Between science and values / [print]
Loren R. Graham.
- New York : Columbia University Press, (c)1981.
- x, 449 pages ; 24 cm.
The physical sciences -- Physical knowledge and values -- The new physics -- Physical knowledge and society -- Eddington and the English-speaking world ; -- Fock and the Soviet Union ; -- Heisenberg and Germany ; -- Bergson, Monod, and France -- The biological sciences -- Biological knowledge and values -- Studying animals to learn about man ; -- Primatology and sociobiology -- Biological knowledge and society -- Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ; -- Biomedical ethics -- Reactions to the dilemma of science and values -- Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry -- Attempts to provide a philosophical overview -- What kind of expansionism do we want? -- Science and values: attempts at historical understanding.