Nils Roll-Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 302287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nils Roll-Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nils |
| FAMILY NAME | Roll-Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | ROLL-HANSEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education, The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, Wergelandsveien 15, Oslo 1, Norway. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kostas kampourakis, How we get Mendel wrong, and why it matters. Challenging the narrative of Mendelian genetics, 2024, Abingdon
The Scientist, the Impostor and Stalin
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Revisiting the Pouchet–Pasteur controversy over spontaneous generation
On the philosophical roots of today’s science policy
The current relevance of Lysenkoism
What are we to learn from the history of eugenics
Marxist roots of science studies
The Spell of the North
Lessons from the history of science
Wishful Science
The suppression of genetics in Soviet Russia was the big scandal of twentieth-century science. It was also a test case for the role of scientists in a liberal democracy. The intellectual's perennial dilemma between scientific truthfulness and political loyalty was sharpened by acute ideological conflicts. The central topic of this essay is how the conflict was played out in Soviet agricultural and biological science in the 1930s and 1940s. The ac…
Plant Breeding on the Front
This paper examines the development of plant-breeding science in the context of the booming genetic research and autarky policy of the 1930s as well as during World War II in National Socialist-occupied Europe. Soviet scientists, especially Nikolai Vavilov and his VIR institute, had a leading position in the international plant-breeding science of the 1920s. During World War II, German scientists, namely experts from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute …
Untangling the McClintock myths
Eugenic Practice and Genetic Science in Scandinavia and Germany
L'article reproduit une analyse des effets et de l'interaction entre la genetique et les pratiques eugeniques telles que constatees en Scandinavie et Allemagne au cours du 20e siecle. L'auteur commente ensuite les arguments avances lors d'une analyse comparative de la sterilisation eugenique en Suede et Allemagne
Eugenics in Scandinavia After 1945
L'auteur etablit une comparaison de l'eugenisme en Allemagne et en Scandinavie afin de degager une conception distincte de la notion d'eugenisme et de son histoire
Pasteur
Medizin und Wissenschaftstheorie
Explaining Scientific Consensus
The role of theory in experimental life
Science, Politics, and the Mass Media
When environmental science acts by enlightenment rather than instrumental use, that is, by changing the aims and values of politics rather than its means, adequate communi cation to the general public is crucially important. Based on the study of two issues, forest death from acid rain and the size of whale stocks, this article shows how the "constraints" of commercial mass media can be contrary to the task of enlightenment. It is also argued tha…
The Practice Criterion and the Rise of Lysenkoism
Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia
Two questions will receive special attention in this account, namely the political location of eugenics and the role of genetic science in its development. I will show that moderate eugenic policies had broad political support. For instance, the Scandinavian sterilization laws which were introduced in the 1930s were supported by the Social Democratic Parties, who were partly in position of government. I will argue that the effect of genetic resea…
Race Hygiene and National Efficiency
The Progress of Eugenics
Empirical Studies or Philosophy? (Reply to Barnes and Collins)
One can either debate the possibility of the sociology of scientific knowledge or one can do it', wrote Steven Shapin in a recent paper.' This dichotomy is hardly to be taken literally. Shapin would presumably agree that one has to do both. But I think the emphasis that the Edinburgh school Shapin, Barnes, MacKenzie and other relativists, like Collins, have put on empirical studies, on doing sociology of scientific knowledge, is a good thing. How…
The Death of Spontaneous Generation and the Birth of the Gene
Relativists in the history and sociology of science have recently claimed that whatever the status of the philosophical debate, their empirical programme is very successful: relativistic case studies meet little criticism on the empirical level. In this paper I try to redress the balance, a little, by repeating and elaborating some objections to two cases which relativists have frequently used to support their general claims about the nature of s…
The controversy between biometricions and Mendelions
The Death of Spontaneous Generation and the Birth of the Gene
Relativists in the history and sociology of science have recently claimed that whatever the status of the philosophical debate, their empirical programme is very successful: relativistic case studies meet little criticism on the empirical level. In this paper I try to redress the balance, a little, by repeating and elaborating some objections to two cases which relativists have frequently used to support their general claims about the nature of s…
Experimental Method and Spontaneous Generation
Experimental Method and Spontaneous Generation: The Controversy between Pasteur and Pouchet, 1859–64 Get access NILS ROLL-HANSEN NILS ROLL-HANSEN Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education, The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the HumanitiesOslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, July 1979, Pages 273–29…
Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia
Two questions will receive special attention in this account, namely the political location of eugenics and the role of genetic science in its development. I will show that moderate eugenic policies had broad political support. For instance, the Scandinavian sterilization laws which were introduced in the 1930s were supported by the Social Democratic Parties, who were partly in position of government. I will argue that the effect of genetic resea…
Science, Politics, and the Mass Media
