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Book Review
Comparative/World
| Mark Walker, editor. Science and Ideology: A Comparative History. (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.) New York: Routledge. 2003. Pp. xv, 267.
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| This is a compact book with an ambitious goal: to present a comparative history of ideology and science. Typically, scholars studying the interaction of ideology and science during the twentieth century have focused on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The editor of the volume, Mark Walker, a historian of National Socialist Germany, wished to go beyond these examples and therefore assembled a large group of scholars spanning the fields of American, Japanese, French, German, Chinese, and Soviet science. Rather than organize chapters according to discrete geographical regions or just compare two countries, Walker assigned from two to four collaborators to each of the nine chapters in the book comparing a number of countries. |
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