University and Military Research : : Moral Politics at M.I.T. / / Dorothy Nelkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Nelkin, Dorothy,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Science, Technology, and Society Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 8 tables

The events leading up to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's decision to divest the controversial Instrumentation Laboratory are vividly set forth in this engrossing case study. The decision, announced on May 20, 1970, followed a year of efforts to cope with dissent focused on the issue of weapons-related research on campus. Several key issues are illuminated in the narrative: the problems of defining appropriate research and public service policy in universities; the social responsibility of scientists and engineers; and the complicated relationship between government sponsorship and university research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Introduction -- I. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- II. Ménage à Trois: The University, Federal Support, and the Instrumentation Laboratory -- III. First Strike: The Research Stowage on March 4, 1969 -- IV. Reconnaissance: The Pounds Panel -- V. Accommodations and Negotiations -- VI. Student Offensive: Confrontation and Crisis -- VII. The Decision to Divest -- VIII. Universities and the Ethic of Responsibility -- Appendix I. Contrasting Assumptions of C. S. Draper and the Activists -- Appendix II. Statement by President Howard W. Johnson on the Special Laboratories, October 22, 1969 -- Appendix II./ Statement by President Howard W. Johnson on the Special Laboratories, May 20, 1970 -- A Note on the Program on Science, Technology, and Society -- Abbreviations -- Index