C.P. Snow at Wesleyan: Liberal learning and the origins of the "Third Culture"

Technology in Society

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-17

  Fins, Joseph J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; C.P. Snow; Center for Advanced Studies; F.R. Leavis; Interdisciplinary studies; Leavis Snow controversy; Pamela Hansford Johnson; Science and humanities; Sigmund Neumann; The two cultures; Third culture; Victor Butterfield; Wesleyan University

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS; C.P. SNOW; EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS; INTER-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES; LIBERAL ARTS;

SNOW;

CULTURE; EDUCATION; ETHICS; INNOVATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LEARNING;

EID: 77950864789     PISSN: 0160791X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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