Big Science Transformed
| Autor: | Olof Hallonsten |
|---|---|
| EAN: | 9783319327389 |
| eBook Format: | |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 15.10.2016 |
| Untertitel: | Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States |
| Kategorie: | |
| Schlagworte: | Europe Genomic Science History of Science Innovation Knowledge Society North American Nuclear Physics Particle Physics STS Science and technology studies Sociology of Science free neutron scattering science policy synchrotron radiation |
96,29 €*
Versandkostenfrei
Die Verfügbarkeit wird nach ihrer Bestellung bei uns geprüft.
Bücher sind in der Regel innerhalb von 1-2 Werktagen abholbereit.
This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of post-war science are large-scale projects, primarily in physics, which receive substantial funds from the public purse.
Big Science Transformed shows how these projects, popularly called 'Big Science', have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding science, and their impact on a number of new accelerator and reactor-based facilities that have come to prominence in materials science and the life sciences. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will be of great interest to historians, sociologists and philosophers of science.
Olof Hallonsten is a Researcher at Lund University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is a sociologist of science whose areas of expertise are the politics and organization of science and modern history of science. He has published several works on the topic of large-scale scientific instrumentation and its political and organizational aspects.
Verwandte Artikel