Between Science and Values / / Loren R. Graham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Graham, Loren R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1981]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 1981
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (452 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction: Expansionism and Restrictionism --; I. The Physical Sciences --; Physical Knowledge and Values --; 1. The New Physics --; Physical Knowledge and Society --; 2. Eddington and the English-Speaking World --; 3. Fock and the Soviet Union --; 4. Heisenberg and Germany --; 5. Bergson, Monod, and France --; Part II. The Biological Sciences --; Biological Knowledge and Values --; 6. Studying Animals to Learn About Man --; 7. Primatology and Sociobiology --; Biological Knowledge and Society --; 8. Eugenics: Weimar Germany And Soviet Russia --; 9. Biomedical Ethics --; Part III. Reactions to the Dilemma of Science and Values --; 10. Public Concerns About Science and Technology: The Question of Limits of Inquiry --; 11. Attempts to Provide a Philosophical Overview --; Part IV. What Kind of Expansionism Do We Want? --; 12. Science and Values: Attempts at Historical Understanding --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231878951; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/grah90480
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Loren R. Graham.

Explores the historical relationship between science and values throughout the twentieth century through an examination of specific historical instances of interactions between science and values. Looks at both physical and biological sciences.