Author : Peter J. Kuznick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226685427
Beyond the Laboratory by Peter J. Kuznick Pdf
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.