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Finalization in science : the social orientation of scientific progress / Gernot Böhme ... [and others] ; edited by Wolf Schäfer ; translated by Pete Burgess.
LIBRA Q174 .B67 v.77
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 77.
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 77
- Standardized Title:
- Gesellschaftliche Orientierung des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Research--Social aspects.
- Research.
- Sociology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Science.
- Research.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 315 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston, U.S.A. : D. Reidel ; Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston, [1983]
- Contents:
- Authors' introduction / Gernot Böhme ... et al.
- Agricultural chemistry / Wolfgang Krohn and Wolf Schäfer
- Autonomization and finalization / Gernot Böhme
- Cancer research / Rainer Hohlfeld
- Finalization revisited / Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang van den Daele, and Rainer Hohlfeld
- The scientification of technology / Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang van den Daele, and Wolfgang Krohn
- Normative finalization / Wolf Schäfer
- Science in a crisis of legitimation / Wolfgang van den Daele and Wolfgang Krohn
- Towards a social science of nature / Gernot Böhme and Wolf Schäfer.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Die Gesellschaftliche Orientierung des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts; pt. 3 added for English ed.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 9027715491
- OCLC:
- 9394043
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