title: Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, & Practice
author: Julie T. Klein
description: In this volume, Julie Klein provides the first comprehensive study of the modern concept of interdisciplinarity, supplementing her discussion with the most complete bibliography yet compiled on the subject.
zlib_text: In Defense of Disciplines
  
  In Defense of 
  Disciplines 
  Interdisciplinarity and Specialization 
  in the Research University
  jerry a. jacobs
  The University of Chicago Press
  Chicago and London
  
  Jerry A. Jacobs is professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co -
  author, with Ann Boulis, of The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the 
  Evolution of Health Care in America and, with Kathleen Gerson, The Time Divide: 
  Work, Family, and Gender Inequality, among others.
  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
  The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
  © 2013 by The University of Chicago
  All rights reserved. Published 2013.
  Printed in the United States of America
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  isbn-13: 978-0-226-06929-6 (cloth)
  isbn-13: 978-0-226-06932-6 (paper)
  isbn-13: 978-0-226-06946-3 (e-book)
  doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226069463.001.0001
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Jacobs, Jerry A., 1955–
   In defense of disciplines : interd