cam a22 4500 530024187 CHVBK 20201023115105.0 181022s2010 xxu||||| |||| 00 |eng d 0-226-75024-8 (cloth 0-226-75025-6 pbk. 978-0-226-75024-8 (cloth 978-0-226-75025-5 pbk. (RERO)R008856148 CGU eng YDXCP BDX LEAUB OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCA RERO neueth Q180.55.M67 S53 2010 s1hg rero 174.95 20 Shapin Steven (IDREF)028794427 cre The scientific life a moral history of a late modern vocation Steven Shapin Chicago University of Chicago Press 2010 xvii, 468 p. ill., portraits 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-439) and index 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 "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 Science Economic aspects Scientists Moral and ethical aspects Science ethics Ethics, Professional Science economics Science history Social Responsibility Virtues Sciences (RERO)A021002713 rero Vertus (RERO)A021008872 rero Déontologie (RERO)A021065376 rero Scientifiques (RERO)A021001831 rero Histoire (RERO)A021003248 rero BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 RERO RE31011 RE31011 RE310110001 NET Gm 2438 RERO 100 1- Shapin Steven (IDREF)028794427 cre SWISSBIB 270256121