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A companion to the history of American science /
A Companion to the History of American Science presents an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science - from the intellectual curiosity of the Founding Fathers to the country's cutting-edge technological achievements in the 21st century. Featuring c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA :
John Wiley & Sons,
2015.
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| Colección: | Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Series; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Notes on Contributors; Introduction The History of American Science; Part I Disciplines; 1 Agricultural Sciences; Agriculture Defined; Agriculture Science Defined; Historical Roots of Agricultural Science; History of Agricultural Sciences in the United States; Ethical and Social Influences; The Green Revolution and Genetic Modification; Agricultural Sciences Today; Bibliographic Essay; 2 Anthropology; Philology and Native Americans in the Early Republic; The American School of Ethnology; Nineteenth-Century Professionalization; Boas and the Boasians.
- Hooton and the HootoniansNew Currents and New Fractures; Bibliographic Essay; 3 Astronomy and Astrophysics; The Indigenous Period: Native American Astronomy; Colonial American Astronomy; The Early Republic and Antebellum Years; American Astronomy's Gilded Era, 1865-1940; Big Science for a Big Universe, 1940 to the Present; Bibliographical Essay; 4 Chemistry; Classifying the Elements; Atomic Weight; The Discovery of Elements; Bibliographical Essay; 5 Computer Science; The Computer; Early Computing during World War II; Computer Centers and Early "Computer Science"; Changing Associations.
- Professionalization and InstitutionalizationTheorization; Bibliographic Essay; 6 Conservation Biology; Nineteenth-Century Conservation and the Continuum of Concern; Conservation of Sites for Scientific Study; The Broader Conservation Message; Establishing the Science of Ecology; Ecology and the New Environmental Movement; A Synthesis for Conservation Biology; Bibliographic Essay; 7 Economics; In the Beginning was the Word Laissez-Faire; Postbellum to Fin de Siècle: Advocacy, Objectivity, and Religion; Pluralism and Social Control: The First Half of the Twentieth Century.
- Doing Economics with ModelsDoing Economics with Keynesian Models; Models to Live By; Bibliographic Essay; 8 Experimental Psychology; Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener: The Laboratory Model; William James: Darwinian Consciousness; G.S. Hall: The Profession Builder; Behaviorism: Psychology without a Mind; Clark Hull: A Mechanics of Behavior; Bibliographic Essay; 9 Genetics; Professionalization of Genetics; Key Discoveries and Breakthroughs in American Genetics; Genetics, Policy and Ethics; Bibliographical Essay; 10 Geophysics; Geophysics Before the Civil War; From the Civil War to World War II.
- Cold War GeophysicsBibliographic Essay; 11 Marine Biology; Open Ocean Research: Onboard Naturalists and Marine Zoologists; Fisheries Research: Culturists and Fisheries Biologists; Marine Stations: Fisheries and Academic Laboratories; Marine Biology Defined; Marine Biology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; Bibliographic Essay; 12 Medical Genetics; The Emergence of Medical Genetics; The Heredity Clinics; Human Cytogenetics in the United States; Building Genetic Medicine in Baltimore; Diagnostic Medical Genetics; Professionalization in Medical Genetics.