Kaldewey, David (Editor)
Schauz, Désirée (Editor)
Berghahn Books
Physical Details: 312 pages
Language: English
The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheless remains ubiquitous in both scientific and public discourse. Employing a transnational, diachronic perspective informed by historical semantics, this volume traces the conceptual history of the basic–applied distinction from the nineteenth century to today, taking stock of European developments alongside comparative case studies from the United States and China. It shows how an older dichotomy of pure and applied science was reconceived in response to rapid scientific progress and then further transformed by the geopolitical circumstances of the postwar era.
...MoreReview Graeme Gooday (2019) Review of "Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 853-854).
Chapter David Kaldewey; Désirée Schauz (2018) Why Do Concepts Matter in Science Policy?. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 1-34).
Chapter György Péteri (2018) Applied Science in Stalin’s Time: Hungary, 1945–1953. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 205-227).
Chapter David Kaldewey; Tim Flink (2018) The Language of Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century: What Comes after Basic and Applied Research?. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 251-284).
Chapter Zuoyue Wang (2018) Theory Attached to Practice: Chinese Debates over Basic Research from Thought Remolding to the Bomb, 1949–1966. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 228-250).
Chapter Robert Bud (2018) Categorizing Science in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 35-63).
Chapter Désirée Schauz; David Kaldewey (2018) Transforming Pure Science into Basic Research: The Language of Science Policy in the United States. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 104-142).
Chapter Manuel Schramm (2018) Beyond the Basic/Applied Distinction? The Scientific-Technological Revolution in the German Democratic Republic, 1945–1989. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 187-204).
Chapter Carola Sachse (2018) Basic Research in the Max Planck Society: Science Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1970. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 163-186).
Chapter Sabine Clarke (2018) Fundamental Research and New Scientific Arrangements for the Development of Britain’s Colonies after 1940. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 143-162).
Chapter Gregor Lax; Désirée Schauz (2018) Professional Devotion, National Needs, Fascist Claims, and Democratic Virtues: The Language of Science Policy in Germany. In: Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 64-103).
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