No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought

No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought
ISBN-10
0801855985
ISBN-13
9780801855986
Series
No Other Gods
Category
Science
Pages
311
Language
English
Published
1997-04-25
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Charles E. Rosenberg

Description

A pioneering and influential examination of how social institutions and values shaped American scientific practice and thought. In its original edition, No Other Gods offered a pioneering and influential examination of the ways in which social institutions and values shaped American scientific practice and thought. In this revised and expanded edition, Rosenberg directs our attention to the dilemma posed by the social study of science: How can we reconcile the scientist's understanding of science as a quest for truth and knowledge with the historian's conviction that all knowledge bears the marks of the culture which gave it birth?

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