So Human an Animal

So Human An Animal
Author René Dubos
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Scribner
Publication date
1968/new edition 1998
Pages 267
ISBN 978-0765804297

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 Non-Fiction.[2] Dubos was a microbiologist and pathologist, but the book's major thesis was that technology is dehumanizing us and that science needs to be humanized.

References

  1. Dubos, René Jules (1968). So Human an Animal. Scribner. ISBN 0-684-71753-0.
  2. "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2008-02-28.


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