Disrupting science : social movements, American scientists, and the politics of the military, 1945-1975 / Kelly Moore.

  • Moore, Kelly, 1962-
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[2008]
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Publication/Creation

Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2008]

Physical description

x, 311 pages ; 24 cm.

Contents

Introduction -- The expansion and critiques of science-military ties, 1945-1970 -- Scientists as moral individuals : Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science -- Information and political neutrality : liberal science activism and the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information -- Confronting liberalism : the anti-Vietnam War movement and the ABM debate, 1965-1969 -- Doing "Science for the People" : enactments of a new left politics of science -- Conclusions : disrupting the social and moral order of science.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-291) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    ABR.6.AA8
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  • 9780691113524
  • 0691113521
  • 9780691162096
  • 0691162093