1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911080316203321

Titolo

The nation's investment in cancer research : a budget proposal for fiscal years ... / / prepared by the Director, National Cancer Institute

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethesda, Md., : National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, Md. : , : National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

ISSN

2330-8273

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (volumes)

Collana

NIH publication

Disciplina

353.0084/1

Soggetti

Cancer - Research - United States

Cancer - Research

Expenditures, Public

Research - Planning

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Some issues have distinctive titles.

Subtitles vary slightly.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911092831903321

Autore

Cao Cong <1959->

Titolo

China's scientific elite / / Cong Cao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

ISBN

1-134-33729-9

0-203-68318-8

1-280-03735-0

9786610037353

0-203-39060-1

9780203390603

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon studies on China in transition ; ; 21

Classificazione

71.30

Disciplina

306.450951

331.7/615/0951

331.76150951

Soggetti

Science - Social aspects - China

Scientists - China

Elite (Social sciences) - China

China Intellectual life 1976-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CHINA'S SCIENTIFIC ELITE; ROUTLEDGECURZON STUDIES ON CHINA IN TRANSITION; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 China's science in perspective; 3 The evolution of an academic honor; 4 Social origins; 5 The influence of elite mentors on students; 6 The characteristics of research and becoming elite; 7 "Red" or "Expert"; 8 Elections of scientists into the elite group; 9 Toward a better understanding of China's scientific elite; Appendix: interviewing China's scientific elite; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

China's Scientific Elite is a study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out extensive systematic data collection of CAS members Cao examines the social stratification system of the Chinese



science community and the way in which politics and political interference has effected the stratification. The book then goes on to compare the Chinese system to the stratification of the US scientific elite. The conclusions are fascinating, not least because one national elite resides in a democratic liberal so