The Politics of Pure Science

The Politics of Pure Science
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1999-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780226306322

Dispelling the myth of scientific purity and detachment, Daniel S. Greenberg documents in revealing detail the political processes that underpinned government funding of science from the 1940s to the 1970s.

That Noble Science of Politics

That Noble Science of Politics
Author: Stefan Collini
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1983-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521277709

In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'.

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950
Author: Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469636417

In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on the anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, physicians, and other experts who collaborated across borders from the Mexican Revolution through World War II, Rosemblatt traces how intellectuals on both sides of the Rio Grande forged shared networks in which they discussed indigenous peoples and other ethnic minorities. In doing so, Rosemblatt argues, they refashioned race as a scientific category and consolidated their influence within their respective national policy circles. Postrevolutionary Mexican experts aimed to transform their country into a modern secular state with a dynamic economy, and central to this endeavor was learning how to "manage" racial difference and social welfare. The same concern animated U.S. New Deal policies toward Native Americans. The scientists' border-crossing conceptions of modernity, race, evolution, and pluralism were not simple one-way impositions or appropriations, and they had significant effects. In the United States, the resulting approaches to the management of Native American affairs later shaped policies toward immigrants and black Americans, while in Mexico, officials rejected policy prescriptions they associated with U.S. intellectual imperialism and racial segregation.

The Science and Politics of Racial Research

The Science and Politics of Racial Research
Author: William H. Tucker
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780252065606

Unlike other critiques of the scientific literature on racial difference, The Science and Politics of Racial Research argues that there has been no scientific purpose or value to the study of innate differences in ability between groups. William Tucker shows how, for more than a century, scientific investigations of supposedly innate differences in ability between races have been used to rationalize social and political inequality as the unavoidable consequence of natural differences. Tucker structures his work chronologically, with each chapter describing how research on genetic difference was used in a particular era to support a particular political agenda. He begins with the use of science to support slavery in the mid-nineteenth century and ends with the effects of Jensenism in the 1970s. Highlights include one chapter describing a little-known but concerted attempt by a group of scientists to overturn the Brown v. Board of Education decision on the basis of "expert testimony" about racial differences, and another that presents a review of the eugenics movement in the twentieth century. The author also considers how to balance the rights and responsibilities of scientists, concluding that one generally neglected method is to strengthen the rights of research subjects.

The American Science of Politics

The American Science of Politics
Author: Prof. Bernard Crick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2006-10-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134685769

Originally published between 1943 and 1969, the volumes in the International Library of Sociology Political Sociology set were written against a backdrop of rapid and radical political change. Covering topics as wide-ranging as European federalism, democracy and dictatorship and voting, these titles are as relevant today as when they were first published.

The Science and Politics of I.q.

The Science and Politics of I.q.
Author: L. J. Kamin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136557806

Published in 1974, The Science and Politics of I.q. is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.

The Art and Politics of Science

The Art and Politics of Science
Author: Harold Varmus
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-05-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393073564

A Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and scientific adviser to President Obama reflects on his remarkable career. A PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard University, Harold Varmus discovered he was drawn instead to medicine and eventually found himself at the forefront of cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco. In this “timely memoir of a remarkable career” (American Scientist), Varmus considers a life’s work that thus far includes not only the groundbreaking research that won him a Nobel Prize but also six years as the director of the National Institutes of Health; his current position as the president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and his important, continuing work as scientific adviser to President Obama. From this truly unique perspective, Varmus shares his experiences from the trenches of politicized battlegrounds ranging from budget fights to stem cell research, global health to science publishing.

The Science of Politics

The Science of Politics
Author: Josep Maria Colomer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Political science
ISBN: 9780195397741

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