Paradoxes of progress / Gunther S. Stent.

  • Stent, Gunther S. (Gunther Siegmund), 1924-2008.
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[1978], ©1978
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San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, [1978], ©1978.

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xii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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Includes bibliographies and index

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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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    History of Medicine
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  • 0716700808
  • 0716700867