ABSTRACT
More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Who Will Sort out the Hundred or More Paul Ehrlichs?
Remarks on the Historiography of Recent and Contemporary Technoscience
chapter |19 pages
Writing the History of Space Science and Technology
Multiple Audiences with Divergent Goals and Standards
chapter |17 pages
Participant Observation and the Study of Biomedical Sciences
Some Methodological Observations
chapter |30 pages
Scientists as Policymakers, Advisors, and Intelligence Agents
Linking Contemporary Diplomatic History with the History of Contemporary Science