Research Catalog

Title

Science and other cultures : issues in philosophies of science and technology / edited by Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Figueroa, Robert.
• Harding, Sandra G.

Description

viii, 276 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Science > Philosophy
• Sciences > Philosophie
• Technologie > Philosophie
• Technology > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

AIDS, crisis, and activist science / Robert Hood -- Why standpoint matters / Alison Wylie -- A world of sciences / Sandra Harding -- To walk in balance : an encounter between contemporary Western science and conquest-era Nahua philosophy / James Maffie -- Seeds and their sociocultural nexus / Hugh Lacey -- Fallout : issues in the study, treatment, and reparations of exposed Marshall Islanders / Robert P. Crease -- Essentially empirical : the roles of biological and legal classification in effectively prohibiting genetic discrimination / Anita Silvers and Michael Ashley Stein -- Rethinking normalcy, normalization, and cognitive disability / Licia Carlson -- Conformity through cosmetic surgery : the medical erasure of race and disability / Sara Goering -- The Wisconsin card sort : an empirical and philosophical analysis of presuppositions regarding flexibility of cognition / Sara Waller -- Geography and ideas of race / Naomi Zack -- Queer nature, circular science / Margaret Cuonzo -- Technology in a global world / Andrew Feenberg -- Creativity of technology and the modernization process of Japan / Junichi Murata.

ISBN

• 0415939917 (hb)
• 0415939925 (pb)

LCCN

^^2003271011

OCLC

52116486

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library