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History
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Toby A. Appel
Current Position:
John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, Cushing/Whitney
Medical Library, Yale University, and Research Affiliate,
Department of History of Medicine and Science.
Education:
Tufts University, B.S. (Mathematics) Princeton University,
Ph.D. 1976 (History of Science, Department of History)
University of Maryland, College of Library and Information
Services, M.L.S. 1994
Research in Progress:
Article: Alternative Medicine and the State: The Thomsonian
Campaign against Orthodox Medicine in Antebellum Connecticut
Selected Publications:
Books
Shaping Biology: The National Science Foundation
and American Biological Research, 1945-1975.
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology
in the Decades Before Darwin, Monographs in
the History and Philosophy of Biology. (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1987)
Articles
- Disease and Medicine in Connecticut around 1800,
in Voices of the New Republic: Connecticut
Towns, 1800-1832, 2 vols. (New Haven: Connecticut
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003), II: 95-104.
- Marine Biology/Biological Oceanography and the
Federal Patron: The NSF Initiative in Biological
Oceanography in the 1960s, in Oceanographic
History: The Pacific and Beyond. Papers from the
Vth International Congress on the History of Oceanography,
ed. Keith R. Benson and Philip F. Rehbock
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002),
pp. 332-342.
- L'anatomie philosophique, l'évolution et les
muséums: les relations entre le Muséum et Harvard,
in ,Le Muséum au premier siècle de son histoire,
ed. Claude Blanckaert et al. (Paris: Editions
du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 1997),
pp. 649-671.
- Physiology in American Women's Colleges: The
Rise and Decline of a Female Subculture, Isis,
85 (1994): 26-56; republished in History of
Women in the Sciences, An Isis Reader, ed.
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1999).
- A Scientific Career in the Age of Character:
Jeffries Wyman and Natural History at Harvard,
in Clark A. Elliott and Margaret W. Rossiter,
eds., Science at Harvard University: Historical
Perspectives (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University
Press, 1992), pp. 96-120.
- Jeffries Wyman, Philosophical Anatomy and the
Scientific Reception of Darwin in America, Journal
of the History of Biology 21 (1988): 69-94.
- Organizing Biology: The American Society of
Naturalists and its 'Affiliated Societies', 1883-1923,
in Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson, and Jane Maienschein,
eds., The American Development of Biology
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1988), pp. 87-120; paperback ed. (New Brunwsick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991).
- Biological and Medical Societies and the Founding
of the American Physiological Society, in Gerald
L. Geison, ed., Physiology in the American
Context, 1850-1940 (Bethesda, MD.: American
Physiological Society, 1987), pp. 155-176.
- Founding, First Quarter Century, 1887-1912,
Second Quarter Century, 1913-1937, and Third Quarter
Century, 1938-1962, in John R. Brobeck, Orr E.
Reynolds, and Toby A. Appel, eds., History
of the American Physiological Society: The First
Century, 1887-1987 (Bethesda, MD.: American
Physiological Society, 1987), pp. 11-121.
- Tody A. Appel, Marie M. Cassidy, and M. Elizabeth
Tidball, Women in Physiology, in Brobeck, Reynolds,
and Appel, eds., History of the American Physiological
Society, pp. 381-390.
toby.appel@yale.edu
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