Category: Obituaries

• February 25, 2024

  Adele E. Clarke Dies at 78; Leader in Sociology and Women’s Health

  by Monica J. Casper Dr. Adele E. Clarke, an internationally known sociologist and women’s health scholar, died on January 19, 2024 in San Francisco. She was 78. Throughout her long, refreshingly nonlinear career, Clarke made substantial contributions to sociology, the history of medicine, qualitative methodologies, science and technology studies (STS), women’s health, and reproductive studies.…
• August 5, 2023

  In Memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936-2023)

  By Cristian Morales, for the Summer 2023 SKAT Newsletter The 50th anniversary edition of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions opens with an introductory essay by Ian Hacking, with the first line he writes reading “Great books are rare. This is one. Read it and you will see.” and his final line reading “……
• January 1, 2023

  In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (1947-2022)

  By Cristian Morales, for the Fall 2022 SKAT Newsletter In July 1984, thirty prominent sociologists, historians, and other scholars met for a workshop at the University of Twente that would lead to the famous volume: “The Social Construction of Technological Systems”. At this workshop were luminaries such as Trevor Pinch, Wiebe Bijker, Thomas Hughes, Harry…