Research Catalog

Title

Science in society / Matthew David.

Author

David, Matthew.

Publication

Houndmills [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005.

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Description

xiii, 199 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Providing a general framework for understanding, combining and applying the rich range of approaches that exist within sociology about science, this text draws on examples from both the past - as well as more contemporary issues - in order to provide a clear and comprehensive introduction to the field.

Subject

Science > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-190) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. An introduction to issues and forebears -- 2. The perspective of this book : reflexive epistemological diversity -- 3. Risk and technoscience : the fusion of society, science and technology today -- 4. Science and institutional interests : the strong programme and beyond -- 5. Science and language/interaction : ethnography and discourse -- 6. Science and capitalism : critical theory and critical realism -- 7. Science and patriarchy : women as subjects/objects of science -- 8. Second nature : genetic modification and commodification of the non-human -- 9. Human nature? : human behaviour and genetic determinism -- 10. Medical genetics and human health -- 11. Reflexive epistemological diversity (RED).

ISBN

• 0333993470 (hbk.)
• 0333993489 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2004057783
• 9780333993477 (hbk.)
• 9780333993484 (pbk.)

OCLC

56967257

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library