Booms, Busts, and the World of Ideas: Enrollment Pressures and the Challenge of Specialization

Historians of recent science face a daunting challenge of scale. Local case studies—our principal means of interrogating past scientific practices—fail to capture the sweep and texture of some of the most dramatic changes in scientific life since World War II. During that period, most facets of rese...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaiser, David I.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82938
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-6744