BookParadoxes of progress
Personal name
Main title
- Paradoxes of progress / Gunther S. Stent.
Published/Created
- San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1978.
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Description
- xii, 231 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN
- 0716700808. 0716700867
LC 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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Notes
- Includes bibliographies and index.
Series
- A Series of books in biology
LCCN
- 78017829
Dewey class no.
- 301.24/3
Type of material
- Book
Item Availability
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- Q175.5 .S74 FT MEADE
- Copy 2
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