Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930's America

by Peter Kuznick

Book Overview

The debate over scientists' social responsibility is a topic of great controversy today. Peter J. Kuznick here traces the origin of that debate to the 1930s and places it in a context that forces a reevaluation of the relationship between science and politics in twentieth-century America. Kuznick reveals how an influential segment of the American scientific community during the Depression era underwent a profound transformation in its social values...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226465845
• ISBN13: 9780226465845
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"