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Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

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ISBN-10: 0226750256

ISBN-13: 9780226750255

Edition: 2010

Authors: Steven Shapin

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 486
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.09" long x 1.16" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Preface
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index