{"product_id":"scientific-governance-in-britain-191479-manc01-13-06-2019-9780719090981","title":"Scientific Governance in Britain 191479 Manc01 13","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The wide range of case studies, both temporally and thematically, make this volume indispensable for any student of British science and government in the twentieth century.’\u003cbr\u003eWaqar Zaidi, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), \u003ci\u003eAnnals of Science, December 2016\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScientific governance: an introduction - Don Leggett and Charlotte Sleigh\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Governance of science\u003cbr\u003e1. Give me a laboratory and I will win you the war: governing science in the Royal Navy - Don Leggett\u003cbr\u003e2. Bureaucratic reformism and the cults of Sir Henry Tizard and Operational Research - William Thomas\u003cbr\u003e3. The evolving role of the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Cabinet, 1940-71 - James Goodchild\u003cbr\u003e4. Mugwumps? The Royal Society and the governance of post-war British science - Jeff Hughes\u003cbr\u003e5. The Defence Research Committee, 1963-72 - Jon Agar\u003cbr\u003e6. Defence research and genetic engineering: fears and dissociation in the 1970s - Jon Agar and Brian Balmer\u003cbr\u003e7. Geological governance: surveying the North Sea in the Cold War - Leucha Veneer\u003cbr\u003e8. Doing it for Britain: science and service in oral history with government scientists - Sally Horrocks and Tom Lean\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Governance by science\u003cbr\u003e9. Geneticists on the farm: agriculture and the all-English loaf - Berris Charnley\u003cbr\u003e10. 'Man against disease': the medical left and the lessons of science, 1918-48 - John Stewart\u003cbr\u003e11. Science as heterotopia: the British Interplanetary Society before World War II - Charlotte Sleigh\u003cbr\u003e12. Governing science on BBC radio in 1930s Britain: religion, eugenics and war - Ralph Desmarais\u003cbr\u003e13. Governing the science of selection: the psychological sciences, 1921-45 - Alice White\u003cbr\u003e14. Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, subjective social indicators and the post-war explosion of 'middle-opinion' - Scott Anthony\u003cbr\u003e15. Governance through education: Herman Bondi, Karl Popper and the making of scientific citizens - Neil Calver\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884290224471,"sku":"9780719090981","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scientific-governance-in-britain-191479-manc01-13-06-2019-9780719090981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}