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Disrupting science [electronic resource] : social movements, American scientists, and the politics of the military, 1945-1975 / Kelly Moore.

By: Moore, Kelly, 1962-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Princeton studies in cultural sociology: Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008Description: x, 311 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Science -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Scientists -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 509.73 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction -- The expansion and critiques of science-military ties, 1945-1970 -- Scientists as moral individuals : Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science -- Information and political neutrality : liberal science activism and the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information -- Confronting liberalism : the anti-Vietnam War movement and the ABM debate, 1965-1969 -- Doing "Science for the People" : enactments of a new left politics of science -- Conclusions : disrupting the social and moral order of science.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-291) and index.

Introduction -- The expansion and critiques of science-military ties, 1945-1970 -- Scientists as moral individuals : Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science -- Information and political neutrality : liberal science activism and the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information -- Confronting liberalism : the anti-Vietnam War movement and the ABM debate, 1965-1969 -- Doing "Science for the People" : enactments of a new left politics of science -- Conclusions : disrupting the social and moral order of science.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.