Alan H. Goodman is Professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College. Deborah Heath is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lewis and Clark College. M. Susan Lindee is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
7 Ebooks por M. Susan Lindee
Deborah Heath & M. Susan Lindee: Genetic Nature/Culture
The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious—or more fraught with paradox—than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, an …
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Naomi Oreskes: Why Trust Science?
Why the social character of scientific knowledge is the reason why we can trust it Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate exper …
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M. Susan Lindee: Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine
Genetic research increasingly dominates medical thought and practice in the United States and in many other industrialized nations. Susan Lindee’s original study explores the institutions, discipline …
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Jenny Bangham & Xan Chacko: Invisible Labour in Modern Science
Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workersincluding translators, activists, archivis …
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M. Susan Lindee: Suffering Made Real
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 unleashed a force as mysterious as it was deadly-radioactivity. In 1946, the United States government created the Atomic Bomb Casu …
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Jeremy Gruber & Sheldon Krimsky: Genetic Explanations
Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a …
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M. Susan Lindee: Rational Fog
A thought-provoking examination of the intersections of knowledge and violence, and the quandaries and costs of modern, technoscientific warfare.Science and violence converge in modern warfare. While …
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