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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
John Krige & Dominique Pestre
Images of Science
1 Historiography of Science: An American Perspective
M.A. Dennis
2 What is Science?
S. Schaffer
3 On Seeing Brockenspectres: Sex and Gender in Twentieth-Century Science
W. Faulkner & E.A. Kerr
Science and the Social Fabric
4 Science, Political Power and the State
D. Pestre
5 Crafting and Disciplining the Tropics: Plant Science in the French Colonies
C. Bonneuil
6 The Management of Society by Numbers
T.M. Porter
7 Scientific Management and the Production Process
Y. Cohen
8 The Discovery of Growth: Statistical Glimpses of Twentieth-Century Science
S.E. Cozzens
9 Academic Research, Technical Change and Government Policy
K. Pavitt
10 Science and the University: Patterns from the US Experience in the Twentieth Century
R.L. Geiger
11 Science, Scientists and the Military
E. Mendelsohn
12 Innovation and the Modern Corporation: From Heroic Invention to Industrial Science
W.B. Carlson
13 The Transformation of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Twentieth Century
L. Galambos and J.L. Sturchio
14 The History of Electronics: From Vacuum Tubes to Transistors
J.P. Collett
15 Science in Public Policy: A History of High-Level Radioactive Waste Management
F. Berkhout
16 From Eugenics to Genetic Manipulation
D.J. Kevles
17 In the Name of Science
B. Bensaude Vincent
18 Science Fiction and Science in the Twentieth Century
K. Steinm¨Ller
Interlude
19 Seeing and Picturing: Visual Representation in Twentieth-Century Science
M. Kemp
Research Dynamics
20 The Earth Sciences and Geophysics
R.E. Doel
21 Neo-Darwinism and Natural History
S. Kingsland
22 Clinical Research
C. Lawrence
23 Cancer: The Century of the Transformed Cell
I. LöWy
24 A Science ‘Dans Le Siecle’: Immunology or the Science of Boundaries
A.M. Moulin
25 The Molecular Transformation of Twentieth-Century Biology
P.G. Abir-Am
26 Biochemistry, Molecules and Macromolecules
H. Kamminga
27 Polymer Chemistry
Y. Furukawa
28 Atomic and Molecular Science 1900–1960
M.J. Nye
29 Solid State Science
L. Hoddeson
30 From ‘Elementary’ to ‘Fundamental’ Particles
S.S. Schweber
31 Computer Science: The Search for a Mathematical Theory
M.S. Mahoney
32 Astronomy
K. Hufbauer
33 Mathematics in the Twentieth Century
A.D. Dalmedico
Science and its Practices
34 Material Culture, Theoretical Culture and Delocalization
P. Galison
35 Biologists at Work: Experimental Practices in the Twentieth-Century Life Sciences
J-P. Gaudilliere
36 Mastering Nature and Yeoman: Agricultural Science in the Twentieth Century
D. Fitzgerald
37 The Role of Physical Instrumentation in Structural Organic Chemistry
P.J.T. Morris & A.S. Travis
38 Physics Instruments in the Twentieth Century
P. Brenni
Regional and National Institutions
39 Science in the United Kingdom: A Study in the Nationalization of Science
D. Edgerton
40 Russian Science in the Twentieth Century
N. Krementsov
41 Twentieth-Century German Science: Institutional Innovation and Adaptation
M. Walker
42 Science in the United States
L. Owens
43 Science in Latin America
H.M.C. Vessuri
44 Big Science and the University in India
D. Raina & A. Jain
45 Science in Twentieth-Century Japan
J.R. Bartholomew
46 The Politics of European Scientific Collaboration
J. Krige
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