Science and civil society /
edited by Lynn K. Nyhart and Thomas H. Broman.
- [Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002]
- x, 373 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Osiris : a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences ; 2nd ser., v. 17 .
- Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 17. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History and the history of science redux: a preface / Introduction: some preliminary considerations on science and civil society / Body and passions: materialism and the early modern state / The ladies' dairy: gender, mathematics, and civil society in early-eighteenth-century England / Differentiating a Republican citizenry: talents, human science, and Enlightenment theories of governance / Science, politics, and religion: Humboldtian thinking and the transformations of civil society in Germany, 1830-1870 / Teaching community via biology in late-nineteenth-century Germany / In service to science and society: scientists and the public in late-nineteenth-century Russia / Statistical utopianism in an age of aristocratic efficiency / The civic uses of science: ethnology and civil society in imperial Germany / Civil society, science, and empire in late Republic France: the foundation of Paris's Museum of Man / Saving China through science: the science society of China, scientific nationalism, and civil society in republican China / Scientists and the problem of the public in Cold War America, 1945-1960 / The creative possibilities of science in civil society and public life: a commentary / Kathyrn Olesko -- Thomas H. Broman -- Harold J. Cook -- Shelley Costa -- John Carson -- Andreas W. Daum -- Lynn K. Nyhart -- Elizabeth A. Hachten -- Theodore Porter -- H. Glenn Penny -- Alice L. Conklin -- Zuoyue Wang -- Jessica Wang -- Celia Applegate.