It’s like getting married
Barbara HerrnsteinSmith: Academic v. Industrial Science, 12 February 2009
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
by Steven Shapin.
Chicago, 468 pp., £15, October 2008,978 0 226 75024 8 Show More
by Steven Shapin.
Chicago, 468 pp., £15, October 2008,
“... The practices of science, it appears, are increasingly industrial in location, corporate in organisation, and product and profit-minded in motivation. In the eyes of various commentators, these trends represent an obviously undesirable state of affairs: inhospitable to the genuine scientific vocation, dispiriting for the scientists involved and seriously at odds with the sustaining norms of science itself ... ”