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Scientific knowledge and its social problems

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Transaction Publishers, 1971 - Education - 449 pages
Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. Ravetz's new introductory essay is a masterful statement of how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.
  

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This classic of what has become the field of science studies, published in 1971, dismantles the myths of impartiality, Truth seeking (with a capital T), and moral infallibility that surrounded science ... Read full review

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About the author (1971)

Jerome R. Ravetz is the Director of Research Methods Consultancy and author of Scientific Knowledge and Social Problems. They both reside in England.

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