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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History Geschiedenis (vorm) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Racial" economy of science. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993 (DLC) 92031286 (OCoLC)26724115 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sandra G Harding |
ISBN: | 9780253115539 0253115531 0585025509 9780585025506 |
OCLC Number: | 42854274 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 526 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Introduction: Eurocentric scientific illiteracy--a challenge for the world community / S. Harding -- Poverties and triumphs of the Chinese scientific tradition / J. Needham -- Black Athena : hostilities to Egypt in the Eighteenth Century / M. Bernal -- Early Andean experimental agriculture / J. Weatherford -- American polygeny and craniometry before Darwin : blacks and indians as separate, inferior species / S.J. Gould -- Racial classifications : popular and scientific / G.A. Marshall -- The study of race / S.L. Washburn -- On the nonexistence of human races / F.B. Livingstone -- IQ : the rank ordering of the world / R.C. Lewontin, S. Rose, and L.J. Kamin -- The health of black folk : disease, class, and ideology in science / N. Krieger and M. Bassett -- Appropriating the idioms of science : the rejection of scientific racism / N.L. Stepan and S.L. Gilman -- Aesculapius was a white man : race and the cult of true womanhood / R.T. Takaki -- Co-laborers in the work of the Lord / D.C. Hine -- Ernest Everett Just / K.R. Manning. Never meant to survive : a black woman's journey--an interview with Evelynn Hammonds / A. Sands -- Increasing the participation of black women in science and technology / S. Malcom -- Without more minorities, women, disabled, U.S. Scientific failure certain, fed study says / E.M. O'Brien -- Modern science and the periphery : the characteristics of dependent knowledge / S. Goonatilake -- The Tuskegee syphilis experiment : "a moral astigmatism" / J. Jones -- Calling the shots? The international politics of depo-provera / P. Bunkle -- Colonialism and the evolution of masculinist forestry / V. Shiva -- Applied biology in the Third World : the struggle for revolutionary science / R. Levins and R. Lewontin -- Environmental racism / K. Grossman -- Methods and values in science / National Academy of Sciences -- Nazi medicine and the politics of knowledge / R. Proctor -- Race and gender : the role of analogy in science / N.L. Stepan -- The bio-politics of a multicultural field / D. Haraway -- Cultural differences in high-energy physics: contrasts between Japan and the United States / S. Traweek. The "relevance" of anthropology to colonialism and imperialism / J. Stauder -- Science and democracy : a fundamental correlation / J. Needham -- People's science / B. Zimmerman et al. -- Science and black people / Editorial, The Black Scholar -- Science, technology and black community development / R.C. Johnson -- Towards a democratic strategy for science : the new politics of science / D. Dickson -- Modern science in crisis: a Third World response / Third World Network. |
Series Title: | Race, gender, and science. |
Responsibility: | edited by Sandra Harding. |
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By racial economy Harding means those institutions, assumptions, and practices that are responsible for disproportionately distributing along 'racial' lines the benefits of Western science to the haves and the bad consequences to the have-nots, thereby enlarging the gap between them. Challenging traditional views of Western science as a progressive force and pure intellectual endeavor, she instead locates it as a Eurocentric institution shaped by the racist, sexist, and imperialist character of the dominant social order (from which ranks its practitioners are still largely drawn), and disserving the needs and interests of the peoples of the Third World and minorities in Western society. She further suggests that science itself has suffered as a creative force by neglecting the potential of non-Western contributions. An impressively broad array of scholarship has been assembled to explore these issues, drawn from scientists and historians of science, activists, and public policy analysts. The essays address themes of non-Western scientific traditions, scientific views of race, who gets to do science, regressive effects of technology on peoples of non-European origin, the supposed value neutrality of science, and the possibilities for a different relationship between science and society. A rich lode of readily accessible thought on the nature and practice of science in society. Highly recommended. General; undergraduate; graduate. -- L. W. Moore * Choice * Read more...


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