So Human an Animal

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 Nonfiction.^[2]

So Human An Animal

Author	René Dubos
Language	English
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	1968/new edition 1998
Publication place	United States
Pages	267
ISBN	978-0765804297

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".^[3]