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 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
History
1 online resource (xvii, 468 pages) : illustrations, portraits
9780226750170, 9786612240034, 0226750175, 6612240032
666970612
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
English