Japanese science : from the inside /
Samuel Coleman.
- xv, 214 pages : illustrations ;
- Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ; .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-206) and index.
The university status quo -- A government research institute -- The Protein Engineering Research Institute -- The Osaka Bioscience Institute and new career patterns -- OBI as window on the scientist-government relationship -- Gender -- The obstacles to change -- The unique and the particular
"This new ethnographic study of Japan's scientists looks firsthand at the career structures and organizational issues that have hampered their advancement. It provides and analysis of the problem of career mobility in science, the status quo in laboratories, as well as the problems encountered by women scientists"--Publisher description