Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
University of Chicago Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-226-46583-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-46584-5
Library of Congress Classification Q175.52.U5K89 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.0885
Cloth: 978-0-226-46583-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-46584-5
Library of Congress Classification Q175.52.U5K89 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.0885
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The debate over scientists' social responsibility is a topic of great controversy today. Peter J. Kuznick here traces the origin of that debate to the 1930s and places it in a context that forces a reevaluation of the relationship between science and politics in twentieth-century America. Kuznick reveals how an influential segment of the American scientific community during the Depression era underwent a profound transformation in its social values and political beliefs, replacing a once-pervasive conservatism and antipathy to political involvement with a new ethic of social reform.
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