The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950

by Gregg Mitman

Book Overview

Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226532372
• ISBN13: 9780226532370
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"