Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian England
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Variorum Collected Studies
ISBN-10
0860785351
ISBN-13
9780860785354
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Variorum
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 28th, 1996
Print length
344 Pages
Weight
800 grams
Product Classification:
Central government policiesScience funding & policyHistory of science
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These essays deal with the effects of public policy on scientific research in Victorian England. The work discusses the use of science in the administration of government along with questions of patronage and official sponsorship of scientists, and funding of scientific research.
This book comprises nine essays, selected from Roy MacLeod''s work on the social history of Victorian science, and is concerned with the analysis of science as a responsibility and opportunity for 19th-century statecraft. It illuminates the origins of environmental regulation, the creation of scientific inspectorates, the reform of scientific institutions, and the association of government with the patronage and support of fundamental research. Above all, it explores several of the ways in which British scientists became ''statesmen in disguise'', negotiating interests and professional goals by association with the interests of the state as ''provider'' and agent of efficiency in education and in the application of research.
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