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Technical knowledge in American culture : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s
Technical Knowledge in American Culture addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture, society, and era. These essays challenge the social impact model by looking at science, technology, and medicine not as social activities but as intellectual activities.
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Cold War social science : knowledge production, liberal democracy, and human nature
\"From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States, which became the world's acknowledged leader in the field. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War. Utilizing the controversial but useful concept of \"Cold War Social Science,\" the contributions gathered here reveal how scholars from established disciplines and new interdisciplinary fields of study made important contributions to long-standing debates about knowledge production, liberal democracy, and human nature in an era of diplomatic tension and ideological conflict\"-- Provided by publisher.
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What's New in Science and Race since the 1930s?: Anthropologists and Racial Essentialism
Since the Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s, government on all levels have moved to outlaw, fitfully and inconsistently, but nevertheless with some momentum, racial segregration in many areas of American life. The assault on racial essentialism by scientists has been an important driver of this change.
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