Values and objectivity in science : the current controversy about transgenic crops / Hugh Lacey.
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
c2005.
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Sommario:
- 1. How the sciences are and are not value free
- 2. Objectivity and serving human well-being
- 3. The distinction between cognitive and social values
- 4. Incommensurability and "multicultural science"
- 5. The social location of scientific practices
- 6. The controversy about transgenics : structure and opposing interests
- 7. Strategies for research in agricultural science
- 8. Benefits of using transgenics
- 9. Environmental risks of the development and use of transgenics
- 10. Alternative ("better") forms of farming
- 11. The sociocultural location of alternatives to transgenics.