[Recommended readings for CMNS 858. Bold faced titles are of most interest]

 

Adler, H. M., and Hammett, V. B. O. (1973). "The Doctor-Patient Relationship Revisited: An Analysis of the Placebo Effect." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 78.

Amin, Samir (1989). Eurocentrism. Trans. R. Moore. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Avina, Robert and Schneiderman, Lawrence (1978). "Why Patients Choose Homeopathy." Western Journal of Medicine, vol. 128, no. 4.

Benjamin, Walter (1978). Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century.In Reflections, trans. E. Jephcott. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Bijker, Wiebe, Hughes, Thomas and Pinch, Trevor (1990). The Social Construction of Technological Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bijker, Wiebe and Law, John (1992). Shaping Technology/Building Society. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

Borges, Jorge Luis (1964). "The Theologians," in Labyrinths, Yates and Irby, eds. New York: New Directions.

Borgman, Albert. Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Brody, Howard (1980). Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Buchanan, Denton (1975). "Group Therapy for Kidney Transplant Patients." International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, vol. 6., no. 4.

-- (1978). "Group Therapy for Chronic Physically Ill Patients." Psychosomatics, vol. 19, no. 7.

Burke, John (1972). "Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power," in M. Kranzberg and W. Davenport, eds., Technology and Culture. New York: New American Library.

Chafetz, Morris, Bernstein, N., Sharpe, W., Schwab, R (1955). "Short- Term Group Therapy of Patients with Parkinson's Disease." The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 253, no. 22.

Charles, Allan, K. Norr, C. Block, S. Meyering, E. Meyers, "Obstetric and Psychological Effects of Psychoprophylactic Preparation for Childbirth," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, May 1, 1978.

Clarke, Arthur C. (1967). Voices from the Sky. New York: Pyramid Books.

--(1953, 1956). The City and the Stars. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World.

--(1972). Childhood's End. New York: Ballantine Books.

Condon, Edward U. (1969). Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. New York: Bantam Books.

Crowley, James (1971). "Intellectuals as Visionaries of the New Asian Order." Dilemmas of Growth in Prewar Japan, J. Morley, ed. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press.

Curran, William (1969). "Governmental Regulation of the Use of Human Subjects in Medical Research: The Approach of Two Federal Agencies.  Ethical Aspects of Experimentation with Human Subjects. Daedalus: Journal of the America Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dale, Peter (1986). The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Darnovsky, Marcy (1991). "Overhauling the Meaning Machines: An Interview with Donna Haraway." Socialist Review, vol. 21, no. 2.

Dick, Philip K. (1973). Ubik. Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther.

Dore, Ronald (1987). Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues. Stanford Univ. Press.

Ellul, Jacques (1964). The Technological Society, J. Wilkinson, trans. New York: Vintage.

Epstein, Steven (1996). Impure Science. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Ewen, Stuart (1976). Captains of Consciousness. New York: McGraw Hill.

Feenberg, Andrew and Arisaka, Yoko (1990). "Experiential Ontology: The Origins of the Nishida Philosophy in the Doctrine of Pure Experience." International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 2.

Feenberg, Andrew (1988a). "Fetishism and Form: Erotic and Economic Disorder in Literature," in P. Dumouchel, ed., Violence and Truth. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press.

--(1989a). "A User's Guide to the Pragmatics of Computer Mediated Communication," Semiotica, Vol. 75, nos. 3/4.

-(1989b). The Written World. In A. Kaye and R. Mason, eds. Mindweave: Communication, Computers, and Distance Education, Oxford: Pergamon Press.

--(1991). Critical Theory of Technology. New York: Oxford.

Fischer, Claude (1988b). Gender and the Residential Telephone, 1890-1940: Technologies of Sociability. Sociological Forum 3(2).

Foucault, Michel (1980). Power/Knowledge, C. Gordon, trans. New York: Pantheon.

Goffman, Erving (1961). Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction. New York: Bobbs-Merrill.

--(1982). Interaction Ritual. New York: Pantheon.

Greenberg, Daniel (1967). The Politics of Pure Science New York: New American Library.

Habermas, Jurgen (1970). Toward a Rational Society. J. Shapiro, trans. Boston: Beacon.

--(1984, 1987). Theory of Communicative Action, 2 vols., T. McCarthy, trans. Boston: Beacon Press.

--(1991a). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, T. Burger, trans. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Haraway, Donna (1991). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge.

--(1992). "The Promise of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others," Cultural Studies, L. Grossberg, C. Nelson, and P. Treichler, eds. New York: Routledge.

Harding, Sandra (1993). The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Press.

--(1994). "Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, Resources, Opportunities, Uncertainties." Multiculturalism: A Reader, D. T. Goldberg, ed. London: Basil Blackwell.

Hartings, Michael, Pavlou, M. and Davis, F. (1976). "Group Conseling of MS Patients in a Program of Comprehensive Care." Journal of Chronic Disease, vol. 29.

Herf, Jeffrey (1984). Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich. Cambridge: Cambrige Univ. Press.

Herrigel, Eugen (1960). Zen in the Art of Archery, trans. R.F.C. Hull. New York: Pantheon Books.

Illich, Ivan. 1976. Medical Nemesis. New York: Pantheon Press.

Ingelfinger, F. J. (1972). "Informed (But Uneducated) Consent." The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 287, no. 9.

James, William  (1943). Essays in Radical Empiricism and A Pluralistic Universe.   Longman's, Green and Co.

Jouet, J. and Flichy, P. (1991). European Telematics: The Emerging Economy of Words, D. Lytel, trans. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Katz, Elihu (1980). "Media Events: The Sense of Occasion," Studies in Visual Communication 6.

