No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought

Abstract

The practice of publishing an author's collected essays has in the past been indulged in mainly by the elder statesmen of science and the arts, or by their colleagues wishing to commemorate a birthday, death, or anniversary.There is today, however, a growing tendency for others to use the technique, thus allowing their articles to render double service, in periodical and in anthology.Only the introduction and one of the twelve chapters of this book appear here for the first time, the remainder having been published already in journals.Nevertheless, Rosenberg's scholarly essays are stimulating and thought-provoking, dealing primarily with the ways in which the sciences, social thought and values, and the institutional structure of science have interacted, and how scientific concepts have ordered society, particularly as concerns the American scientific community.Being a historian of medicine, many of his examples come from this field: the medical profession and society; sexuality, heredity and disease; the influence ofscientific research on medicine; the evaluation of health.The book can therefore be recommended to those concerned with the history of medicine and science, although many may wish to avoid its high price by perusing the onrginal articles which are to be found in readily available journals.

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