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Notes on Contributors
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Table of Contents
Science and Politics Margaret C. Jacob, Guest Editor
Science and Politics in the Late
Twentieth Century
Margaret C. Jacob
487
The Political Economy of Science
in Seventeenth-Century England
James R. Jacob
505
Science, Tocqueville, and the
State: The Organization of
Knowledge in Modern France
Terry Shinn
533
After the Neutrality Ideal:
Science, Politics, and "Strong
Objectivity"
Sandra Harding
567
Soviet Scientists and the State:
Politics, Ideology, and
Fundamental Research from
Stalin to Gorbachev
Paul R. Josephson
589
What We Now Know About
Naxism and Science
Alan Beyerchen
615
Heisenberg, German Science
and the Third Reich
David C. Cassidy
643
Eugenic Anxieties, Social
Realities, and Political Choices
Diane B. Paul
663
Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)
Alan Beyerchen teaches German history at the Ohio State University and is the author of Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich (1981).
David C. Cassidy is associate professor of chemistry at Hofstra College. He wrote Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg (1991).
Sandra Harding is professor of philosophy at the University of Delaware. Her most recent book is Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (1991).
James R. Jacob teaches early modern intellectual history in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has written on Robert Boyle and on the Baconian tradition in seventeenth-century England.
Margaret C. Jacob is professor of history in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Her most recent book is The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution (1988).
Paul R. Josephson teaches in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (1991).
Diane B. Paul is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and research associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Terry Shinn, director of research at CNRS, Paris, is coauthor
of Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation (1985).