Sciences and Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences

by Yehuda Elkana

Book Overview

Anthropological approaches to the sciences have developed as part of a broader tradition concerned about the place of the sciences in today's world and in some basic sense concerned with questions about the legitimacy of the sciences. In the years since the second World War, we have seen the emergence of a number of different attempts both to analyze and to cope with the successes of the sciences, their broad penetration into social life, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027712352
• ISBN13: 9789027712356
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"