Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

156 375. Twentieth century after 1950
Dissertation at Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. Adviser:
Hounshell, David A. UMI pub. no. 3154149. 435 pp.
3419. VAN RIPER, A. Bowdoin. Rockets and Missiles:
The Life Story of a Technology. Greenwood
Technographies. (xvi + 176 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004. ISBN:
0313327955.
3420. VANCE, Jonathan F. W. High Flight: Aviation
and the Canadian Imagination. (x + 338 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) Toronto, Ontario: Penguin, 2002. ISBN:
0143013459.
375. TWENTIETH CENTURY AFTER 1950
AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
375-2. NATIONAL CONTEXTS
3421. HECHT, David K. “Tumult in the Clouds:
Robert Oppenheimer and American Science.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 66/03 (2005): 1131.
Dissertation at Yale University, 2005. Adviser: Russett,
Cynthia. UMI pub. no. 3168908. 298 pp. Study of
Oppenheimer’s postwar work and his popular appeal and
how it illustrates a persistent strain of suspicion of science in
post World War II America. (from the abstract)
3422. LOW, Morris. Science and the Building of a
New Japan. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian
Institute. (xiv + 259 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 1403968314.
Focus on seven physicists in the post-World War II period.
375-20. GENERAL WORKS ON SCIENCE AND ITS
INTERACTION WITH SOCIETY AND CULTURE
3423. ABRAHAM, Carolyn. Possessing Genius: The
Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein’s Brain. (xi + 388 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
ISBN: 031228117X.
3424. JAMISON, Andrew. “Social Movements
and Science: Cultural Appropriations of Cognitive
Praxis.” Sci. Cult. 15 (2006): 45–59.
Focus on “relations between the ‘new social movements’
of the 1960s and 1970s and changes in the contemporary
scientific enterprise.” (p. 47)
375-22. SCIENCE AND POLITICS, LAW, AND
ECONOMICS
3425. BUSSOLINI, Jeffrey. “Los Alamos and Wen
Ho Lee: Migration, Nation, and Security.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 65/04 (2004): 1515.
Dissertation at City University of New York, 2004. Adviser:
Aronowitz, Stanley. UMI pub. no. 3127853. 235 pp.
3426. DOEL, Ronald E., and Kristine C. HARPER.
“Prometheus Unleashed: Science as a Diplomatic
Weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration.”
Volume title: Global Power Knowledge: Science and
Technology in International Affairs [ref. 2680]. Osiris
21 (2006): 66–85.
3427. FRICKEL, Scott. “Just Science? Organizing
Scientist Activism in the US Environmental Justice
Movement.” Special issue on Health, the Environment
and Social Movements [ref. 2678]. Sci. Cult. 13
(2004): 449–469.
3428. HECHT, Gabrielle. “Negotiating Global Nuclearities:
Apartheid, Decolonization, and the Cold
War in the Making of the IAEA.” Volume title: Global
Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International
Affairs [ref. 2680]. Osiris 21 (2006): 25–48.
3429. HOLT, James Louis. “View from the Hill:
Why the United States Congress Established, then
Abolished the Office of Technology Assessment.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/02 (2005): 731.
Dissertation at the University of Texas at Dallas, 2005.
Adviser: Channell, David. UMI pub. no. 3163246. 454 pp.
3430. KRIGE, John. “Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism,
and Scientific Intelligence.” Volume
title: Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology
in International Affairs [ref. 2680]. Osiris 21
(2006): 161–181.
3431. LYNCH, Michael, and Ruth MCNALLY.
“ ‘Science,’ ‘Common Sense,’ and DNA Evidence:
A Legal Controversy about the Public Understanding
of Science.” Public Underst. Sci. 12 (2003): 83–103.
Case study in which DNA evidence conflicted with ‘common
sense’ evidence.
3432. MACINTOSH, Kerry Lynn. Illegal Beings:
Human Clones and the Law. (xiii + 272 pp.; bibl.;
index.) New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0521853281.
3433. MASSARANI, Luisa. “Ciência, tecnologia,
parlamento e os diálogos com os cidadãos.” Translated
title: [Science, technology, parliament, and dialoguing
with citizens.] In Portuguese. Manguinhos
12 (2005): 469–472.
Includes discussions about experiences in Denmark, Canada,
Argentina, and Chile. Introduction to a special section. Additional
articles are Edna F. EINSIEDEL and Lars KLÜVER,
“Participação pública em Ciência e Tecnologia: influenciar
nas decisões e, sobretudo, manter a sociedade informada e
engajada,” 473–482; Tom SHAKESPEARE, “Democratizando
a ciência? Júris de cidadãos e outras metodologias deliberativas,”
483–487; Alberto Pellegrini FILHO, “Conferências
de Consenso: a experiência chilena,” 489–493; Adriana J.
BACCIADONNE, Ricardo FERRARO and Alberto DÍAZ, “O
genoma humano pelas ruas de Avellaneda,” 495–499.
3434. MILLER, Clark A. “Interrogating the Civic
Epistemology of American Democracy: Stability and
Instability in the 2000 US Presidential Election.” Soc.
Stud. Sci. 34 (2004): 501–530.
3435. MILOT, Pierre. “Le Conseil national de recherches
dans le champ de forces de la politique de
l’innovation.” Sci. Canadensis 25 (2001): 67–73.
Essay review of G. Bruce DOERN and Richard LEVESQUE,
The National Research Council in the Innovation Policy Era
(2002).
3436. MIROWSKI, Philip, and Robert Van HORN.
“The Contract Research Organization and the Commercialization
of Scientific Research.” Soc. Stud. Sci.
35 (2005): 503–548.
3437. MOCEK, Reinhard. “Historische Wissenschaftsforschung
als politikbegleitendes Problembewußtsein.”
In KANT and VOGT [ref. 17], 397–411.
Focus is on East Germany.
3438. MOONEY, Chris. The Republican War on
Science. (ix + 342 pp.; bibl.; index.) New York:
Basic Books, 2005. ISBN: 0465046754.
3439. ROSENBLITH, Walter A. (Ed.) Jerry Wiesner:
Scientist, Statesman, Humanist: Memories and Memoirs.
(xxiv + 612 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262182327.