"anexo um book review do livro recente de Steven Shapin, A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (trata-se da velha Ciência e não de igreja evangélica).
Deresuewucz, professor de literatura aposentado, e critico literário de sucesso, a meu ver dissecou corretamentr o livro de Shapin, historiador e sociólogo de ciência (hoje de Harvard) de apreciável prestigio...
Se vc quizer, coloque o texto no blog ou pelo menos envie para recipientes interessados do Instituto e da Universidade.
Estou aos poucos abandonando macrófagos e células enucleadas, trocadas pela Republica da Ciência, que começou como Conferencia na Biblioteca Municipal para professores de secundário, em 2004, fez o circuito de Campos, R. Preto, UENF, USP, sempre modificada, e que agora está sendo transformada em curso eletivo de 5 aulas. Isto me faz ler uma montanha de livros e artigos, buscando entender melhor aquilo do que falo...
Se quizer posso enviar uma lista de livros que possuo – os títulos por só já servem de indicar dos problemas que encontra nossa querida Republica....Tenciono escrever uma lista anotada dos livros q são fontes para quem quizer entrar no lamaçal."
Lab Test: Who Profits From Scientific Research? By William Deresiewicz
REVIEW OF The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation by Steven Shapin
"The most striking thing about the way we talk about science these days is just how little we talk about it at all. No large fundamental question focuses our attention on the adventure of discovery; no grand public project stirs our reflection on the perils of technological control. Nothing for decades has approached the imaginative impact of relativity or the double helix, the moon landing or the bomb. Even genetic research, which generates so much attention in the media, is understood more as a medical issue--news you can use--than an issue of science as such. And if we talk about science very little, we talk about the scientist even less. The old stereotypes, once so evocative--the genius, the benefactor, the madman--have lost their potency. No Einstein or Pasteur anymore, no Frankenstein or Strangelove. Scientific research has become so highly collaborative, so much a group endeavor, that the investigators have been eclipsed by the explainers--the Sagans and Pinkers and Gladwells. Science has become so pervasive a part of the way things run that, like the servants in a Victorian household, the people who actually make it happen have disappeared into the wallpaper."
Veja a review completa, publicada no The Nation, 16/04/2009.
About William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz is a regular contributor to The Nation's Books & the Arts section. He was nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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