When environmental science acts by enlightenment rather than instrumental use, that is, by changing the aims and values of politics rather than its means, adequate communi cation to the general public is crucially important. Based on the study of two issues, forest death from acid rain and the size of whale stocks, this article shows how the "constraints" of commercial mass media can be contrary to the task of enlightenment. It is also argued tha…
Wishful Science
The suppression of genetics in Soviet Russia was the big scandal of twentieth-century science. It was also a test case for the role of scientists in a liberal democracy. The intellectual's perennial dilemma between scientific truthfulness and political loyalty was sharpened by acute ideological conflicts. The central topic of this essay is how the conflict was played out in Soviet agricultural and biological science in the 1930s and 1940s. The ac…
Revisiting the Pouchet–Pasteur controversy over spontaneous generation
Eugenic Practice and Genetic Science in Scandinavia and Germany
L'article reproduit une analyse des effets et de l'interaction entre la genetique et les pratiques eugeniques telles que constatees en Scandinavie et Allemagne au cours du 20e siecle. L'auteur commente ensuite les arguments avances lors d'une analyse comparative de la sterilisation eugenique en Suede et Allemagne
Eugenics in Scandinavia After 1945
L'auteur etablit une comparaison de l'eugenisme en Allemagne et en Scandinavie afin de degager une conception distincte de la notion d'eugenisme et de son histoire
The Progress of Eugenics
On the reduction of biology to physical science
On the reduction of biology to physical science
Louis Pasteur—a Case Against Reductionist Historiography
Experimental Method and Spontaneous Generation
Experimental Method and Spontaneous Generation: The Controversy between Pasteur and Pouchet, 1859–64 Get access NILS ROLL-HANSEN NILS ROLL-HANSEN Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education, The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the HumanitiesOslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, July 1979, Pages 273–29…
The controversy between biometricions and Mendelions
The Death of Spontaneous Generation and the Birth of the Gene
Relativists in the history and sociology of science have recently claimed that whatever the status of the philosophical debate, their empirical programme is very successful: relativistic case studies meet little criticism on the empirical level. In this paper I try to redress the balance, a little, by repeating and elaborating some objections to two cases which relativists have frequently used to support their general claims about the nature of s…
Empirical Studies or Philosophy? (Reply to Barnes and Collins)
One can either debate the possibility of the sociology of scientific knowledge or one can do it', wrote Steven Shapin in a recent paper.' This dichotomy is hardly to be taken literally. Shapin would presumably agree that one has to do both. But I think the emphasis that the Edinburgh school Shapin, Barnes, MacKenzie and other relativists, like Collins, have put on empirical studies, on doing sociology of scientific knowledge, is a good thing. How…
The Progress of Eugenics
The Practice Criterion and the Rise of Lysenkoism
Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia
Two questions will receive special attention in this account, namely the political location of eugenics and the role of genetic science in its development. I will show that moderate eugenic policies had broad political support. For instance, the Scandinavian sterilization laws which were introduced in the 1930s were supported by the Social Democratic Parties, who were partly in position of government. I will argue that the effect of genetic resea…
Race Hygiene and National Efficiency
Science, Politics, and the Mass Media
When environmental science acts by enlightenment rather than instrumental use, that is, by changing the aims and values of politics rather than its means, adequate communi cation to the general public is crucially important. Based on the study of two issues, forest death from acid rain and the size of whale stocks, this article shows how the "constraints" of commercial mass media can be contrary to the task of enlightenment. It is also argued tha…
Explaining Scientific Consensus
The role of theory in experimental life
Medizin und Wissenschaftstheorie
Pasteur
Eugenics in Scandinavia After 1945
L'auteur etablit une comparaison de l'eugenisme en Allemagne et en Scandinavie afin de degager une conception distincte de la notion d'eugenisme et de son histoire
Eugenic Practice and Genetic Science in Scandinavia and Germany
L'article reproduit une analyse des effets et de l'interaction entre la genetique et les pratiques eugeniques telles que constatees en Scandinavie et Allemagne au cours du 20e siecle. L'auteur commente ensuite les arguments avances lors d'une analyse comparative de la sterilisation eugenique en Suede et Allemagne
Untangling the McClintock myths
Plant Breeding on the Front
This paper examines the development of plant-breeding science in the context of the booming genetic research and autarky policy of the 1930s as well as during World War II in National Socialist-occupied Europe. Soviet scientists, especially Nikolai Vavilov and his VIR institute, had a leading position in the international plant-breeding science of the 1920s. During World War II, German scientists, namely experts from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute …
Wishful Science
The suppression of genetics in Soviet Russia was the big scandal of twentieth-century science. It was also a test case for the role of scientists in a liberal democracy. The intellectual's perennial dilemma between scientific truthfulness and political loyalty was sharpened by acute ideological conflicts. The central topic of this essay is how the conflict was played out in Soviet agricultural and biological science in the 1930s and 1940s. The ac…
The Spell of the North
Lessons from the history of science
Marxist roots of science studies
The current relevance of Lysenkoism
What are we to learn from the history of eugenics
Philosophy (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Biology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy of science (8 works) · Law (7 works)