Alan I. Marcus

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Technical Knowledge in American Culture addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture, society, and era. These essays challenge the social impact model by looking at science, technology, and medicine not as social activities but as intellectual activities.

"Completing a comprehensive history of America's land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Science as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries"--