Scientific Enterprise in America: Readings from Isis

Title: Scientific Enterprise in America: Readings from Isis
Author: Ronald L Numbers
ISBN: 9780226608389
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
Published: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: New edition
Number of Pages: 348
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Publisher Description: This collection of sixteen essays on the history of science in America ranges chronologically from the early nineteenth century to the present. The essays reflect the ever-broadening scope of the discipline: from the pursuit of science in elite academic, industrial, and governmental settings to science at home and in the movies. Such timely issues as women and science, the ethics of science, and the bomb are examined.

Contributions include Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, "Parlors, Primers, and Public Schooling: Education for Science in Nineteenth-Century America; " Margaret Rossiter, "'Women's Work' in Science, 1880 1910; " Philip J. Pauly, "The Development of High School Biology: New York City, 1900 1925; " Susan E. Lederer, "Political Animals: The Shaping of Biomedical Research Literature in Twentieth-Century America; " Stanley Goldberg, "Inventing a Climate of Opinion: Vannevar Bush and the Decision to Build the Bomb; " Daniel J. Kevles, "The National Science Foundation and the Debate over Postwar Research Poli 1942 1945: A Political Interpretation of "Science The Endless Frontier"; " David A. Hollinger, "Science as a Weapon in "Kulturkä mpfe" in the United States During and After World War II; " and others.

These essays originally were published in "Isis," a publication of the History of Science Society.