Time, money, and history |
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| Authors: | Edgerton David |
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| Institution: | Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, Great Britain. |
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| Abstract: | This essay argues that taking the economy seriously in histories of science could not only extend the range of activities studied but also change--often quite radically--our understanding of well-known cases and instances in twentieth-century science. It shows how scientific intellectuals and historians of science have followed the money as a means of critique of particular forms of science and of particular conceptions of science. It suggests the need to go further, to a much broader implicit definition of what constitutes science--one that implies a criticism of much history of twentieth-century science for defining it implicitly and inappropriately in very restrictive ways. |
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