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Author Moore, Kelly, 1962-

Title Disrupting science [electronic resource] : social movements, American scientists, and the politics of the military, 1945-1975 / Kelly Moore.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

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Description x, 311 p.
Series Princeton studies in cultural sociology
Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-291) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The expansion and critiques of science-military ties, 1945-1970 -- Scientists as moral individuals : Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science -- Information and political neutrality : liberal science activism and the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information -- Confronting liberalism : the anti-Vietnam War movement and the ABM debate, 1965-1969 -- Doing "Science for the People" : enactments of a new left politics of science -- Conclusions : disrupting the social and moral order of science.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Science -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Scientists -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780691113524 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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