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No other gods : on science and American social thought

Title: No other gods : on science and American social thought / Charles E. Rosenberg.
Author: Rosenberg, Charles E.
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1976.

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xiii, 273 pages; 24 cm

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Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 263-267.

Contents

Introduction: Science, society, and social thought. pt. 1. Science, authority, and the logic of social explanation. ch. 1. The bitter fruit: heredity, disease, and social thought -- ch. 2. The female animal: medical and biological views of women -- ch. 3. Sexuality, class, and role -- ch. 4. Charles Benedict Davenport and the irony of American eugenics -- ch. 5. George M. Beard and American nervousness -- ch. 6. Piety and social action: some origins of the American public health movement -- ch. 7. Martin Arrowsmith: the scientist as hero -- pt. 2. Institutional forms and social values. ch. 8. Science and social values in nineteenth-century America: a case study in the growth of scientific institutions -- ch. 9. Science, technology, and economic growth: the case of the agricultural experiment station scientist, 1875-1914 -- ch. 10. The Adams Act: politics and the cause of scientific research -- ch. 11. Science pure and science applied: two studies in the social origin of scientific research -- ch. 12. The social environment of scientific innovation: factors in the development of genetics in the United States.

ISBN

0801817110
9780801817113
0801820979
9780801820977

LCCN

75036942

OCLC

ocm01945416
1945416
SCSB-112261

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Princeton University Library