Research Catalog

Title

Between science and values / Loren R. Graham.

Author

Graham, Loren R.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, 1981.

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Details

Description

x, 449 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description.

Subject

• Science > Social aspects
• Science > History
• Science > Philosophy
• Social values
• Social values
• Science
• Science > Philosophy
• Science > Social aspects
• Wertwandel
• Wissenschaftsentwicklung
• Wissenschaftssoziologie
• Natuurwetenschappen
• Ethiek
• Science > history
• Social Values

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [415]-439.

Contents

pt. 1. The physical sciences: Physical knowledge and values: The new physics -- Physical knowledge and society: Eddington and the English-speaking world ; Fock and the Soviet Union ; Heisenberg and Germany ; Bergson, Monod, and France -- pt. 2. The biological sciences: Biological knowledge and values: Studying animals to learn about man ; Primatology and sociobiology -- Biological knowledge and society: Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ; Biomedical ethics -- pt. 3. Reactions to the dilemma of science and values: Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry -- Attempts to provide a philosophical overview -- pt. 4. What kind of expansionism do we want?: Science and values: attempts at historical understanding.

ISBN

• 0231051921
• 9780231051927
• 023105193X
• 9780231051934

LCCN

81004436

OCLC

• ocm07307240
• 7307240
• SCSB-52113

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library