Notes
1. For example, see: R. Nisbet, The Idea of Progress (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1980/1998); C. Lasch, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991); and Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, special issue On Progress, Summer 2004.
2. e.g. N. Cartwright, The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
3. D. Sarewitz, R. A. Pielke, Jr, and R. A. Byerly, Jr (eds), Prediction: Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature (Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, 2000).
4. e.g. R. Evans, M. Barer and T. Marmor, Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not: The Determinants of Health of Populations (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994).
5. R. Rhodes, R., “Technology and Death,” in A. Lightman, D. Sarewitz and C. Desser (eds), Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery (Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, 2003), pp. 129–38.
6. e.g. E. Deiner and E. Suh, Subjective Well-Being across Cultures (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000).
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