Frontiers Of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of ProgressTemple University Press, 2010 M06 10 - 256 pages For the past fifty years, science and technology—supported with billions of dollars from the U.S. government—have advanced at a rate that would once have seemed miraculous, while society's problems have grown more intractable, complex, and diverse. Yet scientists and politicians alike continue to prescribe more science and more technology to cure such afflictions as global climate change, natural resource depletion, overpopulation, inadequate health care, weapons proliferation, and economic inequality. Daniel Sarewitz scrutinizes the fundamental myths that have guided the formulation of science policy for half a century—myths that serve the professional and political interests of the scientific community, but often fail to advance the interests of society as a whole. His analysis ultimately demonstrates that stronger linkages between progress in science and progress in society will require research agendas that emerge not from the intellectual momentum of science, but from the needs and goals of society. |
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... wonderfully stimulat- ing and challenging intellectual environment in that most unlikely of all settings : the United States House of Representatives . xi FRONTIERS OF ILLUSION 1 The End of the Age of Copyrighted Material PREFACE.
... United States to lead the world in technological innovation . Physicists even acted as the conscience of the nation by spearheading the opposition to a nuclear arms race that they had unwittingly unleashed . Embodied by the benev- olent ...
... United . States after the war . Federal funding for research and development grew from less than $ 2 billion per year in the early 1950s to more than $ 70 billion per year in the early 1990s.1 Yet the past fifty years have shown that ...
... United States science and technology policy at the end of the age of physics and a portrayal of the R & D system in its political setting . It is not a critique of science and tech- nology per se , nor is it a discussion of the ...
Contents
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The Myth of Accountability | 51 |
The Myth of Authoritativeness | 71 |
The Myth of the Endless Frontier | 97 |
Pas de Trois Science Technology and the Marketplace | 117 |
Science as a Surrogate for Social Action | 141 |
Toward a New Mythology | 169 |
Notes | 197 |
Index | 231 |
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Frontiers Of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress Daniel Sarewitz No preview available - 1996 |
Frontiers Of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress Daniel Sarewitz No preview available - 1996 |