Scientific governance in Britain, 1914–79 edited by Don Leggett and Charlotte Sleigh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leggett, Don, editor.

Sleigh, Charlotte, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state.

Science and state--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Place of Publication:

Manchester, Michigan : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

During the middle portion of that century, British science grew dramatically in scale, reach and value. These changes were due in no small part to the two world wars and their associated effects, notably post-war reconstruction and the on-going Cold War. As the century went on, there were more scientists - requiring more money to fund their research - occupying ever more niches in industry, academia, military and civil institutions. Combining the latest research on 20th-century British science with insightful discussion of what it meant to govern - and govern with - science, this volume provides both an invaluable introduction to science in 20th-century Britain for students and a fresh thematic focus on science and government for researchers interested in the histories of science and governance.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Professor Sir John Beddington

Scientific governance

Part I Governance of science

1 Give me a laboratory and I will win you the war

2 Bureaucratic reformism and the cults of Sir Henry Tizard and operational research

3 The evolving role of the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Cabinet, 1940-71

4 Mugwumps?

5 The Defence Research Committee, 1963-72

6 Defence research and genetic engineering

7 Geological governance

8 Doing it for Britain

Part II Governance by science

9 Geneticists on the farm

10 'Man against disease'

11 Science as heterotopia

12 Governing science on BBC radio in 1930s Britain

13 Governing the science of selection

14 Governing for happiness

15 Governance through education

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526100436

1526100436

9781526115133

1526115131

9781526100429

1526100428

OCLC:

980560858