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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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History and philosophy of technoscience |
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History and philosophy of technoscience.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction: Performing Expertise; 1 Ethnicity, Expertise and Authority: The Cases of Lewis Howard Latimer, William Preece and John Tyndall; 2 Arbiters of Science: Expertise in Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Belgian Medical Societies; 3 Borderless Nature: Experts and the Internationalization of Nature Protection, 1890-1940; 4 The Hour of the Experts?: Reflections on the Rise of Experts in Interbellum Europe; 5 The Psychiatrist as the Leader of the Nation: Psycho-Political Expertise after the German Revolution, 1918-19 |
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6 Contested Modernity: A.G. Doiarenko and the Trajectories of Agricultural Expertise in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia7 The Rise of the Scientist-Diplomat within British Atomic Energy, 1945-55; 8 The Reform Technocrats: Strategists of the Swedish Welfare State, 1930-60; 9 Rationalization Comes to Rome: Expertise in Labour Management at the Third International Congress, 1927; 10 Scientific Expertise in Child Protection Policies and Juvenile Justice Practices in Twentieth-Century Belgium; 11 Expertise and Trust in Dutch Individual Health Care; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management. Contributors argue that experts were highly aware of their audiences and used performance to gain both scientific and popular support |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Science -- Social aspects -- History
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Science -- Political aspects -- History
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Expertise -- Social aspects -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Expertise -- Social aspects
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Science -- Political aspects
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Science -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vandendriessche, Joris
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Peeters, Evert.
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Wils, Kaat.
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| ISBN |
9781781446928 |
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178144692X |
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9781317317227 |
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131731722X |
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9781848935273 |
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1848935277 |
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9781781446935 |
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1781446938 |
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