Limits of scientific inquiry / edited by Gerald Holton and Robert S. Morison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holton, Gerald James.

Morison, Robert S., 1906-1986.

W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Daedalus (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 107, no. 2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Research.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 254 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 1979.

Contents:

Introduction / Robert S. Morison

Concerns about science and attempts to regulate inquiry / Loren R. Graham

Presumptions of science / Robert L. Sinsheimer

Limiting science : a biologist's perspective / David Baltimore

Science and the sense of self : the medieval background of a modern confrontation / Lynn White, Jr.

Reflections on the neo-Romantic critique of science / Leo Marx

Endless frontier or bureaucratic morass? / Don K. Price

Academic freedom and scientific freedom / Walter P. Metzger

Freedom and risk / Sissela Bok

Protecting the "animal of necessity" : limits to inquiry in clinical investigation / Judith P. Swazey

Science's restive public / Barbara J. Culliton

Public criticism of health science policy / Peter Barton Hutt

Problem of research priorities / Harvey Brooks

Threats and promises : negotiating the control of research / Dorothy Nelkin

Misgivings about life-extending technologies / Robert S. Morison

From the endless frontier to the ideology of limits / Gerald Holton.

Notes:

Originally published in 1978 as v. 107, no. 2 of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"Copyright ©1979, 1978 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

ISBN:

0393012123

OCLC:

5750116