Disrupting Science
Subtitle: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975 (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 10, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780691113524
Subjects: Geography; History Of Science; Scientists; Science; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; USA; Demography; History; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Political Science and International Relations; Philosophy & Social Aspects; United States - 20th Century; 20th century; Political activity; Political aspects; Social Aspects; United States
Description: "Drawing extensively from archival sources and in-depth interviews, Kelly Moore examines the features of American science that made it an attractive target for protesters in the early cold war and Vietnam eras, including scientists' work in military research and activities perceived as environmentally harmful. She describes the intellectual traditions that protesters drew from - liberalism, moral individualism, and the New Left - and traces the rise and influence of scientist-led protest organizations such as Science for the People and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Moore shows how scientist protest activities disrupted basic assumptions about science and the ways scientific knowledge should be produced, and recast scientists' relationships to political and military institutions." --Book Jacket.