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The scientific life [electronic resource] : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.

By: Shapin, Steven.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008Description: xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects | Science -- Economic aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 174/.95 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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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