Walter Morison Ed (3 results)

Condition: Fair. 1955. 2nd Printing. 381 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed.…

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but tanned pages. Wrappers have general shelf wear, soiling, tanning. Contents: Morison, Introduction. Graham, Concerns about Science and Attempts to Regulate Inquiry. Sinsheimer, The Presumptions of Science. Baltimore, Limiting Science: A Biologist's Perspective. White, Science and the Sense of Self: THe Medieval Background of a Modern Confrontation. Max, Reflections on the Neo-Romantic Critique of Science. Pice, Endless Frontier or Bureaucratic Morass? Metzger, Academic Freedom and Scientific Freedom. Box, Freedom and Risk. Swazey, Protecting the "Animal of Necessity": Limits to Inquiry in Clinical Investigation. Culliton, Science's Restive Public. Hutt, Public Criticism of Health Science Policy. Brooks, The Problem of Research Priorities. Nelkin, Threats and Promises: Negotiating the Control of Research. Morison, Misgivings about Life-Extending Technologies. Holton, Epilogue. Vol. 107, No. 2, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 9.75" tall; 240 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and lower rear cover corner, and some soiling and smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a solid, tight, Very Good copy with clean text in a price clipped, Fair only dust jacket, which has chips and creased tears to the spine ends and corners, rubbing and moderate soiling to the covers and spine, and some wear to the edges. The jacket is in Mylar.…