The State of Academic Science: Background papers
Author: Bruce Lee Raymond Smith
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781412839150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bruce Lee Raymond Smith
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781412839150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bruce Lee Raymond- Smith
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781412839167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bruce L. R. Smith
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Published: 1977
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ISBN-13: 9780915390090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Samiran Nundy
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-23
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9811652481
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an open access book. The book provides an overview of the state of research in developing countries – Africa, Latin America, and Asia (especially India) and why research and publications are important in these regions. It addresses budding but struggling academics in low and middle-income countries. It is written mainly by senior colleagues who have experienced and recognized the challenges with design, documentation, and publication of health research in the developing world. The book includes short chapters providing insight into planning research at the undergraduate or postgraduate level, issues related to research ethics, and conduct of clinical trials. It also serves as a guide towards establishing a research question and research methodology. It covers important concepts such as writing a paper, the submission process, dealing with rejection and revisions, and covers additional topics such as planning lectures and presentations. The book will be useful for graduates, postgraduates, teachers as well as physicians and practitioners all over the developing world who are interested in academic medicine and wish to do medical research.
Author: Roger L. Geiger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1351493450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first study to trace this momentous development in the post-World War II period. It describes how the federal government first relied on university scientists during the war, and how the resulting relationship set the pattern for the postwar mushrooming of academic research.The first half of the book analyzes the development of the postwar system of academic research, exploring the contributions of foundations, defense agencies, and universities. The second half depicts the rise of the ""golden age"" of academic research in the years after Sputnik (1957) and its eventual dissolution at the end of the 1960s graduate education. When the federal patron soon reduced its largesse, university students took the lead in challenging the putative hegemony of academic research. The loss of consensus quickly brought the malaise of the 1970s--stagnation, frustration, and equivocation about the research role. The final chapter appraises the renaissance of the 1980s, based largely on a rapprochement with the private sector, and ends by evaluating the embattled status of research universities at the beginning of the 1990s.Research and Relevant Knowledge provides the first authoritative analytical account of American research universities during their most fateful half-century. It will be of critical importance to all those concerned with the future of higher education in the United States.
Author: United States. Office of Science and Technology Policy
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Dickson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780226147635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How science "gets done" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has become an important source of both economic and military power. The increasing dependence of scientific research on funding from business and the military has made questions about the access to and control of scientific knowledge a central issue in today's politics of science. In The New Politics of Science, David Dickson points out that "the scientific community has its own internal power structures, its elites, its hierarchies, its ideologies, its sanctioned norms of social behavior, and its dissenting groups. And the more that science, as a social practice, forms an integral part of the economic structures of the society in which it is imbedded, the more the boundaries and differences between the two dissolve. Groups inside the scientific community, for example, will use groups outside the community—and vice versa—to achieve their own political ends." In this edition, Dickson has included a new preface commenting on the continuing and increasing influence of industrial and defense interests on American scientific research in the 1980s.