Impure Science
Author | : Steven Gary Epstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1993 |
ISBN-10 | : UCAL:C3377893 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
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Author | : Steven Gary Epstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1993 |
ISBN-10 | : UCAL:C3377893 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Author | : Steven Epstein |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1996 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520214453 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520214455 |
Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies.
Author | : Jonathan Simon |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2012-06-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781908977625 |
ISBN-13 | : 1908977620 |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
What do you associate with chemistry? Explosions, innovative materials, plastics, pollution? The public's confused and contradictory conception of chemistry as basic science, industrial producer and polluter contributes to what we present in this book as chemistry's image as an impure science. Historically, chemistry has always been viewed as impure both in terms of its academic status and its role in transforming modern society. While exploring the history of this science we argue for a characteristic philosophical approach that distinguishes chemistry from physics. This reflection leads us to a philosophical stance that we characterise as operational realism. In this new expanded edition we delve deeper into the questions of properties and potentials that are so important for this philosophy that is based on the manipulation of matter rather than the construction of theories./a
Author | : Robert Bell |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1992-04-29 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015022230281 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
The author lifts the veil of secrecy from scientific research conducted in this country. He presents a shattering indictment of the scientific community from the halls of government to the research centers at major universities and corporations. Documents case after case of influence peddling, doctored research and outright fraud, and reveals how the twin forces of money and status compromise and corrupt the pursuit of scientific truth.
Author | : Arthur M. Silverstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1981 |
ISBN-10 | : UCAL:B4285877 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Grippe / Impfung / Politik.
Author | : Daniel Lee Kleinman |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2003-10-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780299192334 |
ISBN-13 | : 0299192334 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
How are the worlds of university biology and commerce blurring? Many university leaders see the amalgamation of academic and commercial cultures as crucial to the future vitality of higher education in the United States. In Impure Cultures, Daniel Lee Kleinman questions the effect of this blending on the character of academic science. Using data he gathered as an ethnographic observer in a plant pathology lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Kleinman examines the infinite and inescapable influence of the commercial world on biology in academia today. Contrary to much of the existing literature and common policy practices, he argues that the direct and explicit relations between university scientists and industrial concerns are not the gravest threat to academic research. Rather, Kleinman points to the less direct, but more deeply-rooted effects of commercial factors on the practice of university biology. He shows that to truly understand research done at universities today, it is first necessary to explore the systematic, pervasive, and indirect effects of the commercial world on contemporary academic practice.
Author | : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781848168114 |
ISBN-13 | : 184816811X |
Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Introduces the central issues in the philosophy of chemistry. Mobilizing the theme of impurity, this book explores the tradition of chemistry's negative image. It argues for the positive philosophical value of chemistry, reflecting its characteristic practical engagement with the material world.
Author | : Terence Keel |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781503604377 |
ISBN-13 | : 1503604373 |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human difference. He argues that, instead of a rupture between religion and modern biology on the question of human origins, modern scientific theories of race are, in fact, an extension of Christian intellectual history. Keel's study draws on ancient and early modern theological texts and biblical commentaries, works in Christian natural philosophy, seminal studies in ethnology and early social science, debates within twentieth-century public health research, and recent genetic analysis of population differences and ancient human DNA. From these sources, Keel demonstrates that Christian ideas about creation, ancestry, and universalism helped form the basis of modern scientific accounts of human diversity—despite the ostensible shift in modern biology towards scientific naturalism, objectivity, and value neutrality. By showing the connections between Christian thought and scientific racial thinking, this book calls into question the notion that science and religion are mutually exclusive intellectual domains and proposes that the advance of modern science did not follow a linear process of secularization.
Author | : Steven Epstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2022-03-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226818221 |
ISBN-13 | : 0226818225 |
Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
"Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something called 'sexual health'. Programs were launched, organizations founded, initiatives funded, products sold-and yet, no book before this one asks: What does it mean to be sexually healthy? When did people conceive of a form of health called sexual health? And how did it become the gateway to addressing a host of social harms and the reimagining of private desires and public dreams? Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health, this book traverses the distance from the research and treatment domains where sexual health is assessed, measured, and improved to the "sex expos" that invite attendees to "leave their inhibitions at the door and explore today's top intimacy products" and beyond. Sexual health encompasses wildly disparate agendas and speaks to innumerable concerns-from sexual dysfunction to sexual violence, from HIV prevention to reproductive freedom, to the practicalities of sexual contact during a global pandemic. Rather than a thing apart, sexual health is intertwined with nearly every conceivable topical debate-and more of them every day. Through his wide-ranging exploration, Steven Epstein provides the critical tools needed to bring into focus the different faces of sexual health and parse the debates that swirl around it"--
Author | : Sainath Suryanarayanan |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2016-11-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780813574615 |
ISBN-13 | : 0813574617 |
Rating | : 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade, widespread honeybee deaths—some of which have come to be called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)—have continued to bedevil beekeepers and threaten the agricultural industries that rely on bees for pollination. Scientists continue to debate the causes of CCD, yet there is no clear consensus on how to best solve the problem. Vanishing Bees takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of CCD, including beekeepers, entomologists, growers, agrichemical companies, and government regulators. Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD. In addition, they explore the often-contentious interactions among different groups, detailing how they assert authority, gain trust, and build alliances. As it explores the contours of the CCD crisis, Vanishing Bees considers an equally urgent question: what happens when farmers, scientists, beekeepers, corporations, and federal agencies approach the problem from different vantage points and cannot see eye-to-eye? The answer may have profound consequences for every person who wants to keep fresh food on the table.