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Since the end of the 1960s there has been a clear shift in consciousness of many scientists — especially science students — of the role of science and technology in contemporary capitalism. This movement has been concentrated in the United States and Britain, the two most scientifically advanced Western countries, judged by such formal criteria as percentage of GNP spent on science, or numbers of papers published or Nobel Prizes per head of the population.
This chapter was originally written for the 1972 issue of the Socialist Register and subsequently reprinted in Science for the People. It represented the gathering together of our experiences within the scientists’ movement at that time. We reprint it here — even though our understanding of certain of the issues has sharpened during the intervening period — because it served both to fuel the necessary debate within the movement concerning its direction and theoretical needs, and also as a programmatic guide for the present book. Gary Werskey’s critical appraisal in Radical Science Journal, 2/3 (1975) must be mentioned in this regard. We have taken out or compressed some material which is covered elsewhere within the book or now seems merely past history, added some footnotes and a postscript.
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See, for example, M. Brown (ed.), The Social Responsibility of the Scientist (New York: Free Press, 1971).
S. Rose and H. Rose, in The Social Impact of Modern Biology, ed W. Fuller (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971).
See, for example, T. Roszak, The Making of A Counter-Culture (London: Faber & Faber, 1970); and such journals as Environment (United States) and Your Environment.
D. J. de Solla Price, Little Science, Big Science (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963).
H. Rose and S. Rose, Science and Society (London: Allen Lane, 1969).
N. Bukharin, et al., Science at the Crossroads (London: Cass, 1971).
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See, for example, such diverse figures as E. B. Chain, New Scientist (October 1970);
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L. R- Graham, Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union (New York: Knopf, 1972).
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H. J. Miiller, Out of the Night (New York: Vanguard, 1935).
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Cambridge Society for Social Responsibility in Science Bulletin reprinted in The Biological Basis of Behaviour, ed. N. Chalmers, R. Crawley and S. Rose (London: Harper & Row, 1971); see also the later book edited by K. Richardson and D. Spears, Race, Culture and Intelligence (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972); and the pamphlet Racism, IQ and the Class Society issued by the Campaign on Racism, IQ and the Class Society in 1974. See also The Political Economy of Science, chapter 7.
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G. Wick, New Scientist also Solidarity pamphlet, Soldier Technicians or Irresponsible Scientists (1970).
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Rose, H., Rose, S. (1976). The Radicalisation of Science. In: Rose, H., Rose, S. (eds) The Radicalisation of Science. Critical Social Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86145-3_1
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