Science for Welfare and Warfare: Technology and State Initiative in Cold War Sweden History of Science To show that humanities and

To show that humanities and social sciences are more and more deeply concerned with the moral dimension of their activities is the primary objective of this collection of papers

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and playwrights have speculated—sometimes wildly—about Galileo’s infamous encounter with the Roman Catholic Church

" research has entered a new phase of institutionalization

This fact is a particularly remarkable manifestation of Sweden’s postwar status as a technological power disproportionate to its size

Science for Welfare and Warfare: Technology and State Initiative in Cold War Sweden History of Science To show that humanities andLundin, Per, Niklas Stenls, and Johan Gribbe, eds., 2010, 324pp., clothbound and jacketed, illus. in black and white and color Science for welfare and warfare investigates the establishment of state led science and technology in the economic and industrial development or cold war Sweden. Written by Swedish historians, the book examines how the state gradually took on a new role during and after the second world war; how this role was justified; how it