In a career that included tenures as president of Stony Brook
University, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, and science
advisor to President George W. Bush, John Marburger (1941 2011)
found himself on the front line of battles that pulled science ever
deeper into the political arena. From nuclear power to global
warming and stem cell research, science controversies, he
discovered, are never just about science. Science Policy Up Close"
presents Marburger s reflections on the challenges science
administrators face in the twenty-first century.
In each phase of public service Marburger came into contact with
a new dimension of science policy. The Shoreham Commission exposed
him to the problem of handling a volatile public controversy over
nuclear power. The Superconducting Supercollider episode gave him
insights into the collision between government requirements and
scientists expectations and feelings of entitlement. The
Directorship of Brookhaven taught him how to talk to the public
about the risks of conducting high-energy physics and about large
government research facilities. As Presidential Science Advisor he
had to both represent the scientific community to the
administration and the administration to the scientific community
at a time when each side was highly suspicious of the other.
What Marburger understood before most others was this: until
the final quarter of the twentieth century, science had been
largely protected from public scrutiny and government supervision.
Today that is no longer true. Scientists and science policy makers
can learn from Marburger what they must do now to improve their
grip on their own work."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!