The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation /
"In this brilliant book Shapin takes us from celebration and criticism to description and understanding of one of the most important phenomena of the twentieth century-the creation of technical novelties. Richly paradoxical and entertaining, The Scientific Life contrasts the evidence-free moral...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago . :
University of Chicago Press,
c2008
Chicago : 2008 Chicago : 2010, c2008 Chicago : c2008 Chicago : ©2008 Chicago : [2008] |
| Edition: | Paperback ed |
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| Summary: | "In this brilliant book Shapin takes us from celebration and criticism to description and understanding of one of the most important phenomena of the twentieth century-the creation of technical novelties. Richly paradoxical and entertaining, The Scientific Life contrasts the evidence-free moralizing of the cultural critics and early sociologists of science with the often insightful analyses of the despised industrial researchers. He shows that when adequately described the worlds of technoscientific research and venture capital are not the soulless, routinized, bureaucratic antithesis of the academic ideal, but ones where the necessary uncertainties of innovation are dealt with using face-time, trust, charisma, and even proverbs, things our narratives mistakenly consign to a pre-modern era. This is a book where the doers get their due and the contemplators their comeuppance; where the quotidian is richer than the transcendent."--David Edgerton, author of The Shock of the Old -- Book jacket |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xvii, 468 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm xvii, 468 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm xvii, 468 p.; ill. ; 24 cm xvii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm xvii, 468 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-439) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-439) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0226750248 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226750248 (pbk.) 0226750248 0226750256 (pbk.) 0226750256 9780226750248 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226750248 9780226750255 (pbk.) 9780226750255 |