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Paradoxes of progress / Gunther S. Stent.

By: Stent, Gunther S. (Gunther Siegmund), 1924- Stent, Gunther S. (Gunther Siegmund), 1924-, Stent, Gunther S. (Gunther Siegmund), 1924-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: A Series of books in biology.Publisher: San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1978ISBN: 0716700808.; 0716700867 pbk..Subject(s): Science -- Social aspects. -- Science -- Social aspects | Science -- Philosophy. -- Science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 301.24/3
Contents:
The rise and fall of Faustian man: The end of progress. The end of the arts and sciences. The road to Polynesia.--Molecular genetics in the salon: What they are saying about Honest Jim. Prematurity and uniqueness in scientific discovery. Molecular biology and metaphysics. The dilemma of science and morals.--Structuralism on the last frontier: Abstraction in the nervous system. Genes and the embryo. Limits to the scientific understanding of man. The decadence of scientism.
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The rise and fall of Faustian man: The end of progress. The end of the arts and sciences. The road to Polynesia.--Molecular genetics in the salon: What they are saying about Honest Jim. Prematurity and uniqueness in scientific discovery. Molecular biology and metaphysics. The dilemma of science and morals.--Structuralism on the last frontier: Abstraction in the nervous system. Genes and the embryo. Limits to the scientific understanding of man. The decadence of scientism.

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