Chapter ID: CBB001420342

The Soil Doctor: Hugh Hammond Bennett, Soil Conservation, and the Search for a Democratic Science (2013)

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Bennett clearly held that science must be socially responsible, a servant to the public interest broadly construed. Yet even if science could produce solutions to seemingly intractable problems such as erosion---and Bennett was sure it could, claiming that the soil erosion problem can be conquered. ...

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Authors & Contributors
Charles F. Dreyer
Conti-Brown, Peter
Daniel A. Goldman
Ramírez-Bahena, Marta Helena
Elisabeth J. Schmalstieg
Peix, Álvaro
Journals
Journal of Medical Biography
Environmental History
History of Psychology
Chronicles of Oklahoma
Business History Review
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Publishers
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
University of Tennessee Press
University of Chicago Press
Island Press/Shearwater Books
Auckland University Press
Cambridge University
Concepts
Farms
Conservation of natural resources
Agriculture
Environmental degradation
Soil science
Farmers
People
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Pastushenko, Vasyl Onufriievych
Lahey, Frank Howard
Rogers, Carl R.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Southern states (U.S.)
Ukraine
Oklahoma (U.S.)
Switzerland
Institutions
New Deal (1933-1939)
United States. Farm Security Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
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