Chapter 1 Margaret Gowing: An Appreciation

Chapter 2 Science and Government: John Phillips (1800–74) and the Early Ordnance Geological Survey of Britain

Chapter 3 Science and the Public Good: George Biddell Airy (1801–92) and the Concept of a Scientific Civil Servant

Chapter 4 The Road to Albertopolis: Richard Owen (1804–92) and the Founding of the British Museum of Natural History

Chapter 5 Sonar, Wireless Telegraphy and the Royal Navy: Scientific Development in a Military Context, 1890–1939

Chapter 6 The Rockefeller Foundation and German Biomedical Sciences, 1920–40: from Educational Philanthropy to International Science Policy

Chapter 7 Science and Power in the Soviet Union

Chapter 8 Forty Years into the Atomic Age

Chapter 9 Radiation, Language and Logic

Chapter 10 Labour and the Origins of the National Health Service

Chapter 11 Economists and Engineers

Chapter 12 Public History in the United States: a Retrospective Appraisal