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Science and Ideology: A Comparative History

By Mark Walker

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
0415271223, 9780415271226
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13197973 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
288\284
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-07-16 11:04:09
Исторические дисциплины;История науки и техники

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.

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