Science in the Federal Government

A History of Policies and Activities

By: A. Hunter Dupree

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Paperback | 14 October 1986 | Edition Number 2

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Now returned to print with a new preface by the author. Science in the Federal Government remains one of the finest and most comprehensive surveys of the history of American science. A. Hunter Dupree traces the evolution of the relationship bewteen government and science, emphasizing the continuous debate over the form, implementation, even the desirability of national science policy.

From the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the onset of World War II, Dupress shows, federal involvement in science centered on key national interests-geographical exploration and expansion, agriculture and conservation, medicine and public health, industry and the military. Dupree examines the roles and the impact of significant individuals and such institutions as the Smithsonian, the Geological Survey, the national Academy of Sciences, and the National institutes of Health. In an extensive new preface, he discusses developments through the 1980s, paying special attention to the expansion of government-university partnership in the warek of Sputnik.

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""The qualities that made Science in the Federal Government exemplary in 1957 still do so today. The book demonstrates that the history of science can be done as an integral part of political and social history, that the history of institutions need not be narrow and dull if it includes the human dimension of personalities and elites and social relationships. It succeeds admirably in treating technical aspects of science without letting them dominate the central organizational and human themes. Dupree's achievement has been and still is reassuring and inspiring.""

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Preface	p. vii
Preface to the First Edition	p. xix
First Attempts to Form a Policy, 1787-1800	p. 1
Theory and Action in the Jeffersonian Era, 1800-1829	p. 20
Practical Achievements in the Age of the Common Man, 1829-1842	p. 44
The Fulfillment of Smithson's Will, 1829-1861	p. 66
The Great Explorations and Surveys, 1842-1861	p. 91
Bache and the Quest for a Central Scientific Organization, 1851-1861	p. 115
The Civil War, 1861-1865	p. 120
The Evolution of Research in Agriculture, 1862-1916	p. 149
The Decline of Science in the Military Services, 1865-1890	p. 184
The Geological Survey, 1867-1885	p. 195
The Allison Commission and the Department of Science, 1884-1886	p. 215
Conservation, 1865-1916	p. 232
Medicine and Public Health, 1865-1916	p. 256
The Completion of the Federal Scientific Establishment, 1900-1916	p. 271
Patterns of Government Research in Modern America, 1865-1916	p. 289
The Impact of World War I, 1914-1918	p. 302
Transition to a Business Era, 1919-1929	p. 326
The Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939	p. 344
Prospect and Retrospect at the Beginning of a New Era, 1940	p. 369
Chronology	p. 383
Bibliographic Note	p. 387
References	p. 395
Index	p. 443
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