A compelling and timely account of the corruption, corporatization, and militarization of science in the United States.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Clifford D. Conner taught history of science at the School of Professional Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of A People’s History of Science (Bold Type Books, 2005) and biographies of three revolutionaries: Jean Paul Marat, Arthur O’Connor, and Colonel Despard.
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Foreword Table of Contents Epigraph Introduction PART 1: THE CORPORATIZATION OF AMERICAN SCIENCE 1 The Big Fat Lie 2 The Green Revolution 3 From Green Revolution to Gene Revolution 4 The Tobacco Strategy 5 Fraudulent Pharma 6 Spitting in the Well We Drink From 7 Atoms for Peace? 8 The Academic-Industrial Complex 9 Think Tanks and the Betrayal of Reason 10 The Dismal Science is Certainly Dismal, but is it Science? PART 2: THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN SCIENCE 11 Science Harnessed to the Chariot of Destruction 12 A-Bombs and H-Bombs 13 Non-nuclear Technologies of Death 14 Bombers, Missiles, and Antimissiles 15 Video-Game War 16 Lethal Autonomy 17 Is Cyberwarfare Really a Thing? 18 American Exceptionalism and the Ultimate Perversion of the Behavioral Sciences PART 3: HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS… 19 The Explosive Birth of Big Science 20 Operation Paperclip: The Nazification of American Science 21 The RAND Corporation: From "Fuck You, Buddy" to Doomsday PART 4: ...AND THE ONLY WAY OUT 22 Is a Science-For-Human-Needs Possible? Acknowledgements Suggestions for Further Reading Notes
Foreword Table of Contents Epigraph Introduction PART 1: THE CORPORATIZATION OF AMERICAN SCIENCE 1 The Big Fat Lie 2 The Green Revolution 3 From Green Revolution to Gene Revolution 4 The Tobacco Strategy 5 Fraudulent Pharma 6 Spitting in the Well We Drink From 7 Atoms for Peace? 8 The Academic-Industrial Complex 9 Think Tanks and the Betrayal of Reason 10 The Dismal Science is Certainly Dismal, but is it Science? PART 2: THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN SCIENCE 11 Science Harnessed to the Chariot of Destruction 12 A-Bombs and H-Bombs 13 Non-nuclear Technologies of Death 14 Bombers, Missiles, and Antimissiles 15 Video-Game War 16 Lethal Autonomy 17 Is Cyberwarfare Really a Thing? 18 American Exceptionalism and the Ultimate Perversion of the Behavioral Sciences PART 3: HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS… 19 The Explosive Birth of Big Science 20 Operation Paperclip: The Nazification of American Science 21 The RAND Corporation: From "Fuck You, Buddy" to Doomsday PART 4: ...AND THE ONLY WAY OUT 22 Is a Science-For-Human-Needs Possible? Acknowledgements Suggestions for Further Reading Notes
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