Disrupting science : social movements, American scientists, and the politics of the military, 1945-1975 /
In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of sc...
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| Series: | Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The expansion and critiques of science-military ties, 1945-1970
- Scientists as moral individuals : Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science
- Information and political neutrality : liberal science activism and the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information
- Confronting liberalism : the anti-Vietnam War movement and the ABM debate, 1965-1969
- Doing "Science for the People" : enactments of a new left politics of science
- Conclusions : disrupting the social and moral order of science.
