List of Figures
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Why Do Concepts Matter in Science
Policy?
Désirée Schauz and David Kaldewey
PART I: GENEALOGIES OF SCIENCE POLICY DISCOURSES
Chapter 1. Categorizing Science in Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Robert Bud
Chapter 2. Professional Devotion, National
Needs, Fascist Claims, and Democratic Virtues: The Language of
Science Policy in Germany
Désirée Schauz and Gregor Lax
Chapter 3. Transforming Pure Science into Basic
Research: The Language of Science Policy in the United States
David Kaldewey and Désirée Schauz
PART II: CONCEPTUAL SYNCHRONIZATION AND CULTURAL VARIATION
Chapter 4. Fundamental Research and New
Scientific Arrangements for the Development of Britain’s Colonies
after 1940
Sabine Clarke
Chapter 5. Basic Research in the Max Planck
Society: Science Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany,
1945–1970
Carola Sachse
Chapter 6. Beyond the Basic/Applied
Distinction?: The Scientific-Technological Revolution in the German
Democratic Republic, 1945–1989
Manuel Schramm
Chapter 7. Applied Science in Stalin’s Time:
Hungary, 1945–1953
György Péteri
Chapter 8. Theory Attached to Practice: Chinese
Debates over Basic Research from Thought Remolding to the Bomb,
1949–1966
Zuoyue Wang
PART III: OUTLOOK
Chapter 9. The Language of Science Policy in
the Twenty-First Century: What Comes after Basic and Applied
Research?
Tim Flink and David Kaldewey
Indexes
David Kaldewey is professor for science studies and science policy at the University of Bonn and co-spokesperson of the Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research. He holds a doctorate in sociology from Bielefeld University. He has published widely on the changing relationship of science, society, and politics. His research interests include the identity work of scientists and science policy makers, the crisis of truth as a challenge to science communication, and the sociology of universities in world society.
“Overall, this edited collection represents a greatly enriching contribution to conceptual history that raises questions of methodology and concepts and analyses these successfully from various national perspectives.” • NTM History of Science, Technology & Medicine “The great merit of the editors’ pluralist approach is that they allow a range of distinguished international contributors free rein to discuss the topics in depth for the United States, Germany, and Britain, with invaluable comparative discussion of Hungary and China too…a rich and intriguing Collection.” • Isis “This is an important and timely contribution to the conceptual history of science in the twentieth century, with a laudably thorough discussion of methodological and conceptual concerns.” • Julian Bauer, European University Association “Concepts reflect ideologies and policies as much as they shape them, bridging the gap between expectations and reality. This transnational probe into the "basic/applied" rhetoric of science policy discourse is a unique and overdue analysis that will contribute to our understanding of past and present relations among science, innovation and the political contexts in which they develop.” • Peter Weingart, Bielefeld University
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