1. Joseph Ben-David, 1920–1986

   • E. S.

   Foreword Pages: 1 - 2

2. Scientific productivity and international integration of small countries: Mathematics in Denmark and Israel

   • Thomas Schøtt

   Articles Pages: 3 - 20

3. Scientism at the end of the old regime: Reflections on a theme of Professor Charles Gillispie

   • Keith Michael Baker

   Articles Pages: 21 - 34

4. The statistician's role in society: The institutional establishment of statistics in France

   • Bernard -Pierre Lécuyer

   Articles Pages: 35 - 55

5. The great transition and the social patterns of German science

   • R. Steven Turner

   Articles Pages: 56 - 76

6. The classical sociology of knowledge and beyond

   • S. N. Eisenstadt

   Articles Pages: 77 - 91

7. The problem of “problem choice”

   • J. M. Ziman

   Articles Pages: 92 - 106

8. Science and National greatness in seventeenth-century England

   • Liah Greenfeld

   Articles Pages: 107 - 122

9. Trust in science

   • Bernard Barber

   Articles Pages: 123 - 134

10. Joseph Ben-David's sociology of scientific knowledge

    • Gad Freudenthal

    Articles Pages: 135 - 149

11. The medical elite in France in the early nineteenth century

    • George Weisz

    Articles Pages: 150 - 170

12. The impact of medical practice on biomedical research: The case of human leucocyte antigens studies

    • Ilana Löwy

    Articles Pages: 171 - 200

13. Joseph Ben-David: A memoir

    • Edward Shils

    Articles Pages: 201 - 205