Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities
and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable
authority? "The Scientific Life" is historian Steven Shapin's story
about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our
sensibilities about such things matter. From the early
twentieth-century origins of corporate research laboratories to the
high-flying scientific entrepreneurship of the present, Shapin
argues that the radical uncertainties of much contemporary science
have made personal virtues more central to its practice than ever
before, and he also reveals how radically novel aspects of late
modern science have unexpectedly deep historical roots. His
elegantly conceived history of the scientific career and character
ultimately encourages us to reconsider the very nature of the
technical and moral worlds in which we now live.
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