Research Catalog

Title

Science, history, and social activism : a tribute to Everett Mendelsohn / edited by Garland E. Allen and Roy M. MacLeod.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Mendelsohn, Everett.
• Allen, Garland E.
• MacLeod, Roy M.

Description

x, 388 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 228

Uniform Title

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 228.

Subject

• Science > Social aspects
• Science > Philosophy
• Life sciences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Garland E. Allen and Roy M. MacLeod -- Advocating the History of Science / Jane Maienschein -- Radical Nature in the Encyclopedie / Shirley Roe -- August Weismann and Ferdinand Dickel: Testing the Dzierzon System / Frederick B. Churchill -- Mendel's Hypothesis / Raphael Falk -- Biopower: Reflections on the Rise of Molecular Biology / Lily E. Kay -- China, "Qi," and the Challenges of Engaged Scholarship / Anne Harrington -- How to Tell A Story in the Sciences: Settings and Lessons / Helga Nowotny -- A Healthy Regard for the Facts / Peter Buck -- The Dark Side of Progress / Jean-Jacques Salomon -- The Loss of Distance: Science in Transition / Peter Weingart -- Radical Politics and Marxism in the History of Science / Garland E. Allen -- "The Social Context of Science": Social Sciences as a Way of Life and Learning / Gary Werskey --
• Naturalists as Conservationists: American Scientists, Social Responsibility, and Political Activism before the Bomb / Mark V. Barrow, Jr. -- Human Experimental Abuse, in and out of Context / Robert N. Proctor -- Networks in Action: The Khrushchev Era, the Cold War and the Transformation of Soviet Science / Mark B. Adams -- The Multidimensional Chess of Science and Society: A Postwar Debate over Plutonium Exposure / Gilbert F. Whittemore -- Radioactive Fallout and Emerging Environmentalism: Cold War Fears and Public Health Concerns 1954-1963 / Elizabeth S. Watkins -- "Strictly for the Birds": Science, the Military and the Smithsonian's Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, 1963-1970 / Roy MacLeod -- The Human Genome Project: Past, Present and Future Anterior / Michael A. Fortun -- "Speaking Justice to Power": Everett Mendelsohn as an International Public Intellectual / Yaron Ezrahi -- Bibliography: The Published Writings of Everett Mendelsohn.

ISBN

1402004958 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2002023597

OCLC

• 49949895
• ocm49949895
• SCSB-4278863

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries