- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (1 Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0253208106
- ISBN-13: 978-0253208101
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,761,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The classic and recent essays gathered here will challenge scholars in the natural sciences, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and women's studies to examine the role of racism in the construction and application of the sciences. Harding ... has also created a useful text for diverse classroom settings." - Library Journal "A rich lode of readily accessible thought on the nature and practice of science in society. Highly recommended." - Choice "This is an excellent collection of essays that should prove useful in a wide range of STS courses." - Science, Technology, and Society " ... important and provocative ... "- The Women's Review of Books "The timeliness and utility of this large interdisciplinary reader on the relation of Western science to other cultures and to world history can hardly be overemphasized. It provides a tremendous resource for teaching and for research ... "- Ethics "Excellent." - The Reader's Review p> "Sandra Harding is an intellectually fearless scholar. She has assembled a bold, impressive collection of essays to make a volume of illuminating power. This brilliantly edited book is essential reading for all who seek understanding of the multicultural debates of our age. Never has a book been more timely." - Darlene Clark Hine
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"Sandra Harding is an intellectually fearless scholar. She assembled a bold, impressive collection of essays to make a volume of illuminating power. This brilliantly edited book is essential reading for all who seek understanding of the multicultural debates of our age. Never has a book been more timely." -Darlene Clark Hine Fueled by the declining legitimacy of Western authority and by critiques of Eurocentrism, a number of widely acclaimed analyses of the sciences have recently appeared. Sandra Harding draws from this body of scholarship to assemble an anthology of classic essays by Third World and Western thinkers who link the sciences to local, national, and international projects for making and remaking democracy. In this rich, diverse collection, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, political theorists, and scientists treat a wide range of issues: revaluating the sciences in premodern high cultures of China, Africa, and the Andes; disputes over science's legitimation of culturally approved definitions of race difference, from craniology to the measurement of IQ; overcoming the dependence of Third World research on First World agendas; race, imperialism, and the application of scientific technologies in health and reproductive areas; the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiments; developmental agriculture and applied biology in the Third World; environmental racism and environmental crises in developing countries; questions of values, objectivity, method, and nature in sciences; and visions of programs that create sciences for a democratic world community.
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This excellent book will uncover for you the dangers inhent with the modern paradigm of science. The "S knows that P" model, and the atrocities that it can alow will become evident after reading just a few essays in the Racial Economy of Science. Chanllenge yourself to face the problems that feminism presents.
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