The disciplines of the history of science, medicine, and technology are rethinking themselves in global terms. In order to widen the scope of both subject matter and scholarly discussion, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in collaboration with the History of Science Society, the American Association for the History of Medicine, the British Society for the History of Science, the Division of the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, the European Society for the History of Science and the Society for the History of Technology, proposes a pilot project: a two-volume, multi-language reader that will translate into Chinese ten influential historical articles or book chapters on science, technology, or medicine published in English during the last twenty-five years (since 1990) on any topic and epoch in our fields. The reader will be published by Edition Open Access, in conjunction with a renowned Asian academic publishing house, and will be made available both online and by print on demand. The companion volume will translate into English an analogous selection of articles in Chinese chosen by our colleagues in those countries, into English. If this trial project is successful, we hope to expand it to include other regions and languages.
We’d like to ask your help in choosing the articles to be translated from English into Chinese: what article would you recommend most heartily to colleagues, students, or anyone interested in our field? We’ve included a drop-down menu of some of the major journals in our field to suggest the range of possibilities, but the list makes no pretense of being exhaustive; please feel free to nominate articles published elsewhere (under the “Other” rubric, including book chapters).
Nominations of articles may be submitted until December 15, 2015, on a one-person, one-vote basis for each field. Each individual can actually make three nominations—one each for history of science, history of medicine, and history of technology. An editorial committee for the reader, with representatives from each of the sponsoring societies, will review the results and make the final selection.