the scientist's role and centers of learning revisited /
Liah Greenfeld, editor.
New Brunswick, NJ :
Transaction Publishers,
c2012.
xi, 227 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes index.
Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Science in a small country / Joseph Ben-David -- Astrology and science : a renaissance problem / Brendan Dooley -- Social framework of early theoretical science / Dmitri Panchenko -- Competition and quality orientation in the American, English, and German university systems / Claudius Gellert -- Organization & strategic change of public research / Mario Coccia -- Centers of learning reconsidered / Chikako Takeishi -- The autonomy of science after modernity / Yaron Ezrahi -- The crucible of human and social sciences / Nathalie Richard -- American universities and the stagnation of knowledge / Liah Greenfeld -- The sustainability movement in the American university / Peter Wood -- The university and public education / Michael Ben-Chaim -- In lieu of an epilogue: Joseph Ben-David in photographs / Miriam Ben-David -- Contributors -- Index.