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  title info:
    title: Science policy under Thatcher
  name:
    name part: Agar, Jon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 293 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979-1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a professional politician, and she maintained a close watch on science matters as prime minister. Scientific knowledge and advice were important to many urgent issues of the 1980s, from late Cold War questions of defense to emerging environmental problems such as acid rain and climate change. Drawing on newly released primary sources, Jon Agar explores how Thatcher worked with and occasionally against the structures of scientific advice, as the scientific aspects of such issues were balanced or conflicted with other demands and values. To what extent, for example, was the freedom of the individual scientist to choose research projects balanced against the desire to secure more commercial applications? What was Thatcher's stance towards European scientific collaboration and commitments? How did cuts in public expenditure affect the publicly funded research and teaching of universities? In weaving together numerous topics, including AIDS and bioethics, the nuclear industry and strategic defense, Agar adds to the picture we have of Thatcher and her radically Conservative agenda, and argues that the science policy devised under her leadership, not least in relation to industrial strategy, had a prolonged influence on the culture of British science.
  note: Jon Agar.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Conservative Party (Great Britain)
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Thatcher, Margaret
  subject:
    topic: Science and state
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1979-1997
  classification: Q127.G4 A337 2019
  classification: 509.41
  identifier: 9781787353428
  identifier: 1787353427
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    record creation date: 181224
    record change date: 20200117110358.0
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