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

By:

Shapin, Steven

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780226750255

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DDC classification:

174.95 SHA 22

LOC classification:

Q180.55.M67 S53 2008

Online resources:

Table of contents only

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.

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Item type	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	ATREE Library General Stacks	174.95 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3343

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index.

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