Science in the Twentieth Century (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Krige, John; Pestre, Dominique

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 978
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134406869
• Artikelnr.: 40095159

Autorenporträt

John Krige, Dominique Pestre

Inhaltsangabe

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 1900-1960
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