Value-free science?
Subtitle: purity and power in modern knowledge
By: Robert N. Proctor.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects.; Science -- Philosophy.; Science -- History.
Description: A study of the politics of science, emphasizing the importance of the political origins and impact of scientific ideas. It traces the origins of value-neutrality before the 18th century, explores the exclusion of politics and morals with the emergence of the social sciences and reviews critiques.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-320) and index.