Book ID: CBB000100891

Science, History, and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn (2001)

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Allen, Garland E. (Editor)
MacLeod, Roy M. (Editor)


Kluwer Academic


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: x + 388 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Garland E. Allen; Roy M.macleod: Introduction: The Life and Work of Everett Mendelsohn. Jane Maienschein: Advocating the History of Science. Shirley Roe: Radical Nature in the Encyclopédie. Frederick B. Churchill: August Weismann and Ferdinand Dickel: Testing the Dzierzon Systes. R. Falk: Mendel's Hypothesis. Lily E. Kay: Biopower: Reflections on the Rise of Molecular Biology. Anne Harrington: China, “Qi”, and the Challenges of Engaged Scholarship. H. Nowotny: How to Tell A Story in the Sciences: Settings and Lessons. Peter A. Buck: A Healthy Regard for the Facts. J.-J Salomon: The Dark Side of Progress. Peter Weingart: The Loss of Distance: Science in Transition. Garland E. Allen: Radical Politics and Marxism in the History of Science. Gary Werskey: “The Social Context of Science”: Social Sciences 119 as a Way of Life and Learning. Mark V. Barrow: Naturalists as Conservationists: American Scientists Social Responsibility, and Political Activism before the Bomb. Robert N. Proctor: Human Experimental Abuse in and out of Context. Mark B. Adams: Networks in Action: The Kruschev Era, the Cold War and the Transformation of Soviet Science. Gilbert Whittemore: The Multidimensional Chess of Science and Society: A Postwar Debate over Plutonium Exposure. E. S. Watkins: Radioactive Fallout and Emerging Environmentalism: Cold War Fears and Public Health Concerns, 1954-1963. Roy M Macleod: “Strictly for the Birds”: Science, the Military and the Smithsonian's Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, 1963-1970. Michael Fortun: The Human Genome Project: Past, Present and Future Anterior. Yaron Ezrahi: Speaking Justice to Power: Everett Mendelsohn as an International Public Intellectual.


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Review Chilvers, C. A. J. (2006) Review of "Science, History, and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 148). unapi

Review Lindee, Susan (2005) Review of "Science, History, and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 420). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Brinkmann, Svend
Dietrich, Michael R.
Dowbiggin, Ian Robert
Dupré, Sven
Enebakk, Vidar
Ferretti, Federico
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of the History of Biology
British Journal for the History of Science
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Manchester University Press
Springer
The MIT Press
Transaction Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Science and society
Political activists and activism
History of science, as a discipline
Science and politics
Historiography
Prizes; awards
People
Mendelsohn, Everett
Fleck, Ludwig
Lilley, Samuel
Plonka-Syroka, Bozena
Dewey, John
Luria, Salvador Edward
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
17th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Netherlands
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
Institutions
University of Chicago
MIT
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