TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jewett,Andrew
TI  - Science, democracy, and the American university: from the Civil War to the Cold War 
SN  - 9781107027268
AV  - Q127.U6 J49 2012eb
U1  - 303.48/309730904 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Democracy and science
KW  - United States
KW  - Science and state
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Démocratie et sciences
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Politique scientifique et technique
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Histoire
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Philosophy & Social Aspects
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Social Aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : relating science and democracy -- Founding hopes -- Internal divisions -- Science and philosophy -- Scientific citizenship -- The biology of culture -- The problem of cultural change -- Making scientific citizens -- Science and its contexts -- The problem of values -- Two cultures -- Accommodation -- Conclusion : science and democracy in a new century
N2  - "This book fundamentally reinterprets the rise of the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern America. Andrew Jewett demonstrates the remarkable persistence of a belief that the scientific enterprise carried with it a set of ethical resources capable of grounding a democratic culture - a political function widely assigned to religion. The book traces the shifting formulations of this belief from the creation of the research universities in the Civil War era to the early Cold War, tracking hundreds of leading scholars who challenged technocratic modes of governance rooted in a strictly value-neutral image of science. Many of these figures favored a deliberative model of democracy, defined by a vigorous process of public deliberation rather than rationalized administration or interest-group bargaining. This vision generated surprisingly nuanced portraits of science in the years before the military-industrial complex"--
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