The scientific life a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.

Author/creator Shapin, Steven
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press,
Descriptionxvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008004588
ISBN9780226750248 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226750248 (pbk.)

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