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
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 (遠 流) Publishing House • Fu, Daiwie 傅大為 was for sometime the editor-in-chief
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，科 技‧醫療與社會 ）was founded in 2001.
A Brief History of STM
• STM: A bilingual journal for the interdisciplinary studies of science, technology and medicine from the Taiwanese or the EastAsian perspective • Published twice a year (April and October) by the National Science and Technology Museum (國立科學工藝博物館)
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
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
A Brief History of STM
• The former editors: Chu, Pingyi (祝平一) March 2001 history of science and medicine Wu, Chyuan-yuan (吳泉源) March 2002 sociology of technology Lin, Chung-hsi (林崇熙) September 2005 technology studies
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
Table of contents
Issue 1
• ‘Silent Technology: Self-Assembled Trailers in the Tainan Basin’ • ‘Knowledge Mobilization in the Land Reclamation Project at Mai-Liao Sixth Naphtha Cracker Project’ • ‘Leibniz’s Legacy in the Physics of the Enlightenment’ • ‘Pulsology and Officialdom (王官) during the Zhou and Qin Dynasties’
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Issue 2
• ‘The Invisible Technique: The SocioTechnical 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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Issue 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’
The current editors
from July 2006 onwards
• Editor-in-chief: Chen, Ruey-Lin 陳瑞麟 (philosophy of science) • Associate Editor: Wang, Wen-Ji 王文基 (history of science and medicine)
The editorial board
• • • • • Fu, Daiwie 傅大為 (history of science and medicine, gender) Chu, Pingyi 祝平一 (history of science and medicine) Chen, Hsin-Hsing 陳信行 (STS, social movement) Huang, Jun-Fu 黃俊夫(museology, science education) Chou, Kuei-Tien 周桂田(risk society, technology and democracy) • Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin 雷祥麟 (history of medicine) • Wu, Chia-Ling 吳嘉苓 (medical sociology, gender studies ) • Lin, Yi-Ping 林宜平 (medical anthropology, public health, risk)
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 doesn’t exactly represent the complicated and dynamic structure of the STS community in Taiwan
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)
Submission and Subscription
• For submission and subscription, please contact Wen-Ji Wang, wjwang@mail.ntpu.edu.tw Or visit the website of the Taiwanese STS Virtual Community 台灣STS虛擬社群 http://sts.nthu.edu.tw/