Overview
Offers an examination of Big Science from the Cold War era, and military-industrial complex laboratories, to the present economically driven organizations
Provides an ambitious conceptual framework for the study of contemporary Big Science
Provokes interdisciplinary discussions about the role of science in society
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Big Science Transformed shows how these projects, popularly called 'Big Science', have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding science, and their impact on a number of new accelerator and reactor-based facilities that have come to prominence in materials science and the life sciences. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will be of great interest to historians, sociologists and philosophers of science.
Reviews
‘Big Science Transformed relies on a number of well-researched cases and contexts to show how Big Science has changed over the past decades resulting in new types of facilities built to satisfy new demands. Although the processes dissected in Hallonsten’s innovative analyses are complex and heterogeneous, he manages to put them in a coherent theoretical framework, thus staking out a whole new and intriguing direction for studies of Big Science.’
Thomas Kaiserfeld, Professor of History of Ideas and Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
In this remarkable book Hallonsten analyzes the changing role of Big Science from military applications to the grand challenges in today’s society, and from the transition of accelerators for particle collisions to those dedicated for neutron and x-ray research. This is a scholarly book that every researcher in the field will benefit from but it also offers stimulating reading for non-experts about the role of Big Science in our daily life.
Ingolf Lindau, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, USA, and Lund University, Sweden
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Big Science Transformed
Book Subtitle: Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States
Authors: Olof Hallonsten
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32738-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32737-2Published: 26 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81358-5Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32738-9Published: 15 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 310
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Knowledge - Discourse, Philosophy of Science, Popular Science, general, Sociology of Work, History of Science