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" The scientific life : "
Steven Shapin
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BL
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625389
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Shapin, Steven
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| Title & Author
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The scientific life : : a moral history of a late modern vocation /\ Steven Shapin
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, c2008
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xvii, 468 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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9780226750248 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226750248 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index
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| Contents
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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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Scientists-- Moral and ethical aspects
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Science-- Economic aspects
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| Dewey Classification
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174/.95
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Q180.55.M67S53 2008
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