''So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events'', is a book written by René Dubos and published by

Scribner Scribner may refer to: Media * Charles Scribner's Sons, also known as Scribner or Scribner's, New York City publisher * ''Scribner's Magazine'', pictorial published from 1887–1939 by Charles Scribner's Sons, then merged with the ''Commentator ...

in 1968. It won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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".

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* 1968 non-fiction books Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning works {{psych-book-stub