Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate

by Lorraine Daston

Book Overview

Why is the scientific community so unified?

In the last 350-odd years, the international "scientific community" has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did "the scientific community" come into existence, and why does it work?

Rivals is an attempt to answer these questions in the form of a brief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BW65GGLD
• ISBN13: 9798987053560
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.4"