Elisabeth T Crawford

Denationalizing Science: The Contexts of International Scientific Practice - Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook Elisabeth T Crawford 1993 edition

Marc Notes: Papers presented at the Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook Conference What is international in science? held in Abisko, Sweden, May 26-June 1, 1991.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface. The Nationalization and Denationalization of the Sciences: An Introductory Essay; E. Crawford, T. Shinn, S. Sorlin. National and International Aspects of Cross-boundary Science: Scientific Travel in the 18th Century; S. Sorlin. Antarctica: The Construction of a Continent by and for Science; A. Elzinga. The International Phytogeographical Excursions, 1911-1923: Intellectual Convergence in Vegetation Science; K. S. Fischedick, T. Shinn. Migration and the Denationalization of Science; P. Hoch, J. Platt. From Multidisciplinary Collaboration to Transnational Objectivity: International Space as Constitutive of Molecular Biology, 1930-1970; P. Abir-Am. National Political Cultures and the Exchange of Knowledge: The Case of Systems Ecology; A. Jamison. Internationalism in Soviet World-Science: The Hungarian Case; G. Pallo. Some Sociohistorical Aspects of Multiinstitutional Collaborations in High Energy Physics at Cern Between 1975-1985; J. Krige. Redesigning Solomon's House: Conflicts over the Role of University in the Internationalization of Science and Business; H. Etzkowitz. Index."

Contributor Bio:  Sorlin, Sverker Sorlin is a professor of environmental history in the Department of the History of Science and Ideas at the Umea University, Sweden.