Science and ideology : a comparative history

Author(s)

• Walker, Mark

Bibliographic Information

Science and ideology : a comparative history

edited by Mark Walker

（Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige）

Routledge, 2003

• : hbk
• : pbk

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780415271226

Description

Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular developments in science took place under particular political regimes, but they may or may not have been directly determined by them. Science and Ideology brings together a number of comparative case studies to examine the relationship between science and the dominant ideology of a state. Cybernetics in the USA is compared to France and the Soviet Union. Postwar Allied science policy in occupied Germany is juxtaposed to that in Japan. The essays are narrowly focussed, yet cover a wide range of countries and ideologies. The collection provides a unique comparative history of scientific policies and practices in the 20th century.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Marie Walker
• Chapter 2 Science and Totalitarianism, Yakov M. Rabkin, Elena Z. Mirskaya
• Chapter 3 "Ideologically Correct" Science, Michael Gordin, Walter Grunden, Mark Walker, Zuoyue Wang
• Chapter 4 From Communications Engineering to Communications Science, David Mindell, Jerome Segal, Slava Gerovitch
• Chapter 5 Science Policy in Post-1945 West Germany and Japan, Richard H. Beyler, Morris F. Low
• Chapter 6 The Transformation of Nature under Hitler and Stalin, Paul Josephson, Thomas Zeller
• Chapter 7 Legitimation through Use, Burghard Ciesla, Helmuth Trischler
• Chapter 8 Weaving Networks, Uwe Hossfeld, Jurgen John, Rudiger Stutz
• Chapter 9 Friedrich Moeglich, Dieter Hoffmann, Mark Walker

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415279994

Description

Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular developments in science took place under particular political regimes, but they may or may not have been directly determined by them. Science and Ideology brings together a number of comparative case studies to examine the relationship between science and the dominant ideology of a state. Cybernetics in the USA is compared to France and the Soviet Union. Postwar Allied science policy in occupied Germany is juxtaposed to that in Japan. The essays are narrowly focussed, yet cover a wide range of countries and ideologies. The collection provides a unique comparative history of scientific policies and practices in the 20th century.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA59253317
• ISBN:
  • 0415271223
  • 0415279992
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 267 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 509.04
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Science and state -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Ideology -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA28108266