The Pigeon and the Predictor Miscarriage of a Cyborg in Spite of Foundations' Support

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• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

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

  DOI: 10.1400/31929

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