Dr. Brian Dolan

Recent Books and Articles Published

Books (Monographs)

Inventing Entertainment: The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)

Josiah Wedgwood: Entrepreneur to the Enlightenment (London: HarperCollins, 2004; paperback 2005) (New York: Viking, 2004)

Ladies of the Grand Tour (London and New York: HarperCollins, 2001; paperback 2002)

Exploring European Frontiers: British Travelers in the Age of Enlightenment (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)

Books (Edited books)

Science and Literature: Chemistry (London: Chatto and Pickering, 2004)

Malthus, Medicine and Morality: Malthusianism since 1798 (Atlanta and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000; paperback 2000) (Clio Medica, Volume 59, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine)

Science Unbound: Geography, Space & Discipline (Umea University Press, 1999)

Articles

All papers below in PDF or linked to the UCSF Center for Humanities and Health Sciences (eScholarship Repository, University of California)

Brian Dolan. 2007. "Soul Searching: A brief history of the mind/body debate in the neurosciences" Neurosurgical Focus 23 (1).

Brian Dolan. 2007. "Computer Aided Diagnosis in Mammography: Its Development and Early Challenges" IEEE Proceedings (1-4244-0785-0/06), 821-825.

Brian Dolan. 2007. "The Art of Evidence and the Morality of Medical Decisions". Unpublished typescript of paper presented to Social Medicine Grand Rounds, UCSF, May 22, 2007. Cite: Center for Humanities and Health Sciences, eScholarship Repository, University of California, 2007, Paper 1.

Brian Dolan. 2006. "Neurological Humanism: The Divided Brain and the Unification of Two Cultures", Invited paper presented at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting (April 24, 2006). Cite: Center for Humanities and Health Sciences at UCSF, eScholarship Repository, University of California, 2006, Paper 1.

Brian Dolan. 2005. "Reordering the Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment", Invited paper presented to the international symposium “Between Renaissance and Enlightenment: The Scientific Revolution,” University of Florida, February 25, 2005. A modified version was subsequently published as an essay review of Richard Yeo’s Encyclopedic Visions in Minerva 43 (2005), 87-98. Please consult and cite the published version.

Brian Dolan and Travis Elborough. 2004. "An Enlightened Historian", Interview and Essay published in paperback edition of Brian Dolan, Josiah Wedgwood: Entrepreneur to the Enlightenment (London: HarperCollins, 2004). (Proof copy reproduced here.)

Brian Dolan. 2003. "Embodied Skills and Travelling Savants: Experimental Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Sweden and England", in Ana Simoes, A. Carniero, M.P. Diogo, eds, Travels of Learning: A Geography of Science in Europe (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers), 115-141.

Brian Dolan. 2003. "‘I, witness …’: The Grand Tour and the Georgian Lady of Letters", invited paper presented to the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, UCLA, August 2003. Themes drawn from Brian Dolan, Ladies of the Grand Tour (New York and London: HarperCollins, 2001). Cite: DAHSM Papers, eScholarship Repository, University of California, 2003, Paper 1.

Brian Dolan. 2002. "Conservative Politicians, Radical Philosophers and the Aerial Remedy for the Diseases of Civilization", History of the Human Sciences 15 (2): 35-54.

Brian Dolan. 2000. "The Language of Experiment in Chemical Textbooks: Some Examples from Early Nineteenth-Century Britain", presentation for European Science Foundation workshop, “The Evolution of Chemistry in Europe”, Uppsala University, February 1996. A published version of this paper appears in Anders Lundgren and Bernadette Bensuade-Vincent, eds, Communicating Chemistry: Textbooks and their Audiences 1789-1939 (Canton, MA: Science History Publications), 141-164. Please consult the original for correct pagination and citation.

Brian Dolan. 1999. "Cultural Relativism or Eurocentrism?", Invited paper presented at Université Paris, June 1999. Unpublished manuscript, excerpts drawn from Brian Dolan, Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999). Cite: DAHSM Papers, eScholarship Repository, University of California, 1999, Paper 1.

Brian Dolan. 1998. "Imperial Archives: French and British Museology from the ‘Land of Lost Gods’", Invited paper presented for ‘Révolution: politique, arts et sciences,’ Maison Française d’Oxford, 16 May 1998. Cite: DAHSM Papers, eScholarship Repository, University of California, 1998, Paper 1.