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• Title:The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Shapin, Steven.
  
• Published/Created:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Q180.55.M67 S45 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: Q180.55.M67 S45 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Scientists--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Science--Economic aspects.
  
• Description:xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-439) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780226750248 (cloth)
  0226750248 (cloth)
  
• Contents:1. Knowledge and virtue : the way we live now
  2. From calling to job : nature, truth, method, and vocation from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
  3. moral equivalence of the scientist : a history of the very idea
  4. Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the tower
  5. Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the managers
  6. scientist and the civic virtues : the moral life of organized science
  7. scientific entrepreneur : money, motives, and the place of virtue
  8. Visions of the future : uncertainty and virtue in the world of high-tech and venture capital
  way we live now : epilogue.