Science, politics and the public good : essays in honour of Margaret Gowing

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Science, politics and the public good : essays in honour of Margaret Gowing

edited by Nicolaas A. Rupke

Macmillan, 1988

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Bibliography: p. 241-246

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This book explores the relationship between scientific ideas, technology, government, international and domestic politics, as demonstrated by, among other things, the atomic bomb and atomic power. Giving examples from the last 150 years, it looks at state endowment of geological and astronomical surveys in Victorian Britain, the founding of the British Museum (Natural History), the military importance of science during the First World War, international patronage of science, the birth of the National Health Service, the Channel Tunnel, radiation protection, nuclear power in the United States and the Soviet Union, and the public history movement. Nicolaas A. Rupke is the author of "The Great Chain of History", a biography of William Buckland, and editor of "Vivisection in Historical Perspective".

Table of Contents

  • Margaret Gowing - an appreciation, Lord Bullock
  • science and government - John Phillips (1800-74) and the early ordnance geological survey of Britain, J.Morrell
  • science and the public good - George Biddell Airy (1801-92) and the concept of a scientific civil servant, A.Chapman
  • the road to Albertpolis - Richard Owen (1804-92) and the founding of the British Museum of Natural History, N.A.Rupke
  • sonar, wireless telegraphy and the Royal Navy - scientific development in a military context, 1890-1939, W.Hackmann
  • the Rockefeller Foundation and the German biomedical sciences, 1920-40 - from educational philanthropy to international science policy, P.Weindling
  • science and power in the Soviet Union, D.Holloway
  • forty years into the atomic age, Sir Rudolph Peierls
  • radiation, language and logic, L.Arnold
  • labour and the origins of the National Health Service, C.Webster
  • economists and engineers, A.Cairncross
  • public history in the United States - a retrospective appraisal, R.Hewlett
  • postscript, M.Howard. A list of the published work of Margaret Gowing.

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