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UNINA9910136555103321 |
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Autore |
Hallonsten Olof |
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Titolo |
Big Science Transformed : Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States / / by Olof Hallonsten |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 310 p. 14 illus.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Culture |
Knowledge, Sociology of |
Science - Philosophy |
Engineering |
Life sciences |
Social sciences |
Humanities |
Sociology of Culture |
Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse |
Philosophy of Science |
Technology and Engineering |
Life Sciences |
Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1. Introduction and Framework -- Chapter 2. History and Politics -- Chapter 3. Organization -- Chapter 4. Resilience and Renewal -- Chapter 5. Users and Productivity -- Chapter 6. Socio-Economic Expectations and Impacts -- Chapter 7. The Implications of Transformation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew |
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to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of post-war science are large-scale projects, primarily in physics, which receive substantial funds from the public purse. Big Science Transformed shows how these projects, popularly called 'Big Science', have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding science, and their impact on a number of new accelerator and reactor-based facilities that have come to prominence in materials science and the life sciences. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will be of great interest to historians, sociologists and philosophers of science. |
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