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1 online resource |
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Cover; Scientific governance in Britain,1914-79; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Professor Sir John Beddington; Scientific governance: an introduction: Don Leggett and Charlotte Sleigh ; Part I: Governance of science ; 1 Give me a laboratory and I will win you the war: governing science in the Royal Navy: Don Leggett; 2 Bureaucratic reformism and the cults of Sir Henry Tizard and operational research: William Thomas; 3 The evolving role of the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Cabinet, 1940-71: James Goodchild |
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4 Mugwumps? The Royal Society and the governance of post-war British science: Jeff Hughes5 The Defence Research Committee, 1963-72: Jon Agar; 6 Defence research and genetic engineering: fears and dissociation in the 1970s: Jon Agar and Brian Balmer; 7 Geological governance: surveying the North Sea in the Cold War: Leucha Veneer; 8 Doing it for Britain: science and service in oral history with government scientists: Sally Horrocks and Thomas Lean; Part II: Governance by science; 9 Geneticists on the farm: agriculture and the all-English loaf: Berris Charnley |
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10 'Man against disease': the medical Left and the lessons of science, 1918-48: John Stewart11 Science as heterotopia: the British Interplanetary Society before the Second World War: Charlotte Sleigh; 12 Governing science on BBC radio in 1930s Britain: religion, eugenics and war: Ralph Desmarais; 13 Governing the science of selection: the psychological sciences, 1921-45: Alice White; 14 Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, subjective social indicators and the post-war explosion of 'middle-opinion': Scott Anthony |
| Summary |
Examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain |
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Britain |
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Governance |
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Organisation |
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Politics |
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Pure and applied science |
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Science |
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Twentieth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Science and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Science -- history
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Science -- organization & administration
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History, 20th Century
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SCIENCE -- History.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
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Science and state
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Wissenschaftspolitik
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United Kingdom |
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1526100428 |
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9781526100429 |
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9781526100436 |
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1526100436 |
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