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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1969. 0 with reviews - Be the first. [Foreword]. As Joseph Wood Krutch noted at the time, Dubos shows convincingly ""why science is indispensable, not omnipotent."" In fact, the environment we live in can greatly enhance, or severely Hmit, the development of human potential. Science'can change our suicidal course by learning to deal analytically with the living experience of human beings, by supplementing the knowledge of things and of the body machine with a science of human life. All rights reserved. We create conditions which can only thwart human nature.So Human an Animal is a book with hope no less than alarm.

However, today each person faces the critical danger of losing this very humanness to his mechanized surroundings. [René J Dubos] -- "The unifying theme of this book is that all experiences leave a stamp on both physical and mental characteristics.

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So begins the essential message of the work of one of the great figures in microbiology and experimental pathology of this century.Is the human species becoming dehumanized by the condition of his environment? The book sounds both an urgent warning, and offers important policy insights into how this trend towards dehumanization can be halted and finally reversed. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. Don't have an account? http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/175625> ; http:\/\/purl.oclc.org\/dataset\/WorldCat> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/175625#PublicationEvent\/new_york_scribner_1968>.

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