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The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation /

"In this brilliant book Shapin takes us from celebration and criticism to description and understanding of one of the most important phenomena of the twentieth century-the creation of technical novelties. Richly paradoxical and entertaining, The Scientific Life contrasts the evidence-free moral...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shapin, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.