Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Ruth Schwartz Cowan is an American historian of science, technology and medicine noted for her research on the history of human and medical genetics, as well as on the history of household technologies. She is the author of a widely used textbook, A Social History of American Technology, on the history of colonial American, industrial, and 20th century socio-technical relations.

More Work for Mother

Cowan's book More Work for Mother found that since 1700, "technological change shifted the burden of domestic labor from adult men and children to mothers and wives." == Honors and awards ==

Honors and awards

Cowan's More Work for Mother received the Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology in 1984. In 1997 the Society for the History of Technology also awarded her the Leonardo da Vinci Medal. Cowan received the John Desmond Bernal Prize in 2007 for distinguished scholarly contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) for her textbook A Social History of American Technology. Cowan was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014. == Selected publications ==

Selected publications

• Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening (2008). Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press. , • More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. Basic Books. 1983. • A Social History of American Technology, Oxford University Press, 1997, == References ==

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