So Human an Animal

So Human An Animal
AuthorRené Dubos
LanguageEnglish
PublisherScribner
Publication date
1968/new edition 1998
Publication placeUnited States
Pages267
ISBN978-0765804297

So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events, is a book written by René Dubos and published by Scribner in 1968.[1] It won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[2]

Themes

In the book, Dubos, a microbiologist and pathologist, explores the thesis that technology is dehumanizing us and that science needs to be humanized. In his 1976 book The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, American engineer and writer Samuel C. Florman identifies this book as "an important feature of the antitechnology crusade".[3]

References

  1. ^ Dubos, René Jules (1968). So Human an Animal. Scribner. ISBN 0-684-71753-0.
  2. ^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Nonfiction" (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  3. ^ Florman, Samuel C. (1994). The existential pleasures of engineering (2nd ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-312-14104-2.


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