Science in society / Matthew David.

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Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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Table of 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).