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History
of Science & Medicine | Affiliated Faculty |
 Bettyann
Holtzmann Kevles
Lecturer of History
Professor Kevles recieved her BA from Vassar College
(1959) and MA from Columbia University (1961). Her
research interests are the history of primatology,
theories of female animal behavior, medical imaging,
women in space, and the impact of science on the
visual arts..
Select Publications
Books
- Almost Heaven, revised and updated
paperback edition, MIT Press, 2006.
- Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space
(Perseus Books, 2003).
- Picturing DNA: An Essay on Art, Science,
and the Human Genome, (with Marilyn Nissenson),
www.Genomicart.org.
- Gary Schneider, Genetic Self-portrait, A
Portrait Without the Camera Face at the Santa
Barbara Museum of Art (Musee de lysee, Lausanne,
Switzerland; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
Ontario; International Center of Photography;
(Syracuse, NY: Light Work, 1999).
 Naked
to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth
Century, Rutgers University Press, 1997; revised
paperback edition, Perseus, 1998- Females of the Species: Sex and Survival
in the Animal Kingdom, Harvard University
Press, 1986.
- Thinking Gorillas: Testing and Teaching the
Greatest Ape, Dutton, 1980.
- Listening In, Scholastic Book Services,
1981.
- (Contributor) Cassandra Rising: Science Fiction
by Women, Alice Lawrance, editor, Doubleday,
1978.
- Watching the Wild Apes: The Primate Studies
of Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas, Dutton,
1976.
Articles
- “Europe in Space,” Encyclopedia
of Europe, in press
- “Vein Man” in The Anatomy Lesson:
Concersations with Johannes de Ketham Artists
book by joyce Cutler-Shaw in response to the FASCICULUS
MEDICINAE of 1495, Robin Price, Publisher, Middletown,
Connecticut 2005
- “Diagnostica Medica Per Immagini”
Storia Della Scienza, Encicopedia Italiana,
Volume 8, La Seconda Rivoluzione Scientifica,
2005
- “The Physical Sciences and the Physician’s
Eye: Dissolving Disciplinary Boundaries,”
Cambridge History of the Physical Sciences,
Vol 3, 2002
- “Primatology” and “E.O. Wilson,”
in The Oxford Companion to the History of Science,
2003
- E.O. Wilson, in Oxford Companion to the History
of Science; Radiology, in Encarta Encyclopedia
(in press)
- The End of the Twentieth Century: The Physical
Sciences and the Physician's Eye: Dissolving Disciplinary
Boundaries, Cambridge History of the Physical
Sciences, Vol 3 in press).
- La Biologie des Boucs Émissaires, co-authored
with Daniel J. Kevles, La Recherche July/August
1998, pp. 58-63.
- Scapegoat Biology, with Daniel J. Kevles, Discover
October 1997, pp. 58-65.
- The Biology of Violence, (coauthored with Daniel
J. Kevles) Discover, September 1997
- The Fathers of Planetary Science, a series in
The Planetary Report from April/May, 1989
through 1993.
- Charles Darwin, Biography for the 15th edition
of the Encyclopedia Britannica 1989.
- Scientific View: weekly column in the Los
Angeles Times 1982-1987. Over a hundred columns
on topics including: animal behavior, astronomy,
women in science, gender studies, ethology, archeology.
- A Feminist in the Late 80's. Cover Story Profile
of Betty Friedan, The Los Angeles Times Magazine
April 17, 1987.
bettyann.kevles@yale.edu
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