Beyond the Laboratory
Author | : Peter J. Kuznick |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 022668542X |
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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.