1. 'Science and medicine were more political after World War II than they had been before.' Assess this claim.

2. How has the relative importance of industry, academia and government in the development of technologies changed since 1900?

3. 'The history of medicine since 1900 simply mirrors that of the sciences more generally.' Assess this claim.

4. How, and with what effects, did the work of laboratory scientists make its way outside the laboratory in the period 1900-1945?

5. Discuss the significance of science and technology to 'New Imperialism' at the beginning of the twentieth century.

6. How did the creation of nuclear weapons change the sciences?

7. How were scientists and other technical experts involved in global economic development after World War II, and with what consequences?

8. 'Instruments of social control.' Is this a fair summary of twentieth-century innovations in genetic, genomic and reproductive medicine?

9. 'Clinical trials in twentieth-century medicine left no room for physicians' judgment, let alone the agency of patients.' Assess this claim.

10. How did public health policies after 1950 reflect global Cold War tensions?

11. What resources were most important for the development of relativity physics in the early twentieth century?

12. Is the trajectory of science after 1945 best exemplified by the history of the particle accelerator, the satellite, or the computer?