American foundations and large-scale research : construction and transfer of knowledge

xiii, 252 p.

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • Introduction - Aknowledgement
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  • Philantrophy and the National Security State: The Ford Foundation's Support for Physics in Europe in the 1950s
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  • Supporting Theoretical Physics for the Third World Development. The Ford Foundation and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (1966-1973)
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  • Support by Rockefeller's International Education Board for the Cooperation of Physics and Mathematics at Göttingen and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s
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  • The Strategy of Large versus Small Scale Investments, 1930-1960: The Rockefeller Foundation's International Network of Protein Research Projects
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  • From the Art of Medicine to Biomedical Science in France: Modernization or Americanization?
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  • Public Health and Research. The Istituto di Sanità Pubblica Between Support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Italian Authorities
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  • The Pigeon and the Predictor Miscarriage of a Cyborg in Spite of Foundations' Support
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  • Building Bridges in Science and Societies During the Cold War: the Origins of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA)
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  • The Ford Foundation and Docial Planning in Britain: the Case of the Institute of Community Studies and Family and Kinship in East London
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  • "Selling the Idea of Cooperation". TYhe US Foundations and the European Components of the "Urban Internazionale" (1920s-1960s)
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  • Postface
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• Information

  ISBN: 8849117299

  Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/8849117299

  SERIES

  Heuresis. [Sez.] 21.: Sezione di storia della scienza ; 1
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • Pure sciences. Education, research, related topics
  • Mathematics
  • Knowledge
  • Medical sciences
  • Systems
  • Physics
  • Science

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • Research -- Europe -- International cooperation -- History
  • Endowment of research -- Europe -- History
  • Endowments -- United States -- History