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- Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins
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- 9780226608419
- Publication Year
- 2010
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- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
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- English
- Publication Name
- Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins
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- 1.1in
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Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology has been used to justify eugenic programs, forced sterilization, human experimentation, and death camps--all in an attempt to support notions of racial superiority. By investigating the past, the contributors to Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins hope to better prepare us to discern ideological abuse of science when it occurs in the future. Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers bring together fourteen experts to examine the varied ways science has been used and abused for nonscientific purposes from the fifteenth century to the present day. Featuring an essay on eugenics from Edward J. Larson and an examination of the progress of evolution by Michael J. Ruse, Biology and Ideology examines uses both benign and sinister, ultimately reminding us that ideological extrapolation continues today. An accessible survey, this collection will enlighten historians of science, their students, practicing scientists, and anyone interested in the relationship between science and culture.
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University of Chicago Press
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0226608417
ISBN-13
9780226608419
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77880646
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
24.6 Oz
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Qh331.B477 2010
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These fascinating, well-referenced, discussions, covering such causes célèbres as Paley, Lysenko, and Dawkins, will surely be of value to the teacher and student, to practicing scientist and those interested in the relationship between science and society., A gripping book on the grey area between the use and abuse of biology for ideological purposes. Eugenics, racism and sexism, apologias for theism, vitalism, and atheism are just a few of the agendas that have shaped, and been shaped by, biological theory. Describing extrapolations that have often added to the sum of human suffering, the essays here, from distinguished historians of science, are authoritative, compelling, and disturbing., These fascinating, well-referenced, discussions, covering such causes clbres as Paley, Lysenko, and Dawkins, will surely be of value to the teacher and student, to practicing scientist and those interested in the relationship between science and society.
Table of Content
Introduction Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers Chapter 1. The cultural authority of natural history in early modern Europe Peter Harrison Chapter 2. Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France Shirley A. Roe Chapter 3. Eighteenth-century uses of vitalism in constructing the human sciences Peter Hanns Reill Chapter 4. Biology in the service of natural theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises Jonathan R. Topham Chapter 5. Race, empire, and biology before Darwinism Sujit Sivasundaram Chapter 6. Darwin's choice Nicolaas Rupke Chapter 7. Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement Edward J. Larson Chapter 8. Genetics, eugenics, and the Holocaust Paul Weindling Chapter 9. Darwinism, Marxism, and genetics in the Soviet Union Nikolai Krementsov Chapter 10. Evolution and the idea of social Progress Michael Ruse Chapter 11. Beauty and the beast? Conceptualizing sex in evolutionary narratives Erika Lorraine Milam Chapter 12. Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology Ronald L. Numbers Chapter 13. The ideological uses of evolutionary biology in recent atheist apologetics Alister E. McGrath Acknowledgments Notes Contributors Index
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, General, Life Sciences / Biology
Lccn
2009-034186
Dewey Decimal
570.1
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Science, Philosophy
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