Physics – History and Philosophy of Physics
Scientific paper
2010-06-17
Estudios y Documentos de Politica cientifica en America Latina y el Caribe, volume 2, pp.39-110, 2010, Montevideo: UNESCO
Physics
History and Philosophy of Physics
in Spanish, 71 pages, 6 figures, 8 photos/facsimil, 4 tables, 1 annex with references and texts of 90 Hippocratic Oaths for Sc
Scientific paper
This article shows the importance that has had the scientific research, the technological development and the innovation processes in increasing the lethality of the available weapons during the last century. A set of initiatives promoted by the scientific community to stop the nuclear arms race that threatened the continuation of life on the planet is described. At this point, a thorough survey of the texts and proposals of Hippocratic Oaths for Scientists presented at different epochs is made. It is observed that the interest in linking ethical aspects with science and technology issues shows an exponential growth behavior since the Second World War. It is shown how the several proposals of oaths and ethical commitments for scientists, engineers and technologists are disseminated following a logistic growth behavior, in the same manner as a disembodied technology in a particular niche. The data analysis shows that there is a coincidence between the maximum rate of proposals and the historical moment at which the world had deployed the largest number of nuclear warheads (70,586) as well as the largest world military expenditures in history (USD 1,485,000,000,000). Subsequently, the origin of the Hippocratic Oath for Scientists used for more than two decades in graduation ceremonies at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires is analyzed and linked with the historical circumstances of its birth.
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