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ISBN:
Category : Science and state
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A History of Science Policy in the United States, 1940-1985
History Of Science Policy In The United States, 1940-1985
Author: History of Science in United States
Author: Marc RothenbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135583188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America. It can be used by students, general readers, scientists, or anyone interested in the facts relating to the development of science in the United States. Special emphasis is placed in the history of medicine and technology and on the relationship between science and technology and science and medicine.
Disrupting Science
Author: Kelly MoorePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691162093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
"Drawing extensively from archival sources and in-depth interviews, Kelly Moore examines the features of American science that made it an attractive target for protesters in the early cold war and Vietnam eras, including scientists' work in military research and activities perceived as environmentally harmful. She describes the intellectual traditions that protesters drew from - liberalism, moral individualism, and the New Left - and traces the rise and influence of scientist-led protest organizations such as Science for the People and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Moore shows how scientist protest activities disrupted basic assumptions about science and the ways scientific knowledge should be produced, and recast scientists' relationships to political and military institutions."--Jacket.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Enabling American Innovation
Author: Dian Olson BelangerPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531117
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Traces engineers' struggle to win intellectual, financial and organizational recognition within the National Science Foundation. This book analyzes the tools and arguments, how they altered over time, and how budgetary and philosophical debates were played out through organizational manipulation.
Reviewing the Cold War
Author: Odd Arne WestadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135306818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it.
A Companion to American Technology
Author: Carroll PursellPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470695331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of “technology” in America. 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in American society
Science and Technology Advice for Congress
Author: M. Granger MorganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136526757
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The elimination of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in 1995 came during a storm of budget cutting and partisan conflict. Operationally, it left Congress without an institutional arrangement to bring expert scientific and technological advice into the process of legislative decisionmaking. This deficiency has become increasingly critical, as more and more of the decisions faced by Congress and society require judgments based on highly specialized technical information. Offering perspectives from scholars and scientists with diverse academic backgrounds and extensive experience within the policy process, Science and Technology Advice for Congress breaks from the politics of the OTA and its contentious aftermath. Granger Morgan and Jon Peha begin with an overview of the use of technical information in framing policy issues, crafting legislation, and the overall process of governing. They note how, as nonexperts, legislators must make decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty and competing scientific claims from stakeholders. The contributors continue with a discussion of why OTA was created. They draw lessons from OTA's demise, and compare the use of science and technological information in Europe with the United States. The second part of the book responds to requests from congressional leaders for practical solutions. Among the options discussed are expanded functions within existing agencies such as the General Accounting or Congressional Budget Offices; an independent, NGO- administrated analysis group; and a dedicated successor to OTA within Congress. The models emphasize flexibility--and the need to make political feasibility a core component of design.