Mark Walker

Science and Ideology (eBook, PDF)

A Comparative History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136466625
• Artikelnr.: 39705187

Autorenporträt

Mark Walker teaches modern European history and the history of science and technology at Union College in Schenectady, NY. He has published several books and articles on science under National Socialism, including German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-1949 (1989) and Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atom Bomb (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Marie Walker; Chapter 2 Science and Totalitarianism
Yakov M. Rabkin
Elena Z. Mirskaya; Chapter 3 "Ideologically Correct" Science
Michael Gordin
Walter Grunden
Mark Walker
Zuoyue Wang; Chapter 4 From Communications Engineering to Communications Science
David Mindell
Jérôme Segal
Slava Gerovitch; Chapter 5 Science Policy in Post-1945 West Germany and Japan
Richard H. Beyler
Morris F. Low; Chapter 6 The Transformation of Nature under Hitler and Stalin
Paul Josephson
Thomas Zeller; Chapter 7 Legitimation through Use
Burghard Ciesla
Helmuth Trischler; Chapter 8 Weaving Networks
Uwe Hoßfeld
Jürgen John
Rüdiger Stutz; Chapter 9 Friedrich Möglich
Dieter Hoffmann
Mark Walker;