"The history of science, technology and medicine (HSTM) aims to reveal the connections between what are too often considered as two separate cultures of thinking. Scientific theories and clinical judgments seem to present a 'rational' or 'objective' quality which makes people think that they exist outside of time and human society — that they are 'views from nowhere'. To a historian, however, it's obvious that everything must have come from somewhere. Applying historical techniques to the histories of science, technology and medicine reveals explanations at a fascinating range of levels."