Science And The American Century: Readings From Isis

Synopsis

Local Knowledge, Environmental Politics, And The Founding Of Ecology In The United States : Stephen Forbes And The Lake As A Microcosm (1887) / Daniel W. Schneider -- The Beauty And Menace Of The Japanese Cherry Trees : Conflicting Visions Of American Ecological Independence / Philip J. Pauly -- Fabricating Authenticity : Modeling A Whale At The American Museum Of Natural History, 1906-1974 / Michael Rossi -- Nature's Agents Or Agents Of Empire? : Entomological Workers And Environmental Change During The Construction Of The Panama Canal / Paul S. Sutter -- The Fire Ant Wars : Nature And Science In The Pesticide Controversies Of The Late Twentieth Century / Joshua Blu Buhs -- Patenting The Bomb : Nuclear Weapons, Intellectual Property, And Technological Control / Alex Wellerstein -- Nuclear Democracy : Political Engagement, Pedagogical Reform, And Particle Physics In Postwar America / David Kaiser -- Amateur Scientists, The International Geophysical Year, And The Ambitions Of Fred Whipple / W. Patrick Mccray -- Industrial Versailles : Eero Saarinen's Corporate Campuses For Gm, Ibm, And At & T / Scott G. Knowles And Stuart W. Leslie -- Rethinking Big Science : Modest, Mezzo, Grand Science And The Development Of The Bevalac, 1971-1993 / Catherine Westfall -- Families Made By Science : Arnold Gesell And The Technologies Of Modern Child Adoption / Ellen Herman -- Blind Law And Powerless Science : The American Jewish Congress, The Naacp, And The Scientific Case Against Discrimination, 1945-1950 / John P. Jackson, Jr. -- Visions Of A Cure : Visualization, Clinical Trials, And Controversies In Cardiac Therapeutics, 1968-1998 / David S. Jones -- Making Dollars Out Of Dna : The First Major Patent In Biotechnology And The Commercialization Of Molecular Biology, 1974-1980 / Sally Smith Hughes -- The Polonium Brief : A Hidden History Of Cancer, Radiation, And The Tobacco Industry / Brianna Rego. Edited And With An Introduction By Sally Gregory Kohlstedt And David Kaiser. Collection Of Articles Previously Published In The Journal Isis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.