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A Fragile Power : Scientists and the State /

When the National Science Foundation funds research about the earth's crust and the Department of Energy supports studies on the disposal of nuclear wastes, what do they expect for their money? Most scientists believe that in such cases the government wants information for immediate use or dire...

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Autor principal: Mukerji, Chandra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a List of Illustrations ; Preface; Acknowledgments ; CHAPTER ONE ; Scientists As an Elite Reserve Labor Force; CHAPTER TWO; The Development of State Interest in Science in the Nineteenth Century ; CHAPTER THREE; War and State Funding in the Twentieth Century; CHAPTER FOUR ; Managing the Scientific Labor Force; CHAPTER FIVE; Limits on the Autonomy of Soft-Money Scientists; CHAPTER SIX; Technological Dependence of Scientific Researchers; CHAPTER SEVEN; Techniques and Status in Scientific Laboratories; CHAPTER EIGHT ; Expanding the Domain of Science; CHAPTER NINE. 
505 0 |a Directing Scientific DiscourseCHAPTER TEN ; The Voice of Science; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a When the National Science Foundation funds research about the earth's crust and the Department of Energy supports studies on the disposal of nuclear wastes, what do they expect for their money? Most scientists believe that in such cases the government wants information for immediate use or directions for seeking future benefits from nature. Challenging this oversimplified view, Chandra Mukerji depicts a more complex interdependence between science and the state. She uses vivid examples from the heavily funded field of oceanography, particularly from recent work on seafloor hot springs and o. 
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