Science in the Twentieth Century,9789057021725

Science in the Twentieth Century

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9789057021725
ISBN10: 9057021722
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-09-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

With over forty chapters, written by leading scholars, this comprehensive volume represents the best work in America, Europe, and Asia. Geographical diversity of the authors is reflected in the different perspectives devoted to the subject, and all major disciplinary developments are covered. There are also sections concerning the countries that have made the most significant contributions, the relationship between science and industry, the importance of instrumentation, and the cultural influence of scientific modes of thought. Students and professionals will come to appreciate how, and why, science has developed - as with any other human activity, it is subject to the dynamics of society and politics.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix(6)
List of Tables
xv(2)
List of Contributors xvii(4)
Introduction xxi
JOHN KRIGE
DOMINIQUE PESTRE
IMAGES OF SCIENCE 1(60)
1 Historiography of Science: An American Perspective
1(26)
M.A. DENNIS
2 What is Science?
27(16)
S. SCHAFFER
3 On Seeing Brockenspectres: Sex and Gender in Twentieth-Century Science
43(18)
W. FAULKNER
E.A. KERR
SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC 61(300)
4 Science, Political Power and the State
61(16)
D. PESTRE
5 Crafting and Disciplining the Tropics: Plant Science in the French Colonies
77(20)
C. BONNEUIL
6 The Management of Society by Numbers
97(14)
T.M. PORTER
7 Scientific Management and the Production Process
111(16)
Y. COHEN
8 The Discovery of Growth: Statistical Glimpses of Twentieth-Century Science
127(16)
S.E. COZZENS
9 Academic Research, Technical Change and Government Policy
143(16)
K. PAVITT
10 Science and the University: Patterns from the US Experience in the Twentieth Century
159(16)
R.L. GEIGER
11 Science, Scientists and the Military
175(28)
E. MENDELSOHN
12 Innovation and the Modern Corporation: From Heroic Invention to Industrial Science
203(24)
W.B. CARLSON
13 The Transformation of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Twentieth Century
227(26)
L. GALAMBOS
J.L. STURCHIO
14 The History of Electronics: From Vacuum Tubes to Transistors
253(22)
J.P. COLLETT
15 Science in Public Policy: A History of High-Level Radioactive Waste Management
275(26)
F. BERKHOUT
16 From Eugenics to Genetic Manipulation
301(18)
D.J. KEVLES
17 In the Name of Science
319(20)
B. BENSAUDE VINCENT
18 Science Fiction and Science in the Twentieth Century
339(22)
K. STEINMULLER
INTERLUDE 361(30)
19 Seeing and Picturing: Visual Representation in Twentieth-Century Science
361(30)
M. KEMP
RESEARCH DYNAMICS 391(278)
20 The Earth Sciences and Geophysics
391(26)
R.E. DOEL
21 Neo-Darwinism and Natural History
417(22)
S. KINGSLAND
22 Clinical Research
439(22)
C. LAWRENCE
23 Cancer: The Century of the Transformed Cell
461(18)
I. LOWY
24 A Science `Dans Le Siecle': Immunology or the Science of Boundaries
479(16)
A.M. MOULIN
25 The Molecular Transformation of Twentieth-Century Biology
495(30)
P.G. ABIR-AM
26 Biochemistry, Molecules and Macromolecules
525(22)
H. KAMMINGA
27 Polymer Chemistry
547(18)
Y. FURUKAWA
28 Atomic and Molecular Science 1900-1960
565(20)
M.J. NYE
29 Solid State Science
585(14)
L. HODDESON
30 From `Elementary' to `Fundamental' Particles
599(18)
S.S. SCHWEBER
31 Computer Science: The Search for a Mathematical Theory
617(18)
M.S. MAHONEY
32 Astronomy
635(16)
K. HUFBAUER
33 Mathematics in the Twentieth Century
651(18)
A.D. DALMEDICO
SCIENCE AND ITS PRACTICES 669(90)
34 Material Culture, Theoretical Culture and Delocalization
669(14)
P. GALISON
35 Biologists at Work: Experimental Practices in the Twentieth-Century Life Sciences
683(18)
J-P. GAUDILLIERE
36 Mastering Nature and Yeoman: Agricultural Science in the Twentieth Century
701(14)
D. FITZGERALD
37 The Role of Physical Instrumentation in Structural Organic Chemistry
715(26)
P.J.T. MORRIS
A.S. TRAVIS
38 Physics Instruments in the Twentieth Century
741(18)
P. BRENNI
REGIONAL AND NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 759(160)
39 Science in the United Kingdom: A Study in the Nationalization of Science
759(18)
D. EDGERTON
40 Russian Science in the Twentieth Century
777(18)
N. KREMENTSOV
41 Twentieth-Century German Science: Institutional Innovation and Adaptation
795(26)
M. WALKER
42 Science in the United States
821(18)
L. OWENS
43 Science in Latin America
839(20)
H.M.C. VESSURI
44 Big Science and the University in India
859(20)
D. RAINA
A. JAIN
45 Science in Twentieth-Century Japan
879(18)
J.R. BARTHOLOMEW
46 The Politics of European Scientific Collaboration
897(22)
J. KRIGE
INDEX 919

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