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

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.Description: xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226750248 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226750248 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335.423 SHA 2008 22
LOC classification:
  • Q180.55.M67 S53 2008
Online resources:
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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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.

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