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Science in Society : Some Perspectives
Published by Gyan Pub, 1993
ISBN 10: 8121204585ISBN 13: 9788121204583
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Acknowledgements. I. Introduction 1. Science in society an introduction/Yash Pal. II. Science symmetry and spirituality 2. The physics astronomy connection at the most fundamental level/B.V. Sreekantan. 3. Symmetry asymmetry beauty and science/Pushpa M. Bhargava and Chandana Chakrabarti. 4. The symphony of symmetries/K. Babu Joseph. III. Science education and science in education 5. Education through astronomy/Jayant V. Narlikar. 6. Inter university centres and undergraduate science education/V.G. Bhide. 7. Programmes of excellence and equity in science education in the university system/S.K. Khanna. 8. Education within the framework of people's science movement/Vinod Raina. 9. Information support for scientific research evolving a national information transfer system/T.B. Rajashekar. IV. Science Peace and Society 10. Science peace and development/Rais Ahmed. 11. Science society government and politics some remarks on the ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru/Obaid Siddiqi. 12. Science and peace/Y.S. Rajan. V. Challenge in science some examples 13. Recent developments in earthquake prediction/Harsh K. Gupta. 14. Monoclonal antibodies and abzymes off the bottle/D. Balasubramanian. 15. To be or not to be challenge of tomorrow and of today/M.P. Parameswaran. VI. Intellectual property rights and development 16. Intellectual property rights and technical change in follower countries/Amiya Kumar Bagchi. 17. Patent laws the Indian experience/Nitya Anand. VII. Alternative paradigms of development 18. Technology estrangement and enlargement/D.P. Chattopadhyaya. 19. Biotechnology and ecological security/M.S. Swaminathan. 20. Non alignment self reliance and innovations/Ashok Parthasarathi. 21. Sustainability and the energy picture India/C.V. Seshadri. 22. Towards alternative paradigms of development/V. Sudarsen. 23. Science and technology in society diversity the central theme/Ashok Jain. Index. Science in Society Some Perspectives containing twenty three articles views science as an integral part of social activity and not as an alienated sub culture. A distinctive contribution of the book lies in bringing together distinguished specialists from areas as diverse as physics earth science philosophy economics law information science science policy agriculture and modern biology. 406 pp.
