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The contributors present a coherent set of case studies of
practices, technologies and strategies aimed at the isolation,
investigation, manipulation, production, and uses of molecules
including vitamins, hormones, blood products, antibiotics, and
vaccines. These case studies examine how processes of
molecularization were set in motion in the inter-war period, how
they were used as a resource in the biomedical 'mobilization' of
World War II, and how new alliances and strategies created as part
of the war effort played a central role in the reorganisation of
biomedicine in the post-war period.
From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and
intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number
of far-reaching unity of science projects. In this period of deep
social and political divisions, scientists collaborated to unify
sciences across disciplinary boundaries and to set up the
international scientific community as a model for global political
co-operation. They strove to align scientific and social objectives
through rational planning and to promote unified science as the
driving force of human civilization and progress. This volume
explores the unity of science movement, providing a synthetic view
of its pursuits and placing it in its historical context as a
scientific and political force. Through a coherent set of original
case studies looking at the significance of various projects and
strategies of unification, the book highlights the great variety of
manifestations of this endeavour. These range from unifying nuclear
physics to the evolutionary synthesis, and from the democratization
of scientific planning to the utopianism of H.G. Wells's world
state. At the same time, the collection brings out the substantive
links between these different pursuits, especially in the form of
interconnected networks of unification and the alignment of
objectives among them. Notably, it shows that opposition to
fascism, using the instrument of unified science, became the most
urgent common goal in the 1930s and 1940s. In addressing these
issues, the book makes visible important historical developments,
showing how scientists participated in, and actively helped to
create, an interwar ideology of unification, and bringing to light
the cultural and political significance of this enterprise.
From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and
intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number
of far-reaching unity of science projects. In this period of deep
social and political divisions, scientists collaborated to unify
sciences across disciplinary boundaries and to set up the
international scientific community as a model for global political
co-operation. They strove to align scientific and social objectives
through rational planning and to promote unified science as the
driving force of human civilization and progress. This volume
explores the unity of science movement, providing a synthetic view
of its pursuits and placing it in its historical context as a
scientific and political force. Through a coherent set of original
case studies looking at the significance of various projects and
strategies of unification, the book highlights the great variety of
manifestations of this endeavour. These range from unifying nuclear
physics to the evolutionary synthesis, and from the democratization
of scientific planning to the utopianism of H.G. Wells's world
state. At the same time, the collection brings out the substantive
links between these different pursuits, especially in the form of
interconnected networks of unification and the alignment of
objectives among them. Notably, it shows that opposition to
fascism, using the instrument of unified science, became the most
urgent common goal in the 1930s and 1940s. In addressing these
issues, the book makes visible important historical developments,
showing how scientists participated in, and actively helped to
create, an interwar ideology of unification, and bringing to light
the cultural and political significance of this enterprise.
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