The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation /
Shapin, Steven.
The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008. - xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index.
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.
9780226750248 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226750248 (pbk.)
2008004588
GBA895752 bnb
014685314 Uk
Scientists--Moral and ethical aspects.
Science--Economic aspects.
Q180.55.M67 / S53 2008
335.423 SHA 2008
The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008. - xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index.
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.
9780226750248 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226750248 (pbk.)
2008004588
GBA895752 bnb
014685314 Uk
Scientists--Moral and ethical aspects.
Science--Economic aspects.
Q180.55.M67 / S53 2008
335.423 SHA 2008