No Other Gods

Preface: Science in Play
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Science, Society and Social Thought
Part I: Science, Authority, and the Logic of Social Explanation
Chapter 1. The Bitter Fruit: Heredity, Disease, and Social Thought
Chapter 2. The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Women
Chapter 3. Sexuality, Class, and Role
Chapter 4. Charles Benedict Davenport and the Irony of American Eugenics
Chapter 5. George M. Beard and American Nervousness
Chapter 6. Piety and Social Action: Some Origins of the American Public Health Movement
Chapter 7. Martin Arrowsmith: The Scientist as Hero
Part II: Institutional Forms and Social Values
Chapter 8. Science and Social Values in Nineteenth-Century America: A Case Study in the Growth of Scientific Institutions
Chapter 9. Science, Technology, and Economic Growth: The Case of the Agricultural Experiment Station Scientist, 1875–1914
Chapter 10. The Adams Act: Politics and the Cause of Scientific Research
Chapter 11. Unintended Consequences: The Ideological Shaping of American Agricultural Research, 1875–1914
Chapter 12. Science Pure and Science Applied: Two Studies in the Social Origin of Scientific Research
Chapter 13. The Social Environment of Scientific Innovation: Factors in the Development of Genetics in the United States
Chapter 14. Toward an Ecology of Knowledge: On Discipline, Context, and History
Chapter 15. Woods or Trees? Ideas and Actors in the History of Science
Notes
Index