The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.Description: xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780226750255
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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 ninetee nth centuries -- The moral equivalence of the scientist : a history of the very idea -- Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the t ower -- Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the managers - - The scientist and the civic virtues : the moral life of organized sci ence -- The scientific entrepreneur : money, motives, and the place of virtue -- Visions of the future : uncertainty and virtue in the world o f high-tech and venture capital -- The way we live now : epilogue.
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