No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought - Softcover

Rosenberg, Charles E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801855985 ISBN 13: 9780801855986

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

A pioneering and influential examination of how social institutions and values shaped American scientific practice and thought.

In its original edition, No Other Gods offered a pioneering and influential examination of the ways in which social institutions and values shaped American scientific practice and thought. In this revised and expanded edition, Rosenberg directs our attention to the dilemma posed by the social study of science: How can we reconcile the scientist's understanding of science as a quest for truth and knowledge with the historian's conviction that all knowledge bears the marks of the culture which gave it birth?

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About the Author

Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866;The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.

From the Back Cover

In its original edition, No Other Gods offered a pioneering and influential examination of the ways in which social institutions and value shaped American scientific practice and thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801855985
• ISBN 13: 9780801855986
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336