
Science in the Twentieth Century
Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social Sc (Publisher)
Published on 20. August 1997
Book
Hardback
978 pages
978-90-5702-172-5 (ISBN)
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Description
With over forty chapters, written by leading scholars, this comprehensive volume represents the best work in America, Europe, and Asia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Gordon and Breach
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 56 mm
Weight
2273 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5702-172-5 (9789057021725)
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Content
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