The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2008], ©2008.

xvii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-439) and index.

Knowledge and virtue : the way we live now -- From calling to job : nature, truth, method, and vocation from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries -- The moral equivalence of the scientist : a history of the very idea -- Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the tower -- Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the managers -- The scientist and the civic virtues : the moral life of organized science -- The scientific entrepreneur : money, motives, and the place of virtue -- Visions of the future : uncertainty and virtue in the world of high-tech and venture capital -- The way we live now : epilogue.