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The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation
- Title
- The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.
- Author
- Shapin, Steven.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 08-6573 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 468 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index.
- Contents
- Knowledge and virtue : the way we live now -- From calling to job : nature, truth, method, and vocation from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries -- The moral equivalence of the scientist : a history of the very idea -- Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the tower -- Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the managers -- The scientist and the civic virtues : the moral life of organized science -- The scientific entrepreneur : money, motives, and the place of virtue -- Visions of the future : uncertainty and virtue in the world of high-tech and venture capital -- The way we live now : epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-6573
- ISBN
- 9780226750248 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226750248 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008004588
- OCLC
- 191763354
- Author
- Shapin, Steven.
- Title
- The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-6573