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Science, Technology and the Military

Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 12/1/2)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Transformation of Industry and Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289
  3. R&D: Military, Industry and the Academy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 463-463
    2. R&D and the Arms Race: An Analytical Look

      • Daniel J. Kevles
      Pages 465-480
    3. The Government of Military R&D in Britain

      • Philip Gummett
      Pages 481-506
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 541-562

Editors and Affiliations

  • Harvard University, USA

    Everett Mendelsohn

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    Merritt Roe Smith

  • University of Bielefeld, Germany

    Peter Weingart

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Science, Technology and the Military

  • Editors: Everett Mendelsohn, Merritt Roe Smith, Peter Weingart

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2958-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2783-1Published: 31 March 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8455-2Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2958-1Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0167-2320

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 288

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History, general, Sociology, general

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