Beyond the Laboratory : Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America

Beyond the Laboratory : Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 328 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780226465838
  • DDC分類 320.0885

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1987. Traces the origin of that debate of the 1930s and places it in a context that forces a reevaluation of the relationship between science and politics in twentieth-century America.

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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.