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Responsible science : the impact of technology on society

Title
Responsible science : the impact of technology on society / Nobel Conference XXI ; Merritt Roe Smith [and others] ; edited by Kevin B. Byrne.
Author
Nobel Conference (21st : 1985 : Gustavus Adolphus College)
Publication
San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1986.

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Description
xiii, 120 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
Technology > Social aspects > Congresses
Note
  • Papers presented at the 21st Nobel Conference organized by and held at the Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, 1985.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Technology, industrialization, and the idea of progress in America / Merritt Roe Smith -- Genetic progress and religious authority / Daniel J. Kevles -- The single artificer / Salvador E. Luria -- The impact of biotechnology and the future of agriculture / Winston J. Brill -- Mechanistic mischief and the dualistic dangers in a scientific society / J. Robert Nelson.
ISBN
0062501283
LCCN
86045013
OCLC
  • 13902858
  • ocm13902858
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Columbia University Libraries