The scientific life a moral history of a late modern vocation / [electronic resource] :
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Scientists--Moral and ethical aspects. Science--Economic aspects.