Science, History and Social Activism

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Advocating the History of Science

Chapter 3 Radical Nature in the Encyclopédie

Chapter 4 August Weismann and Ferdinand Dickel: Testing the Dzierzon System

Chapter 5 Mendel’s Hypothesis

Chapter 6 Biopower: Reflections on the Rise of Molecular Biology

Chapter 7 China, “QI,” and the Challenges of Engaged Scholarship

Chapter 8 How to Tell a Story in the Sciences: Settings and Lessons

Chapter 9 A Healthy Regard for the Facts

Chapter 10 The Dark Side of Progress

Chapter 11 The Loss of Distance: Science in Transition

Chapter 12 Radical Politics and Marxism in the History of Science

Chapter 13 “The Social Context of Science”: SOC SCI 119 as a Way of Life and Learning

Chapter 14 Naturalists as Conservationists: American Scientists, Social Responsibility, and Political Activism before the Bomb

Chapter 15 Human Experimental Abuse, In and Out of Context

Chapter 16 Networks in Action: The Khrushchev Era, the Cold War, and the Transformation of Soviet Science

Chapter 17 The Multidimensional Chess of Science and Society: A Postwar Debate over Plutonium Exposure

Chapter 18 Radioactive Fallout and Emerging Environmentalism: Cold war Fears and Public Health Concerns, 1954–1963

Chapter 19 “Strictly for the Birds”: Science, the Military and the Smithsonian’s Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, 1963–1970

Chapter 20 The Human Genome Project: Past, Present, and Future Anterior

Chapter 21 “Speaking Justice to Power”: Everett Mendelsohn as an International Public Intellectual