Science in Society : Some Perspectives
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." (jacket)
