Essay Review: A Socialized History of Science: Science as Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society,Science,Technology and the Military,Scientific Knowledge Socialized

Forman Paul , “Behind quantum electronics: National security as basis for physical research in the United States, 1940–1960”, Historical studies in the physical and biological sciences, xviii (1987), 149–229. See also Dickson David , The new politics of science (2nd edn, University of Chicago Press, London, 1988).

King Michael , “Reason, tradition and the progressiveness of science”, History and theory, x (1971), 3–32.

Hübner Kurt , Critique of scientific reason (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1983), 75, 105–15 and 227.

See for example Mumford Lewis , The myth of the machine: The pentagon of power (Harcourt Brace, New York, 1970); Melman Seymour , “Swords into plowshares: Converting from military to civilian production”, Technology review, lxxxix (1986), 62–71; also Forman , op. cit. (ref. 1).

Park Robert , “Human migration and the marginal man”, American journal of sociology, xxxiii (1928), 881–92; Stonequist Everett , The marginal man: A study in personality and cultural conflict (2nd edn, Russell & Russell, London, 1961); Hoch P. K. , “Migration and the generation of new scientific ideas”, Minerva, xxv (1987), 209–37.

Fuller Steve , Social epistemology (University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, 1987).

Lakatos Imre , “The role of crucial experiments in science”, Studies in history and philosophy of science, iv (1974), 309–25, p. 321; Laudan Larry , Progress and its problems (Routledge, London, 1977), 130. See also my review of Scrutinizing science, ed. by Donovan A.L. and Laudan R. , History of science, xxviii (1990), 211–19.

Barnes Barry , “Social life as bootstrapped induction”, Sociology, xvii (1985), 524–45; Bloor David , “The living foundations of mathematics”, Social studies of science, xvii (1987), 337–58. I am obliged to Dr Bloor for informing me of this important debate.

Latour Bruno , “Give me a laboratory, I will raise the world”, in Science observed, ed. by Knorr-Cetina Karin and Mulkay Michael (Sage, London, 1983), 141–70, pp. 144ff.