The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions

Part I. Prologue

1. Introduction
Marcel Herbst

2. Academic Organization and Scientific Productivity
Marcel Herbst

Part II. Role and Ethos

3. Ben-David’s Critique of the Sociology of Knowledge and His Politics of Freedom
Yaron Ezrahi

4. The Scientists’ Role and Medical Innovations
Ilana Löwy

5. The Ongoing Tension: Clinical Practice and Clinical Research
George Weisz

Part III. Center and Periphery

6. Faded Grandeur: Disciplinary Differentiation, Interdisciplinarity and Renewal in the German Academic System
Richard Münch

7. The Scion and Its Tree: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Its German Epistemological and Organizational Origins
Shaul Katz

Part IV. Organization and Growth

8. The Excellence of IT: Conceptions of Quality in Academic Disciplines
Andrew Abbott

9. Lessons Learned from the Study of Multi-organizational Collaborations in Science and Implications for the Role of the University in the 21st Century
Ivan Chompalov

Part V. Epilogue

10. The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David
Marcel Herbst

Keywords: Science, general, History of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, History of Medicine