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:

TextSeries: A Series of books in biologyPublication details: San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1978.ISBN:

0716700808.
0716700867 pbk.

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301.24/3

LOC classification:

Q175.5 .S74

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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