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Science, Politics and the Public Good

Essays in Honour of Margaret Gowing

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Editors:
  1. Nicolaas A. Rupke

    1. Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Margaret Gowing: An Appreciation

    • Lord Bullock
    Pages 1-6

  3. Science and Government: John Phillips (1800–74) and the Early Ordnance Geological Survey of Britain

    • Jack Morrell
    Pages 7-35

  4. Science and the Public Good: George Biddell Airy (1801–92) and the Concept of a Scientific Civil Servant

    • Allan Chapman
    Pages 36-62

  5. The Road to Albertopolis: Richard Owen (1804–92) and the Founding of the British Museum of Natural History

    • Nicolaas A. Rupke
    Pages 63-89

  6. Sonar, Wireless Telegraphy and the Royal Navy: Scientific Development in a Military Context, 1890–1939

    • Willem Hackmann
    Pages 90-118

  7. The Rockefeller Foundation and German Biomedical Sciences, 1920–40: from Educational Philanthropy to International Science Policy

    • Paul Weindling
    Pages 119-140

  8. Science and Power in the Soviet Union

    • David Holloway
    Pages 141-159

  9. Forty Years into the Atomic Age

    • Rudolf Peierls
    Pages 160-168

  10. Radiation, Language and Logic

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 169-183

  11. Labour and the Origins of the National Health Service

    • Charles Webster
    Pages 184-202

  12. Economists and Engineers

    • Alec Cairncross
    Pages 203-215

  13. Public History in the United States: a Retrospective Appraisal

    • Richard Hewlett
    Pages 216-238

  14. Postscript

    • Michael Howard
    Pages 239-240

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 241-260
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About this book

An exploration of the relationship between scientific ideas, technology, government and politics, demonstrated by examples from the last 150 years, including the birth of the NHS, the Channel Tunnel, radiation protection, the atomic bomb and power, and nuclear power in the US and USSR.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

    Nicolaas A. Rupke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Science, Politics and the Public Good

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Margaret Gowing

  • Editors: Nicolaas A. Rupke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09514-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Nicolaas A. Rupke 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-09516-2Published: 01 January 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09514-8Published: 18 June 1988

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 260

  • Topics: Political Science, History of Science

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