Vita
Tal Golan specializes in the history of science in the 18th and 19th
centuries, and in the relations between science, technology and law. He
is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley(1997), with
a Ph.D.in the History of Science and he taught at the Ben Gurion University
before coming to UCSD in 2004. |
Publications
Book:
- Laws of Man and Laws of Nature: A History of Scientific Expert
Testimony, (Harvard University Press, spring 2004).
- Editor, Science, Technology and Israeli Society, Special
Volume of Israel Studies, (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University
Press, Summer 2004).
- Editor, Science and Law, Special Volume of Science in
Context , (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, July 1999).
Journal Articles:
- "Evidence of Things Unseen: The Legal and Medical Receptions
of the X-ray in America," Social Studies of Science (2004).
- "Learning to See: The Origin of Visual Technologies in Medicine
and Law," Plilim (Tel-Aviv University Law Review) (2003), 3:59-88.
- "Blood Will Out: Distinguishing Humans from Animals and Scientists
from Charlatans in the Nineteenth-Century Courtroom," Historical
Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (2000) 31:93-124.
- "History of Scientific Expert Testimony in the English Courtroom,"
Science in Context (1999) 12:5-34.
- "The Authority of Shadows: The Legal Embrace of the X-Ray,"
Historical Reflections (1998) 24:437-458
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