期刊全称 | Big Science Transformed | 期刊简称 | Science, Politics an | 影响因子2023 | Olof Hallonsten | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Offers an examination of Big Science from the Cold War era, and military-industrial complex laboratories, to the present economically driven organizations.Provides an ambitious conceptual framework fo | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of post-war science are large-scale projects, primarily in physics, which receive substantial funds from the public purse. .Big Science Transformed. shows how these projects, popularly called ‘Big Science‘, have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding science, and their impact on a number of new accelerator and reactor-based facilities that have come to prominence in materials science and the life sciences. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will be of great interest to historians, sociologists and philosophers of science.. | Pindex | Book 2016 |
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