This book is a collection of short essays, each challenging a commonplace assumption about biology - playfully dubbed "Sacred Bovines."Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Douglass Allchin is is a historian and philosopher of science and science educator. He holds a PhD in "Conceptual Foundations of Science" from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Minnesota since 2001. Allchin has published extensively on history of science, philosophy of science and science education. His research focuses primarily on error and disagrement in science. He also edits the SHiPS Resource Center, a website for helping teachers teach about the nature of science.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions The Way of Science 1 Monsters and Marvels 2 The Messy Story Behind the Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology 3 Ahead of the Curve 4 Marxism and Cell Biology 5 The Dogma of the Scientific Method Darwin, Evolution and Society 6 Was Darwin a Social Darwinist? 7 Social Un-Darwinism 8 A More Fitting Analogy 9 The Domesticated Gene Making Mistakes 10 A Comedy of Scientific Errors 11 Nobel Ideals and Noble Errors 12 Celebrating Darwin's Errors What Counts as Science 13 Science Beyond Scientists 14 Skepticism and the Architecture of Trust 15 Science Con-Artists Naturalizing Cultural Values 16 Male, Female, and/or -? 17 Monsters and the Tyranny of Normality 18 To Be Human 19 Genes R Us 20 The Peppered Moths, A Study in Black and White Myth-conceptions 21 Alexander Fleming's "Eureka" Moment 22 Round vs. Wrinkled: Gregor Mendel as Icon 23 William Harvey and Capillaries 24 The Tragic Hero of Childbed Fever Values and Biology Education 25 Respect for Life 26 Hands-Off Dissection? 27 Organisms, Modified, Genetically 28 Close to Nature Epilogue: Challenging Our Sacred Bovines Afterword for Educators Notes References Acknowledgments Image Credits Index
Prologue: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions The Way of Science 1 Monsters and Marvels 2 The Messy Story Behind the Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology 3 Ahead of the Curve 4 Marxism and Cell Biology 5 The Dogma of the Scientific Method Darwin, Evolution and Society 6 Was Darwin a Social Darwinist? 7 Social Un-Darwinism 8 A More Fitting Analogy 9 The Domesticated Gene Making Mistakes 10 A Comedy of Scientific Errors 11 Nobel Ideals and Noble Errors 12 Celebrating Darwin's Errors What Counts as Science 13 Science Beyond Scientists 14 Skepticism and the Architecture of Trust 15 Science Con-Artists Naturalizing Cultural Values 16 Male, Female, and/or -? 17 Monsters and the Tyranny of Normality 18 To Be Human 19 Genes R Us 20 The Peppered Moths, A Study in Black and White Myth-conceptions 21 Alexander Fleming's "Eureka" Moment 22 Round vs. Wrinkled: Gregor Mendel as Icon 23 William Harvey and Capillaries 24 The Tragic Hero of Childbed Fever Values and Biology Education 25 Respect for Life 26 Hands-Off Dissection? 27 Organisms, Modified, Genetically 28 Close to Nature Epilogue: Challenging Our Sacred Bovines Afterword for Educators Notes References Acknowledgments Image Credits Index
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