ISBN:
9781781446928
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
History and Philosophy of Technoscience Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scientists' expertise as performance
DDC:
303.48309
Keywords:
Technology ; Philosophy..
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United States ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Forschungsergebnis
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Forschung
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Politikberatung
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Öffentliche Meinung
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Geschichte 1860-1960
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Politik
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Gesellschaft
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Expertise
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Geschichte 1860-1960
Abstract:
The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management. Contributors argue that experts were highly aware of their audiences and used performance to gain both scientific and popular support.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Performing Expertise -- 1 Ethnicity, Expertise and Authority: The Cases of Lewis Howard Latimer, William Preece and John Tyndall -- 2 Arbiters of Science: Expertise in Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Belgian Medical Societies -- 3 Borderless Nature: Experts and the Internationalization of Nature Protection, 1890-1940 -- 4 The Hour of the Experts?: Reflections on the Rise of Experts in Interbellum Europe -- 5 The Psychiatrist as the Leader of the Nation: Psycho-Political Expertise after the German Revolution, 1918-19 -- 6 Contested Modernity: A. G. Doiarenko and the Trajectories of Agricultural Expertise in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia -- 7 The Rise of the Scientist-Diplomat within British Atomic Energy, 1945-55 -- 8 The Reform Technocrats: Strategists of the Swedish Welfare State, 1930-60 -- 9 Rationalization Comes to Rome: Expertise in Labour Management at the Third International Congress, 1927 -- 10 Scientific Expertise in Child Protection Policies and Juvenile Justice Practices in Twentieth-Century Belgium -- 11 Expertise and Trust in Dutch Individual Health Care -- Notes -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction: Performing Expertise; 1 Ethnicity, Expertise and Authority: The Cases of Lewis Howard Latimer, William Preece and John Tyndall; 2 Arbiters of Science: Expertise in Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Belgian Medical Societies; 3 Borderless Nature: Experts and the Internationalization of Nature Protection, 1890-1940; 4 The Hour of the Experts?: Reflections on the Rise of Experts in Interbellum Europe; 5 The Psychiatrist as the Leader of the Nation: Psycho-Political Expertise after the German Revolution, 1918-19
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Contested Modernity: A. G. Doiarenko and the Trajectories of Agricultural Expertise in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia7 The Rise of the Scientist-Diplomat within British Atomic Energy, 1945-55; 8 The Reform Technocrats: Strategists of the Swedish Welfare State, 1930-60; 9 Rationalization Comes to Rome: Expertise in Labour Management at the Third International Congress, 1927; 10 Scientific Expertise in Child Protection Policies and Juvenile Justice Practices in Twentieth-Century Belgium; 11 Expertise and Trust in Dutch Individual Health Care; Notes; Index
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