Introducing STM The Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Introducing STM The Taiwanese Journal for
Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine

• Wen-Ji Wang
• Associate Editor of STM
• Dept. of History, National Taipei University

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A Brief History of STM

• The Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy and History
  of Science
• Started in 1993 and ran for 10 issues
• An English journal published by Yuan-liu (??)
  Publishing House
• Fu, Daiwie ??? was for sometime the
  editor-in-chief

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A Brief History of STM

• In 1999 The Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy and
  History of Science was split in two journals
  (philosophy and STS).
• The Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science,
  Technology and Medicine (or the STM,???????? )was
  founded in 2001.

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A Brief History of STM

• STM A bilingual journal for the
  interdisciplinary studies of science, technology
  and medicine from the Taiwanese or the East-Asian
  perspective
• Published twice a year (April and October) by the
  National Science and Technology Museum (?????????)

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A Brief History of STM

• Special interests
• how the Taiwanese and Chinese understand and
  control Nature
• how they build their scientific, technological
  and medical systems

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A Brief History of STM

• how Western systems of knowledge and practice
  have been transferred to Taiwan and China, and
  vice versa
• and how the Taiwanese and Chinese deal with
  STM-related issues in their culturally and
  historically specific contexts
• Yet related articles on other countries are also
  welcome

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A Brief History of STM

• The former editors
• Chu, Pingyi (???) March 2001
• history of science and medicine
• Wu, Chyuan-yuan (???) March 2002
• sociology of technology
• Lin, Chung-hsi (???) September 2005
• technology studies

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A Content Analysis of the former issues

• So far, 3 issues
• Number of articles 11 (2 in English)
• Technology studies 4
• History of medicine 3
• History of science 1
• Science and Gender 1
• Technological policy 1
• Historiography 1

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Table of contentsIssue 1

• Silent Technology Self-Assembled Trailers in
  the Tainan Basin
• Knowledge Mobilization in the Land Reclamation
  Project at Mai-Liao Sixth Naphtha Cracker
  Project
• Leibnizs Legacy in the Physics of the
  Enlightenment
• Pulsology and Officialdom (??) during the Zhou
  and Qin Dynasties

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Table of contentsIssue 2

• The Invisible Technique The Socio-Technical
  History of Cultivating Wax Apples
• The Social and Economic Origins of Technological
  Catch-up A Case Study of the Taiwanese Computer
  Industry in the Late 1980s
• Wujin Medicine Remembered Memory, Identity and
  Social Networks in Chinese Medicine, 1800-2000

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Table of contentsIssue 3

• Deliberative Democracy, Technological Policy and
  Public Discussion
• Gender Politics of Technology Theory and
  Research
• From Opium Gentleman to Experimental Sample
  Opium Users and Modern Medicine in Taiwan
• Foucault, Ginzburg and Writing the History of
  the Excluded

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The current editors from July 2006 onwards

• Editor-in-chief
• Chen, Ruey-Lin ??? (philosophy of science)
• Associate Editor
• Wang, Wen-Ji ??? (history of science and
  medicine)

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The editorial board

• Fu, Daiwie ??? (history of science and medicine,
  gender)
• Chu, Pingyi ??? (history of science and medicine)
• Chen, Hsin-Hsing ??? (STS, social movement)
• Huang, Jun-Fu ???(museology, science education)
• Chou, Kuei-Tien ???(risk society, technology and
  democracy)
• Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin ??? (history of medicine)
• Wu, Chia-Ling ??? (medical sociology, gender
  studies )
• Lin, Yi-Ping ??? (medical anthropology, public
  health, risk)

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The constitution of the current editorial board

• Historians and sociologists outnumber the others
• In addition, we have scholars from the fields of
  philosophy of science, science education, social
  studies of risk, and public health
• Nevertheless, the constitution doesnt exactly
  represent the complicated and dynamic structure
  of the STS community in Taiwan

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STM in the near future

• Issue 4 general articles (April 2007)
• Issue 5 Technology and Risk (October 2007)
• Issue 6 Energy and Society (April 2008)
• Issue 7 Exhibiting Technologies (October 2008)

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Submission and Subscription

• For submission and subscription, please contact
  Wen-Ji Wang,
• wjwang_at_mail.ntpu.edu.tw
• Or visit the website of
• the Taiwanese STS Virtual Community
• ??STS????
• http//sts.nthu.edu.tw/