Jenkins, Jane -

Personal Information
First Name: 
Jane
Nom: 
Jenkins
Autre: 
Science and Technology Studies
Affiliation universitaire: 
St. Thomas University
Phone: 
5064600368
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Objet: 
Medicine
Région géographique: 
Canada
Champ d'études: 
History of public health reform, interface between animal and human health and medicine, early modern natural philosophy and theology, history of epidemics
Academics
PHD Program: 
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
PHD University: 
University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
1996
Major Publications: 
"Politics, Pasteurization and the Naturalizing Myth of Pure Milk in 1920's Saint John, New Brunswick," Acadiensis 37.2 (2008): 86 105. "Baptism of Fire: New Brunswick's Public Health Movement and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, “Seeking the End of Self-Sufficiency: Bovine Tuberculosis and Public Health Reform in New Brunswick, 1890-1930,” in Exploring the Dimensions of Self-Sufficiency in New Brunswick (forthcoming Spring 2009) “Arguing about Nothing: Henry More and Robert Boyle on the Theological Implications of the Void,” in Rethinking the Scientific Revolution Edited by Margaret J. Osler (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Membre des sociétés académiques: 
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Canadian Historical Association Canadian Association for Food Studies Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Courses Taught: 
Historical Perspectives on Science and Religion Science and Technology in World History: Pre-History to 1453/ 1453 to the Present History of the Life Sciences History of Disease