Shaping biology the National Science Foundation and American biological research, 1945-1975
Annotation Historians of the postwar transformation of science have focused largely on the physical sciences, especially the relation of science to the military funding agencies. In Shaping Biology, Toby A. Appel brings attention to the National Science Foundation and federal patronage of the biolog...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2000.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38510029*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Envisioning a Federal Patron for Biology
- Chapter 1
- Making a Place for Biology at the "Endless Frontier," 1945-1950
- Chapter 2
- Fashioning a New Federal Patron for Biology, 1950-1952
- Chapter 3
- Expanding and Experimenting in the 1950s
- Chapter 4
- Government Relations and Policy-making in the Cold War Era
- Chapter 5
- Competing within a Pluralist Federal Funding System, 1952-1963
- Chapter 6
- Funding Individuals and Institutions in the 1960s
- Chapter 7
- Promoting Big Biology.
- Chapter 8
- Allocating Resources to a Divided Science
- Chapter 9
- Forging New Directions after the Golden Age, 1968-1972
- Chapter 10
- End of an Era, 1972-1975
- Appendix A
- Program Officers, 1951-1975, Division of Biological and Medical Sciences
- Appendix B
- Members of Divisional and Advisory Committees, Biological and Medical Sciences, 1952-1972
- Notes
- Note on NSF Primary Sources
- Index.
