She spent two years at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, England, on fellowships from NATO and the National Endowment for the Humanities, after which she returned to Harvard in a dual position of research (National Science Foundation) and administration (Special Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences). She joined the History department at the University of Connecticut in 1987 and has been Department Head since 2005. Shirley Roe teaches courses in History of Science and Science and Social Issues in the Modern World. Her current research project is on politics, censorship, and ideas of life and matter in mid-eighteenth-century France.

Matter, Life, and Generation

October 24, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3169113-matter-life-and-generation Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate by Shirley A. Roe In the…

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