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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2001, 2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2001 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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