Book ID: CBB000072427

No other gods: On science and American social thought. Revised and expanded edition (1997)

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Rosenberg, Charles E. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xxii + 311 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: 1. The bitter fruit: Heredity, disease, and social thought. 2. The female animal: Medical and biological views of women. 3. Sexuality, class, and role. 4. Charles Benedict Davenport and the irony of American eugenics. 5. George M. Beard and American nervousness. 6. Piety and social action: Some origins of the American public health movement. 7. Martin Arrowsmith: The scientist as hero. 8. Science and social values in 19th-century America: A case study in the growth of scientific institutions. 9. Science, technology, and economic growth: The case of the Argricultural Experiment Station scientists, 1875-1914. 10. The Adams Act: Politics and the cause of scientific research. 11. Unintended consequences: The ideological shaping of American agricultural research, 1875-1914. 12. Science pure and science applied: Two studies in the social origin of scientific research. 13. The social environment of scientific innovation: Factors in the development of genetics in the United States. 14. Toward an ecology of knowledge: On discipline, context, and history. 15. Woods or trees? Ideas and actors in the history of science.


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Review Brieger, G. H. (2000) Review of "No other gods: On science and American social thought. Revised and expanded edition". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 185). unapi

Review Pandora, K. (1998) Review of "No other gods: On science and American social thought. Revised and expanded edition". American Scientist (p. 300). unapi

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