UID:
almafu_9959230969302883
Format:
1 online resource (344 pages)
ISBN:
1-5261-0043-6
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1-5261-1513-1
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1-5261-0042-8
Content:
During the middle portion of that century, British science grew dramatically in scale, reach and value. These changes were due in no small part to the two world wars and their associated effects, notably post-war reconstruction and the on-going Cold War. As the century went on, there were more scientists - requiring more money to fund their research - occupying ever more niches in industry, academia, military and civil institutions. Combining the latest research on 20th-century British science with insightful discussion of what it meant to govern - and govern with - science, this volume provides both an invaluable introduction to science in 20th-century Britain for students and a fresh thematic focus on science and government for researchers interested in the histories of science and governance.
Note:
Includes index.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Notes on contributors --
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Acknowledgements --
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Foreword by Professor Sir John Beddington --
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Scientific governance --
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Part I Governance of science --
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1 Give me a laboratory and I will win you the war --
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2 Bureaucratic reformism and the cults of Sir Henry Tizard and operational research --
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3 The evolving role of the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Cabinet, 1940-71 --
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4 Mugwumps? --
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5 The Defence Research Committee, 1963-72 --
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6 Defence research and genetic engineering --
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7 Geological governance --
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8 Doing it for Britain --
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Part II Governance by science --
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9 Geneticists on the farm --
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10 'Man against disease' --
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11 Science as heterotopia --
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12 Governing science on BBC radio in 1930s Britain --
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13 Governing the science of selection --
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14 Governing for happiness --
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15 Governance through education --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-9098-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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History.
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