Science, Politics and the Public Good

1. Front Matter

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2. Margaret Gowing: An Appreciation

   • Lord Bullock

   Pages 1-6

3. Science and Government: John Phillips (1800–74) and the Early Ordnance Geological Survey of Britain

   • Jack Morrell

   Pages 7-35

4. Science and the Public Good: George Biddell Airy (1801–92) and the Concept of a Scientific Civil Servant

   • Allan Chapman

   Pages 36-62

5. The Road to Albertopolis: Richard Owen (1804–92) and the Founding of the British Museum of Natural History

   • Nicolaas A. Rupke

   Pages 63-89

6. Sonar, Wireless Telegraphy and the Royal Navy: Scientific Development in a Military Context, 1890–1939

   • Willem Hackmann

   Pages 90-118

7. The Rockefeller Foundation and German Biomedical Sciences, 1920–40: from Educational Philanthropy to International Science Policy

   • Paul Weindling

   Pages 119-140

8. Science and Power in the Soviet Union

   • David Holloway

   Pages 141-159

9. Forty Years into the Atomic Age

   • Rudolf Peierls

   Pages 160-168

10. Radiation, Language and Logic

    • Lorna Arnold

    Pages 169-183

11. Labour and the Origins of the National Health Service

    • Charles Webster

    Pages 184-202

12. Economists and Engineers

    • Alec Cairncross

    Pages 203-215

13. Public History in the United States: a Retrospective Appraisal

    • Richard Hewlett

    Pages 216-238

14. Postscript

    • Michael Howard

    Pages 239-240

15. Back Matter

    Pages 241-260

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An exploration of the relationship between scientific ideas, technology, government and politics, demonstrated by examples from the last 150 years, including the birth of the NHS, the Channel Tunnel, radiation protection, the atomic bomb and power, and nuclear power in the US and USSR.

• government
• Policy
• politics
• work

• Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

  Nicolaas A. Rupke

Policies and ethics