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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
 

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).