
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
The University of Alabama Press
Published on 30. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-8173-0793-6 (ISBN)
Description
This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture and society. It challenges the social impact model by looking at science and technology as intellectual activities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-0793-6 (9780817307936)
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Hamilton Cravens | David M. Katzman | Alan I. Marcus
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
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11/2010
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€89.99
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Persons
Hamilton Cravens is professor of history, Iowa State University. He is author of The Triumph of Evolution: The Nature-Nature Controversy, 1900-1941 and Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children.
Alan I Marcus is professor of history and director of the Center for Historical Studies at Iowa State University. He is author of Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural College and Experiment Stations, 1870-1890 and Technology in America: A Brief History.
David M. Katzman is professor of American Studies and of history at the University of Kansas. He is author of Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century and Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America.