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Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge Robert N. Proctor
Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge
Robert N. Proctor
Proctor lucidly demonstrates how value-neutrality is a reaction to larger political developments, including the use of science by government and industry, the specialization of professional disciplines, and the efforts to stifle intellectual freedoms or to politicize the world of the academy.
344 pages, 6 tables, notes, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 1, 1991 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674931701 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 344 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 24 mm · 680 g |
| Language | English |
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