The "racial" economy of science : toward a democratic future / edited by Sandra Harding.

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[1993], ©1993
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1993], ©1993.

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xiv, 526 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

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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 : nineteenth-century black women physicians / D.C. Hine -- Ernest Everett Just : the role of foundation support for black scientists 1920-1929 / 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.

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  • 0253326931
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