Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Affiliated Research Scholars

Soraya de Chadarevian

Soraya de Chadarevian

Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Society and Genetics at the the University of California, Los Angeles

Research interests: History of biology and biomedicine

Selected publications

  • Models: The Third Dimension of Science, edited and introduced with Nick Hopwood, Stanford University Press, 2004.
  • Designs for Life. Molecular Biology after World War II, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Representations of the Double Helix (with Harmke Kamminga); revised and enlarged edition, Whipple Museum for the History of Science, 2002.
  • Molecularizing Biology and Medicine. New Practices and Alliances, 1910s-1970s, edited and introduced with Harmke Kamminga, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998.
  • 'Laboratory science versus country-house experiments. The controversy between Julius Sachs and Charles Darwin,' British Journal for the History of Science 29 (1996), 17-41.
  • 'Graphical method and discipline: self-recording instruments in nineteenth-century physiology,' Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 24 (1993) 267-291.
  • Zwischen den Diskursen. Maurice Merleau-Ponty und die Wissenschaften, Könighausen und Neumann, 1990.

Soraya de Chadarevian's page at UCLA