Laura Nader (ed.)

Naked Science

Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge
Herausgeber: Nader, Laura

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Naked Science is about contested domains and includes different science cultures: physics, molecular biology, primatology, immunology, ecology, medical environmental, mathematical and navigational domains. While the volume rests on the assumption that science is not autonomous, the book is distinguished by its global perspective. Examining knowledge systems within a planetary frame forces thinking about boundaries that silence or affect knowledge-building. Consideration of ethnoscience and technoscience research within a common framework is overdue for raising questions about deeply held beliefs and assumptions we all carry about scientific knowledge. We need a perspective on how to regard different science traditions because public controversies should not be about a glorified science or a despicable science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780415914659
• ISBN-10: 0415914655
• Artikelnr.: 21573138

Autorenporträt

Laura Nader

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Discovering Science; 1. Navigation in the Western Carolines: A
Traditional Science - Ward H. Goodenough; 2. The Scientific Basis of
Gastrointestinal Herbal Medicine among the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
- E.A. Berlin, B. Berlin, X. Lozoya, M. Meckes, J. Tortoriello, and M.L.
Villarreal; 3. Science for the West, Myth for Rest? The Case of James Bay
Cree Knowledge Construction - Colin Scott; 4. The Savagery of the Domestic
Mind - Jean Lave; 5. Scientific Literacy, What It Is, Why It s Important,
and Why Scientists Think We Don t Have It: The Case of Immunology and the
Immune System - Bjorn Claeson, Emily Martin, Wendy Richardson, Monica
Schoch-Spana, and Karen-Sue Taussig; Part II: Culture, Power and Context:
6. The Prism of Heritability and the Sociology of Knowledge - Troy Duster;
7. Nuclear Weapons Testing: Scientific Experiment as Political Ritual -
Hugh Gusterson; 8. Political Structuring of the Institutions of Science -
Charles Schwartz; 9. Constructing Knowledge across Social Worlds: The Case
of DNA Sequence Databases in Molecular Biology - Joan H. Fujimura and
Michael Fortun; 10. Kikusaika, Gaiatsu, and Bachigai: Japanese Physicists
Strategies for Moving into the International Pollitical Economy of Science
- Sharon Traweek: Part III: Conflicting Knowledge Systems; 11. Public
Policy, Sciencing, and Managing the Future - M. Estelllie Smith; 12. Inuit
Indigenous Knowledge and Science in the Arctic - Ellen Bielawski; 13.
Popular Delusions and Scientific Models: Conflicting Beliefs of Scientists
and Nonscientist Administrators in Creation of a Secret Nuclear
Surveillance System - David Jacobson and Charles A. Ziegler; 14. Japanese
Science and Western Hegemonies: Primatology and the Limits Set to Questions
- Pamela J. Asquith