Science and civil society
By: edited by Lynn K. Nyhart and Thomas H. Broman.
Contributors: Nyhart, Lynn K.; Broman, Thomas Hoyt.
Series: Osiris : a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences -- 2nd ser., v. 17; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser., v. 17.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Science -- History; Science -- Political aspects -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History and the history of science redux: a preface -- Kathyrn Olesko; title: Introduction: some preliminary considerations on science and civil society -- Thomas H. Broman; title: Body and passions: materialism and the early modern state -- Harold J. Cook -- The; title: ladies' dairy: gender, mathematics, and civil society in early-eighteenth-century England -- Shelley Costa; title: Differentiating a Republican citizenry: talents, human science, and Enlightenment theories of governance -- John Carson; title: Science, politics, and religion: Humboldtian thinking and the transformations of civil society in Germany, 1830-1870 -- Andreas W. Daum; title: Teaching community via biology in late-nineteenth-century Germany -- Lynn K. Nyhart; title: In service to science and society: scientists and the public in late-nineteenth-century Russia -- Elizabeth A. Hachten; title: Statistical utopianism in an age of aristocratic efficiency -- Theodore Porter -- The; title: civic uses of science: ethnology and civil society in imperial Germany -- H. Glenn Penny; title: Civil society, science, and empire in late Republic France: the foundation of Paris's Museum of Man -- Alice L. Conklin; title: Saving China through science: the science society of China, scientific nationalism, and civil society in republican China -- Zuoyue Wang; title: Scientists and the problem of the public in Cold War America, 1945-1960 -- Jessica Wang -- The; title: creative possibilities of science in civil society and public life: a commentary -- Celia Applegate.