Download or read book Scientist as Subject written by Michael J. Mahoney and published by Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, originally published by Ballinger in 1976, Michael Mahoney documents the idiosyncracies and foibles of the scientific process as a field of endeavor. A new introduction updates his discussion in light of subsequent developments, including such aspects of academia as politics and tenure, publication and power relations, science studies and constructivist inquiry, and what have come to be called the "science wars."