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Quality in science / edited by Marcel Chotkowski La Follette.
LIBRA Q172.5.S34 Q34 1982
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science indicators.
- Quality (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 169 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1982]
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Gerald Holton
- Science indicators and science priorities / Harvey Brooks
- Needs, leads, and indicators / Robert S. Morison
- The quality of "the quality of science" / Bruce Mazlish
- Industry evaluation of research quality / Lewis Branscomb
- The public and science policy / Kenneth Prewitt
- Changing public attitudes to science and the quality of life / Daniel Yankelovich
- The social assessment of science, or the de-institutionalization of the scientific profession / Peter Weingart
- The quality of science equation / Orrin G. Hatch
- The role of the federal government in supporting research and development / George E. Brown, Jr.
- Decision-making for quality science / Don Fuqua and Doug Walgren
- Secrecy and openness in science / Sissela Bok
- Ethical issues in the assessment of science.
- Notes:
- "Most of the essays in this book first appeared in the winter and spring 1982 issues of the quarterly review, Science, technology & human values"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262120992
- OCLC:
- 8669297
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