... as the science editor of a major educational book series shows how a scientist who became deeply involved with the publishing industry could serve as a conduit by which others could be drawn in and mentored while they served an informal apprenticeship as a writer. There seems to have been surprisingly little...

...; but if Pu was a yang scientist cultivating a tu persona, Yuan and his biographers have had to work hard to lay claim to the yang credentials of a professional scientist, painting Yuan as an isolated, beleaguered genius and downplaying the context of mass...

... in an antagonistic way: engagement in a battle against superstition incurred certain consequences. In attacking religious forms of knowledge, scientists helped strengthen the authoritarian character of the state ideology, thus indirectly contributing to their own persecution. At the same time, efforts to expose...

...This chapter focuses on the so-called “springtime for science”—the decades since the death of Máo and the end of the Cultural Revolution. As in Máo's China, officials in the post-Máo era found the proliferation of new voices and new ideas difficult to manage, and once again, many scientists...

... and a pattern of stunted, deflected, and wrecked careers. Ambiguous identity is another defining experience of border life. Scientists take their identities from their work and workplaces—as is the case with most middle-class occupations. Border lab field Careers border Darwin Charles Carnegie Andrew...

...Chapter 9 turns to the aesthetics and rhetoric of genetics and blood groups as they were used in the early 1950s by UNESCO (a specialized agency of the UN) and by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Both organizations used science and scientists in public efforts to mitigate racial tensions...

... of man-made chemicals as food additives led to debates about food purity and safety and whom to trust in an increasingly complex and lengthy food chain. Manufacturers, retailers, the press, politicians, scientists, and the public jostled to mediate over who should have authority in food and what...

... be thoroughly familiar with sentiments like these associated with the writings of sociologists of science and academic fellow travelers, as they will be equally familiar with the outraged reactions to them expressed by a number of natural scientists, convinced that such claims are motivated mainly or solely...

...It is doubtful whether this situation is alterable to any great extent. Most professional scientists have neither the inclination nor incentives to divert any appreciable fraction of their time and energies from their main pursuits. But should one try? Some want scientists to become more aware...

... sensitive to the art of the sciences: on six of his canvases, large maps are suspended on walls. They express the sum total of geographical knowledge that was, by then, very advanced. Similarly, two paintings each portray a scientist: an astronomer in front of books, brushing his hand over a celestial globe...

... focuses on historical and philosophical examination of themes and issues central to the last forty years of paleobiological thought, and the third offers personal reflections on careers in paleobiology by many of the scientists who shaped the paleobiological revolution. Darwin C R Eldredge N...

...This chapter examines the relationship between attributions about a scientist’s character and the trustworthiness of scientific knowledge resulting from that scientist’s efforts. It analyzes the issue of intelligence and education in Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male...

...This chapter examines the depiction or portrayal of women scientists in science television programs in the United States. It explains that television transmitted potent statements about the role and status of women in science, and that the female scientists were professionally marginalized...

...This chapter examines how various actors involved in the biotechnology project in Cuba created space for scientific research. It suggests that the biotechnology project was a product of the large-scale mobilization that brought together the government, scientists, laborers and foreign consultants...

...This chapter looks at a group of Christian scientists, educated at Andover and Yale, who maintained close ties to these institutions. Geologists Edward Hitchcock and Benjamin Silliman were the best known scientists among this group. Their work in geology broke ground for the new science in America...

...In the mid-1980s, American and Chinese scientists began to engage each other in a low-key manner in nuclear arms control that would develop into wide-ranging bilateral interactions to the present, even withstanding geopolitical changes brought by the Tiananmen tragedy in 1989 and the end...

...This chapter examines the demographics of pseudoscientific and the problems in finding agreement among scientists, philosophers, and historians of science on how best to demarcate science from pseudoscience. It examines how science is defined as a way of distinguishing it from pseudoscience; some...

...After World War II, Harold C. Urey first attempted to work toward the control of atomic weapons. He joined Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling in founding the Federation of Atomic Scientists and the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists—organizations that aimed to raise awareness of the hazards...

... inspired them. Next came other scientists, who confirmed her fundamental points and greatly expanded the level of evidence regarding impacts on birds and fish into unassailable proof, which fueled the environmental groups who organized citizens and learned to use the power of law. The development...

... and green revolutions through the experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and "educated youth." The history of what in China was called "scientific farming" offers a unique opportunity not only to explore the environmental and social consequences of modern agricultural technologies, but also...