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This talk will tell the story of laboratory pregnancy testing in Britain before the first DIY tests of the 1970s. ... Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience

13 Jul 2024: 2020 – 'What is Unavailable Evidence?', presentation at the virtual conference 'Lakatos' Undone Work', London School of Economics. ... HPS Part II Paper 4: Philosophy of Economics. Prior Education . 2020 – London School of Economics: M.Sc.

13 Jul 2024: As sericulture gained popularity, various political, economic, and scientific interests converged as experts, bureaucrats, and industry leaders confronted a need to organize a multiplying number of cocoon-spinners strains. ... This has also involved

5 Apr 2021: ELKAN, E.R. (1938). The Xenopus pregnancy test. Br. Med. J. 2: 1253-1256. ... Africa 22: pt. 2, xvii-xviii. HOGBEN, L. (1939). Xenopus test for pregnancy.

13 Jul 2024: varying degrees by inductive inferences, and medical research is developed in a complex political and economic nexus.

13 Jul 2024: Talks. 2022–2023. 'Distributive epistemic justice and climate economics in the IPCC', invited (forthcoming) talk at the RIVET Project Workshop, Lund University . ... A policy-neutral allocation of emissions? The scientist as policy maker in the

13 Jul 2024: Neil and Winship (2019) correctly point out that the use of such tests is threatened by the phenomenon of Simpson's paradox. ... Simpson's paradox reveals that the statistics employed in benchmark tests will not, in general, be invariant to updating on

13 Jul 2024: Demographers debate the contribution of economic prosperity, female education, employment and other factors that may influence people's decisions about having children. ... population and the tensions caused by regional fertility differences on the EU's

13 Jul 2024: McClurg, 1903). In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois published a remarkable book that furthered nearly a decade of research and advocacy in history, economics and sociology but that in intent ... It will raise questions about activism and academic work, the relations

13 Jul 2024: Inventing Temperature', Lakatos Award Lecture, at the London School of Economics, 18 April 2007.

Answers to question 3 were very varied, covering alchemy and the economics ofchemistry, as well as the location and roles of naturalists, natural philosophers and their patrons. ... In question 8 (19 answers) many candidates conflated the two important

24 Jul 2023: 8. Are there any important ethical differences between genetic tests and other medical tests? ... 5. Keynesianism is different from Keynes’s economics. Explain how and why.

13 Jul 2024: It will show that over time child malnutrition and the solutions proposed became increasingly localised; that is, greater attention was paid to the socio-economic and cultural context of pre-school ... In this paper, I examine relations and disjunctions

13 Jul 2024: The Issue of Duplicates: Political, Economic and Epistemic Figurations of Object Collections.

13 Jul 2024: Sarah Wilmot is a Senior Research Fellow at HPS, Cambridge. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, she is researching the history of artificial insemination in cattle in Britain from ... Sarah Franklin is Professor of Social Studies of

13 Jul 2024: Animals in the diagnostic laboratory: the rise and fall of living pregnancy tests in Britain and beyond, 1929–1964. ... Do cyborgs dream of customer fulfilment? Logistics and economics at RAND, 1946–1960.

13 Jul 2024: edge methods of digital analysis to data from the SIMON instrument-makers dataset to interogate questions relating to the origin, development, and social and economic context of the British instrument trade.

13 Jul 2024: And it documents attempts to mobilize its member-states to either economic assistance or environmental protection schemes. ... 21 February. Steve Sturdy (University of Edinburgh). Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980–2000.

24 Jul 2023: economics? 9. “The simplest explanation is the best explanation when accounting for. ... 7. Is intertheoretic reduction possible and desirable? 8. “The best way to confirm a theory is to test it experimentally.” Discuss.

13 Jul 2024: I will argue that recent work claiming to identify change in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century notions of generation, and to tie this to very specific social and economic changes, overlooks the