Modern Political Ideologies. Stanley Hoffmann and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Examines those ideas that moved large numbers of people in Europe and America to organized political action in the 19th and 20th centuries, such as democracy, liberty, nationalism, populism, socialism, authoritarian and totalitarian ideas. Science and Society in the 20th Century. Everett I. Mendelsohn.
Case studies focus on the atom, the gene, the environment, and the computer.
The changing nature of the scientific enterprise, its intellectual structures, and its social relations are examined. Aspects of science and war, science and the state, science and totalitarianism, and science and industry are treated. Medicine and Society in America. Allan M. Brandt. Surveys major developments in the history of American medicine since the discovery of the New World.