Science and Society in Southern Africa

Autor: Nancy Jacobs, Saul Dubow
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: African Studies Review. 45:159
ISSN: 0002-0206
DOI: 10.2307/1515147
Popis: Field sciences in scientific fields - entomology, botany and the early ethnographic monograph in the work of H.A. Junod, Patrick Harries making canes credible in colonial Mauritius, William K. Storey a commonwealth of science - the British Association in South Africa, 1905 and 1929, Saul Dubow "for the public benefit" - livestock statistics and expertise in the late-19th century Cape colony, Dawn Nell a mania for measurement -statistics and statecraft in the transition to apartheid, Deborah Posel police dogs and state rationality in early 20th-century South Africa, Keith Shear the race welfare society - eugenics and birth control in Johannesburg, 1930 to 1940, Susanne Klausen doctors and the state - George Gale and South Africa's experiment in social medicine, Shula Marks technical development and the human factor - sciences of development in Rhodesia's Native Affairs Department, Jocelyn Alexander.
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