Modern Science and Human Values
Title | Modern Science and Human Values PDF eBook |
Author | William W. Lowrance |
Publisher | New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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A thought-provoking discussion of the various ways in which science, technology, and medicine influence social philosophies and choices. Social attitudes, values, and ethics are analysed for their roles in decision- and policy-making. Citing case studies -- the continuing debate surrounding sociobiology, the role of peer review in formulating recombinant DNA research policy, societal guidance of medical experimentation, and the application of risk assessment to nuclear reactor safety -- Lowrance argues that society will be better served by a technical stewardship that extends beyond narrowly defined concepts of responsibility. This book will be of great interest to a wide range of medical researchers, scientists, ethicists, and lay readers.
Modern Science and Human Values
Title | Modern Science and Human Values PDF eBook |
Author | Everett Wesley Hall |
Publisher | Princeton, N.J., D. Van Nostrand Company |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Science |
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Modern Science and Human Values
Title | Modern Science and Human Values PDF eBook |
Author | Everett W. Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 483 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Science and Human Values
Title | Science and Human Values PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Bronowski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258203962 |
The Impact Of Science On Ethics And Human Values.
Science and Human Values
Title | Science and Human Values PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Bronowski |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 2011-10-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0571281257 |
Science and Human Values was originally a lecture by Jacob Bronowski at MIT in 1953. Published five years later, it opens unforgettably with Bronowski's description of Nagasaki in 1945: 'a bare waste of ashes', making him acutely aware of science's power both for good and for evil. After such knowledge, what forgiveness? With care and erudition Bronowski argues that scientific endeavour is an essentially creative act, part of a great shared human interest in ourselves and the world around us; and, routinely, a process of trial-and-error, the end of which is not - cannot be - preordained. 'Above all, Bronowski strove to make science and technology answerable to social progress, to 'human values.' He anticipated the deepening gap between the 'two cultures' and knew that the sciences must be restored to a place in political common sense.' George Steiner
The Moral Landscape
Title | The Moral Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Harris |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011-09-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 143917122X |
Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
Science and Human Values
Title | Science and Human Values PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Bronowski |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990-03-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780613141901 |
The seminal study of the effects of the scientific revolution on human psychology.