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Scientific governance in Britain,1914–79

Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Professor Sir John Beddington

Scientific governance: an introduction: Don Leggett and Charlotte Sleigh

Part I: Governance of science

1 Give me a laboratory and I will win you the war: governing science in the Royal Navy: Don Leggett

2 Bureaucratic reformism and the cults of Sir Henry Tizard and operational research: William Thomas

3 The evolving role of the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Cabinet, 1940–71: James Goodchild

4 Mugwumps? The Royal Society and the governance of post-war British science: Jeff Hughes

5 The Defence Research Committee, 1963–72: Jon Agar

6 Defence research and genetic engineering: fears and dissociation in the 1970s: Jon Agar and Brian Balmer

7 Geological governance: surveying the North Sea in the Cold War: Leucha Veneer

8 Doing it for Britain: science and service in oral history with government scientists: Sally Horrocks and Thomas Lean

Part II: Governance by science

9 Geneticists on the farm: agriculture and the all-English loaf: Berris Charnley

10 ‘Man against disease’: the medical Left and the lessons of science, 1918–48: John Stewart

11 Science as heterotopia: the British Interplanetary Society before the Second World War: Charlotte Sleigh

12 Governing science on BBC radio in 1930s Britain: religion, eugenics and war: Ralph Desmarais

13 Governing the science of selection: the psychological sciences, 1921–45: Alice White

14 Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, subjective social indicators and the post-war explosion of ‘middle-opinion’: Scott Anthony

15 Governance through education: Herman Bondi, Karl Popper and the making of scientific citizens: Neil Calver

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