Kawabata, Yasunari (1969). Japan, The Beautiful and Myself, E. Seidensticker, trans. Tokyo and Palo Alto: Kodansha.

Kuttner, Nancy (1978). "Medical Students' Orientation Toward the Chronically Ill." Journal of Medical Education, vol. 53.

Ladd, John (1980). "Medical Ethics: Who Knows Best?" The Lancet, Nov. 22.

Latour, Bruno (1987). Science in Action. (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press.

--(1992). "Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts," in Bijker, W. and Law, J., eds., Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Lavelle, Pierre (1994). "The Political Thought of Nishida Kitaro," Monumenta Nipponica.

Leguin, Ursula (l973). The Lathe of Heaven. New York: Avon Books.

Lem, Stanislaw (l974). The Futurological Congress. New York: Seabury Press.

--(1984). Microworlds. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Lidz, Charles, Meisel, J. D., Osterweis, M., Holden, J., Marx, J., Munetz, M. (1983). "Barriers to Informed Consent." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 99, no. 4.

Loy, David (1988). Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.

Lukács, Georg (1968). The Theory of the Novel, A. Bostock, trans. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Macpherson, C. B. (1973). Democratic Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Marchand, Marie (1988). A French Success Story: The Minitel Saga, trans. Mark Murphy. Paris: Larousse.

Marcuse, Herbert (1964). One-Dimensional Man. Boston: Beacon.

--(1968). Negations, J. Shapiro, trans. Boston: Beacon.

--(1972). Counter-Revolution and Revolt. Boston: Beacon.

Miller, Roy Andrew (1971). "Levels of Speech (keigo) and the Japanese Linguistic Response to Modernization," in D. Shively, ed., Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture.Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Morley, James, (1971). "Introduction: Choice and Consequence," in Dilemmas of Growth in Prewar Japan, J. Morley, ed. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press.

Morone, Joseph and Woodhouse, Edward (1989). The Demise of Nuclear Energy? New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.

Najita, Tetsuo and Harootunian, H.D. (1988). "Japanese Revolt Against the West." The Cambridge History of Japan, P. Duus, e.d., vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Nakane, Chie (1970). Japanese Society. Univ. of California Press.

Nishida Kitaro (1987). Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview. D. Dilworth, trans. Honolulu: Univ. Of Hawaii Press.

--(1990). An Inquiry into the Good. Trans. of Zen no Kenkyu by Masao Abe and Christopher Ives. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Nishitani, Keiji (1982). Religion and Nothingness. Trans. J. Van Bragt. Berkeley: Univ. of California.

--(1991). Nishida Kitaro. Trans. Y. Seisaku and J. Heisig. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

Nora, Simon and Minc, Alain (1978). L'informatisation de la société. Paris: Editions du Seuil.

Nuckolls, Katherine, Cassel, J., Kaplan, B. (1972). "Pyschosocial Assets, Life Crisis and the Prognosis of Pregnancy." American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 95, no. 5.

Ong, Walter (1971). "The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today," in Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

--(1977). "From Mimesis to Irony," in Interfaces of the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1955). The Open Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Parsons, Talcott (1964). The Social System. New York: The Free Press.

--(1969). "Research and the Professional Complex." Ethical Aspects of Experimentation with Human Subjects. Daedalus: Journal of the America Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Perrin, Noel (1979). Giving Up the Gun. Boston: David R. Godine.

Pilarcik, Marlene (1986). "Dialectics and Change in Kawabata's Master of Go," in Modern Language Studies , vol. 16, no. 4.

Rabinowitch, Eugene (1960). "Pushing Back the Clock of Doom." The Atomic Age, M. Grodzins and E. Rabinowitch, eds. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Rybczynski, Witold (1985). Taming the Tiger. New York: Viking Penguin.

Sakai, Naoki (1989) "Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism." Postmodernism and Japan.  Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian, eds. Duke University Press.

Shapiro, Arthur and Morris, Louis (1978). "The Placebo Effect in Medical and Psychological Therapies." S. L. Garfield and A. E. Bergin (eds.), Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Sharp, Lauriston (1952). "Steel Axes for Stone Age Australians," in Human Problems in Technological Change, E. Spicer, ed. New York: Russell Sage.

Shimomura, Torataro (1966). "The Modernisation of Japan, with Special Reference to Philosophy," Philosophical Studies of  Japan, vol. VII.

Sontag, Susan (1969). "The Imagination of Disaster." Against Interpretation. New York: Dell.

Soviak, Eugene (1971). "Journal of the Iwakura Embassy," in D. Shively, ed., Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press.

Stover, Leon (1973). "Science Fiction, the Research Revolution, and John Campbell." Extrapolation, vol. 14, no. 2

Sugita, Genpaku (1969). Dawn of Western Science in Japan, R. Matsumoto and E. Kiyooka, trans. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press.

Suzuki, D. T. (1959). Zen in Japanese Culture. Princeton Univ. Press.

--(1973). The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind. New York: Samuel Weiser.

Szasz, Thomas and Hollander, Mark. 1956. "A Contribution to the Philosophyof Medicine." A.M.A. Archives of InternalMedicine, XCVII.

Szilard, Leo (1961). The Voice of the Dolphins. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Tanizaki, Jun'Ichiro (1977). In Praise of Shadows, Harper and Seidensticker, trans. New Haven: Leete's Island Books.

Warshow, Robert (1964). The Immediate Experience. New York: Anchor Books.

Winner, Langdon (1992). "Citizen Virtues in a Technological Order," Inquiry, vol. 35, nos. 3/4.

Yusa, Michiko (1991). "Nishida and the Question of Nationalism," Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 46, no. 2.