LEADER 04666nam 22006494a 450 001 9910816743003321 005 20240501010145.0 010 $a1-282-24003-X 010 $a9786612240034 010 $a0-226-75017-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226750170 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773770 035 $a(EBL)448586 035 $a(OCoLC)666970612 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000242361 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175649 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000242361 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10310795 035 $a(PQKB)10109616 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448586 035 $a(DE-B1597)524078 035 $a(OCoLC)1058278777 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226750170 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448586 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10317902 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL224003 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773770 100 $a20080130d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe scientific life $ea moral history of a late modern vocation /$fSteven Shapin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (488 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-75024-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index. 327 $aKnowledge 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. 330 $aWho are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts-indeed, highly respected experts-authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and widely trusted to help transform knowledge into power and profit. But are they morally different from other people? The Scientific Life is historian Steven Shapin's story about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our sensibilities about such things matter. Conventional wisdom has long held that scientists are neither better nor worse than anyone else, that personal virtue does not necessarily accompany technical expertise, and that scientific practice is profoundly impersonal. Shapin, however, here shows how the uncertainties attending scientific research make the virtues of individual researchers intrinsic to scientific work. From the early twentieth-century origins of corporate research laboratories to the high-flying scientific entrepreneurship of the present, Shapin argues that the radical uncertainties of much contemporary science have made personal virtues more central to its practice than ever before, and he also reveals how radically novel aspects of late modern science have unexpectedly deep historical roots. His elegantly conceived history of the scientific career and character ultimately encourages us to reconsider the very nature of the technical and moral worlds in which we now live. Building on the insights of Shapin's last three influential books, featuring an utterly fascinating cast of characters, and brimming with bold and original claims, The Scientific Life is essential reading for anyone wanting to reflect on late modern American culture and how it has been shaped. 606 $aScientists$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aScience$xEconomic aspects 610 $ascientists, ethics, career, profession, lifestyle, mentality, nonfiction, authority, expertise, morality, scientific research, trust, uncertainty, corporate labs, knowledge, virtue, vocation, method, truth, nature, science, industry, entrepreneur, profit motive, money, greed, ambition, success, venture capital, high-tech, technology, development, capitalism, philosophy, public opinion. 615 0$aScientists$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aScience$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a174/.95 686 $aCC 3200$2rvk 700 $aShapin$b Steven$0221759 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816743003321 996 $aThe scientific life$94107910 997 $aUNINA