Shaping Biology : The National Science Foundation and American Biological Research, 1945-1975.
"This is one of those rare books that historians and sociologists of science will use for a very long time as a valuable resource... Toby A. Appel's is a compelling and important story, written with a sense of humor and humanity" -- Annals of Science.
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| Imprint: | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Envisioning a Federal Patron for Biology -- Chapter 1 - Making a Place for Biology at the "Endless Frontier," 1945-1950 -- Chapter 2 - Fashioning a New Federal Patron for Biology, 1950-1952 -- Chapter 3 - Expanding and Experimenting in the 1950s -- Chapter 4 - Government Relations and Policy-making in the Cold War Era -- Chapter 5 - Competing within a Pluralist Federal Funding System, 1952-1963 -- Chapter 6 - Funding Individuals and Institutions in the 1960s -- Chapter 7 - Promoting Big Biology -- Chapter 8 - Allocating Resources to a Divided Science -- Chapter 9 - Forging New Directions after the Golden Age, 1968-1972 -- Chapter 10 - End of an Era, 1972-1975 -- Appendix A - Program Officers, 1951-1975, Division of Biological and Medical Sciences -- Appendix B - Members of Divisional and Advisory Committees, Biological and Medical Sciences, 1952-1972 -- Notes -- Note on NSF Primary Sources -- Index. | |
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