Science policies and twentieth-century dictatorships : Spain, Italy and Argentina / edited by Amparo Gómez, Antonio Fco. Canales, Brian Balmer.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2015]

xix, 223 pages ; 24 cm.

Preface / Amparo Gómez, Antonio Fco. Canales, Brian Balmer -- Science policy under democracy and dictatorship : an introductory essay / Amparo Gómez, Brian Balmer, Antonio Fco. Canales -- The "social contract" for Spanish science before the Civil War / Amparo Gómez -- Spanish science : from the convergence with Europe to purge and exile / Francisco A. González -- The reactionary utopia : the CSIC and Spanish imperial science / Antonio Fco. Canales -- Broken science, scientists under suspicion : neuroscience in Spain during the early years of the Franco dictatorship / Rafael Huertas -- Cultures of research and the international relations of physics through Francoism : Spain at CERN / Xavier Roqué -- The National Council for Research in the context of Fascist Autarky / Roberto Maiocchi -- Statistical theory, scientific rivalry and war politics in Fascist Italy (1939-1943) / Jean-Guy Prévost -- Science, military dictatorships and constitutional governments in Argentina / Pablo Miguel Jacovkis -- Science policy in Argentina during the "Dirty War" / Diana Maffía -- Appendix: History of science in Spain, Italy and Argentina.

Includes bibliographical references and index.