Science in the Twentieth Century

With over forty chapters, written by leading scholars, this comprehensive volume represents the best work in America, Europe, and Asia.

Autorentext

John Krige, Dominique Pestre

Inhalt
Images of Science; 1: Historiography of Science; 2: What is Science?; 3: On Seeing Brockenspectres; Science and the Social Fabric; 4: Science, Political Power and the State; 5: Crafting and Disciplining the Tropics; 6: The Management of Society by Numbers; 7: Scientific Management and the Production Process; 8: The Discovery of Growth; 9: Academic Research, Technical Change and Government Policy; 10: Science and the University; 11: Science, Scientists, and the Military; 12: Innovation and the Modern Corporation; 13: The Transformation of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Twentieth Century; 14: The History of Electronics; 15: Science in Public Policy; 16: From Eugenics to Genetic Manipulation; 17: In the Name of Science; 18: Science Fiction and Science in the Twentieth Century; Interlude; 19: Seeing and Picturing; Research Dynamics; 20: The Earth Sciences and Geophysics; 21: Neo-Darwinism and Natural History; 22: Clinical Research; 23: Cancer; 24: A Science 'Dans Le Siecle'; 25: The Molecular Transformation of Twentieth-Century Biology; 26: Biochemistry, Molecules and Macromolecules; 27: Polymer Chemistry; 28: Atomic and Molecular Science 19001960; 29: Solid State Science; 30: From 'Elementary' to 'Fundamental' Particles; 31: Computer Science; 32: Astronomy; 33: Mathematics in the Twentieth Century; Science and its Practices; 34: Material Culture, Theoretical Culture and Delocalization; 35: Biologists at Work; 36: Mastering Nature and Yeoman; 37: The Role of Physical Instrumentation in Structural Organic Chemistry; 38: Physics Instruments in the Twentieth Century; Regional and National Institutions; 39: Science in the United Kingdom; 40: Russian Science in the Twentieth Century; 41: Twentieth-Century German Science; 42: Science in the United States; 43: Science in Latin America; 44: Big Science and the University in India; 45: Science in Twentieth-Century Japan; 46: The Politics of European Scientific Collaboration