Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America

The debate over scientists' social responsibility is a topic of great controversy today. Peter J. Kuznick here traces the origin of that debate to the 1930s and places it in a context that forces a reevaluation of the relationship between science and politics in twentieth-century America. Kuznick reveals how an influential segment of the American scientific community during the Depression era underwent a profound transformation in its social values and political beliefs, replacing a once-pervasive conservatism and antipathy to political involvement with a new ethic of social reform.

• | Author: Peter J. Kuznick
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 374 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 022667620X
• | ISBN-13: 9780226676203