Denationalizing science : the contexts of international scientific practice /

Present trends indicate that in the years to come transnational science, whether basic or applied and involving persons, equipment or funding, will grow considerably. The main purpose of this volume is to try to understand the reasons for this denationalization of science, its historical contexts an...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Crawford, Elisabeth T. (Editor), Shinn, Terry (Editor), Sörlin, Sverker (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media, [1993]
Series:Sociology of the sciences ; v. 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • The nationalization and denationalization of the sciences: an introductory essay / Elisabeth Crawford, Terry Shinn and Sverker Sorlin
  • National and international aspects of cross-boundary science: scientific travel in the 18th century / Sverker Sorlin
  • Antarctica: the construction of a continent by and for science / Aant Elzinga
  • International phytogeographical excursions, 1911-1923: intellectual convergence in vegetation science / Kaat Schulte-Fischedick and Terry Shinn
  • Migration and the denationalization of science / Paul Hoch and Jennifer Platt
  • From multidisciplinary collaboration to transnational objectivity: international space as constitutive of molecular biology, 1930-1970 / Pnina Abir-Am
  • National political cultures and the exchange of knowledge: the case of systems ecology / Andrew Jamison
  • Internationalism in Soviet world-science: the Hungarian case / Gabor Pallo
  • Some socio-historical aspects of multinational collaborations in high-energy physics at Cern between 1975 and 1985 / John Krige
  • Redesigning 'Solomon's House': the university and the internationalization of science and business / Henry Etzkowitz.