Andersen Casper, Bek-Thomsen Jakob, Kjoergaard Peter C
Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7, Building 1465, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.
Isis. 2012 Jun;103(2):310-5. doi: 10.1086/666357.
Money is everywhere in science. Yet historians have only rarely placed the money trail at the center of their analyses. The essays in this Focus section demonstrate that following the money offers a historiographical path for investigating a number of key issues across disciplinary boundaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on cases and materials relating to a number of scientific fields, including electrical engineering, aeronautics, agriculture, and paleontology, the essays examine the continuous role of money in industrial and military patronage, personal connections and networks, and spatial and geographical dimensions of science, as well as in relation to state funding and ownership. Together, the contributions demonstrate how following the money offers a way of overcoming hyperprofessionalism in the history of science.
在科学领域，金钱无处不在。然而，历史学家很少将资金流向置于其分析的核心。本聚焦板块中的文章表明，追踪资金流向为研究19世纪和20世纪跨学科的一些关键问题提供了一条史学路径。这些文章借鉴了与包括电气工程、航空航天、农业和古生物学在内的多个科学领域相关的案例和材料，探讨了金钱在工业和军事赞助、人际关系和网络、科学的空间和地理维度，以及与国家资助和所有权方面所持续发挥的作用。这些文章共同表明，追踪资金流向如何为克服科学史研究中的过度专业化提供了一种方法。
