Science, democracy, and the American university from the Civil War to the Cold War
This book reinterprets the rise of the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern America. Andrew Jewett demonstrates the remarkable persistence of a belief that the scientific enterprise carried with it a set of ethical values capable of grounding a democratic culture -...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : relating science and democracy
- Founding hopes
- Internal divisions
- Science and philosophy
- Scientific citizenship
- The biology of culture
- The problem of cultural change
- Making scientific citizens
- Science and its contexts
- The problem of values
- Two cultures
- Accommodation
- Conclusion : science and democracy in a new century