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Scientific Antlers

Steven Shapin

  • The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character by Daniel Kevles

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Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.

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