Science, Politics and the Public Good Essays in Honour of Margaret Gowing [Paperback]

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.Margaret Gowing - an appreciation, Lord Bullock; science and government - John Phillips (1800-74) and the early ordnance geological survey of Britain, J.Morrell; science and the public good - George Biddell Airy (1801-92) and the concept of a scientific civil servant, A.Chapman; the road to Albertpolis - Richard Owen (1804-92) and the founding of the British Museum of Natural History, N.A.Rupke; sonar, wireless telegraphy and the Royal Navy - scientific development in a military context, 1890-1939, W.Hackmann; the Rockefeller Foundation and the German biomedical sciences, 1920-40 - from educational philanthropy to international science policy, P.Weindling; science and power in the Soviet Union, D.Holloway; forty years into the atomic age, Sir Rudolph Peierls; radiation, language and logic, L.Arnold; labour and the origins of the National Health Service, C.Webster; economists and engineers, A.Cairncross; public history in the United States - a retrospective appraisal, R.Hewlett; postscript, M.Howard. A list of the published work of Margaret Gowing.