Science, History and Social Activism A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn

"To earn a degree, every doctoral candidate should go out to Harvard Square, find an audience, and explain his [or her] dissertation". Everett Mendelsohn's worldly advice to successive generations of students, whether apocryphal or real, has for over forty years spoken both to the ess...

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Other Authors: Allen, Garland E. (Editor), MacLeod, Roy M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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505 0 |a Advocating the History of Science -- Radical Nature in the Encyclopédie -- August Weismann and Ferdinand Dickel: Testing the Dzierzon System -- Mendel’s Hypothesis -- Biopower: Reflections on the Rise of Molecular Biology -- China, “Qi,” and the Challenges of Engaged Scholarship -- How to Tell A Story in the Sciences: Settings and Lessons -- A Healthy Regard for the Facts -- The Dark Side of Progress -- The Loss of Distance: Science in Transition -- Radical Politics and Marxism in the History of Science -- “The Social Context of Science”: Social Sciences as a Way of Life and Learning -- Naturalists as Conservationists: American Scientists, Social Responsibility, and Political Activism before the Bomb -- Human Experimental Abuse, in and out of Context -- Networks in Action: The Khrushchev Era, the Cold War and the Transformation of Soviet Science -- The Multidimensional Chess of Science and Society: A Postwar Debate over Plutonium Exposure -- Radioactive Fallout and Emerging Environmentalism: Cold War Fears and Public Health Concerns, 1954–1963 -- “Strictly for the Birds”: Science, the Military and the Smithsonian’s Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, 1963–1970 -- The Human Genome Project: Past, Present and Future Anterior -- “Speaking Justice to Power: Everett Mendelsohn as an International Public Intellectual -- Bibliography: The Published Writings of Everett Mendelsohn -- Notes on Contributors 
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520 |a "To earn a degree, every doctoral candidate should go out to Harvard Square, find an audience, and explain his [or her] dissertation". Everett Mendelsohn's worldly advice to successive generations of students, whether apocryphal or real, has for over forty years spoken both to the essence of his scholarship, and to the role of the scholar. Possibly no one has done more to establish the history of the life sciences as a recognized university discipline in the United States, and to inspire a critical concern for the ways in which science and technology operate as central features of Western society. This book is both an act of homage and of commemoration to Professor Mendelsohn on his 70th birthday. As befits its subject, the work it presents is original, comparative, wide-ranging, and new. Since 1960, Everett Mendelsohn has been identified with Harvard Univer­ sity, and with its Department of the History of Science. Those that know him as a teacher, will also know him as a scholar. In 1968, he began- and after 30 years, has just bequeathed to others - the editorship of the Journal of the History of Biology, among the earliest and one of the most important publications in its field. At the same time, he has been a pioneer in the social history and sociology of science. He has formed particularly close working relationships with colleagues in Sweden and Germany - as witnessed by his editorial presence in the Sociology of Science Yearbook