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Zusatztext 'The book's widespread uptake shows that it has already fulfilled its main purpose of 'accompanying' scholars and young entrants to the field in their formation and specialization. Thanks to the new paperback version! it will very likely continue to do so in the years to come' - Simon Turchetti! University of Manchester! BJHS Informationen zum Autor John Krige, Dominique Pestre Zusammenfassung With over forty chapters, written by leading scholars, this comprehensive volume represents the best work in America, Europe and Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Historiography of Science; 2: What is Science?; 3: On Seeing Brockenspectres; 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; 19: Seeing and Picturing; 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; 34: Material Culture, Theoretical Culture and Derealization; 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; 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...
