Abraham, Tara - History

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Tara
Last Name: 
Abraham
Department / Program: 
History
University Affiliation: 
University of Guelph
Phone: 
5198244120
Extension: 
56012
Email Address: 
taabraha@uoguelph.ca
Area of Research
Discipline: 
History
Subject: 
Biology
Geographical Region: 
United States of America
Time Period: 
20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of the life sciences,history of cybernetics,history of cognitive sciences,history of 20th-century American sciences
Academics
PHD Program: 
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
PHD University: 
University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
2000
Major Publications: 
“The Role of Negative Feedback in Cybernetics.” In Peter Hammerstein, Manfred D. Laubichler, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, ed., Regulation: Historical and Current Themes in Theoretical Biology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming. “Nicolas Rashevsky’s Mathematical Biophysics.” Journal of the History of Biology 37, no. 2 (2004): 333-385. “From Theory to Data: Representing Neurons in the 1940s.” Biology and Philosoph 18, no. 3 (2003): 415-426. “Integrating Mind and Brain: Warren S. McCulloch, Cerebral Localization, and Experimental Epistemology,” Endeavour 27, no. 1 (2003): 32-36. “(Physio)logical Circuits: The Intellectual Origins of the McCulloch-Pitts Neural Networks." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 38, no. 1 (2002): 3-25.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science History of Science Society International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
Courses Taught: 
HIST*4670 Seminar in Science and Society HIST*3310 Disease and History HIST*3690 Darwin, Culture, and Society HIST*1250 Science and Society Since 1500 ASCI*1000 Society and Science I: Historical Perspectives