Rosenberg, Charles E,

No other gods : on science and American social thought / [print] Charles E. Rosenberg. - Rev. and expandedition. edition. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)1997. - xxii, 311 pages ; 23 cm.



Preface: Science in Play -- Introduction: Science, Society, and Social Thought -- Ch. 1. The Bitter Fruit: Heredity, Disease, and Social Thought -- Ch. 2. The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Women -- Ch. 3. Sexuality, Class, and Role -- Ch. 4. Charles Benedict Davenport and the Irony of American Eugenics -- Ch. 5. George M. Beard and American Nervousness -- Ch. 6. Piety and Social Action: Some Origins of the American Public Health Movement -- Ch. 7. Martin Arrowsmith: The Scientist as Hero -- Ch. 8. Science and Social Values in Nineteenth-Century America: A Case Study in the Growth of Scientific Institutions -- Ch. 9. Science, Technology, and Economic Growth: The Case of the Agricultural Experiment Station Scientist, 1875-1914 -- Ch. 10. The Adams Act: Politics and the Cause of Scientific Research -- Ch. 11. Unintended Consequences: The Ideological Shaping of American Agricultural Research, 1875-1914.



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Science--History.--United States
Science--Social aspects--United States.

Q127 Q127.R813.N668 1997