Science, culture and society: understanding science in the twenty-first century
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Polity Press
2005
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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| Umfang: | XI, 241 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780745629742 0745629741 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of boxes vii
List of illustrations viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1
Part I Language, Art and Science 7
1 Paolozzi and Faraday: Science and Art 9
Part II Doing Science 27
2 In the Laboratory 29
3 Scientific Knowledge 52
4 History 89
5 Scientists and Scientific Communities 122
Part III Representing Science 145
6 Popular Science 147
7 Science Fiction 168
vi CONTENTS
Part IV Living with Science 197
8 Investigating Science in a Cultural
Framework 199
References 225
Index 236
Boxes
1.1 Ludwig Wittgenstein 17
1.2 Ludwik Fleck 20
2.1 Experiments 30
2.2 Scientific knowledge and scientific method 31
2.3 Formal scientific language 34
2.4 Cloning 37
2.5 Peer review 44
3.1 Relativism 64
3.2 Thought communities, thought collectives
and thought styles 68
3.3 Ludwik Fleck and Thomas Kuhn 71
4.1 Nuclear fusion 92
4.2 Relativity and quantum physics: the new physics 96
4.3 Progress, 1 104
4.4 Progress, 2 107
5.1 The institutional imperatives of science 127
6.1 Richard Feynman and the space shuttle 153
6.2 Stephen Jay Gould 156
8.1 What is nanotechnology? 200
Illustrations
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, RA, Faraday (2000). Photo by
Bee Chalkley. 8
Illustration 1.1. Detail of Faraday, head. Photo by Bee
Chalkley. 13
Illustration 2.1. PCR machine (with radiation sticker).
Photo by author. 37
Illustration 2.2. Lab bench where experiments are prepared.
Photo by author. 38
Illustration 2.3. Loading a gel with reaction products in
the hot room. Photo by author. 39
Illustration 2.4. Visual results from the phosphorimager.
Photo by Dr G. Lloyd. Published with Dr Lloyd s
permission, © author. 40
Illustration 2.5. Corridor and refrigerators outside main
laboratory work-space. Photo by author. 42
Illustration 5.1. Discovery Foods advertisement, summer
2002. © Discovery Foods. Published with permission of
Discovery Foods from copy provided by Hooper Galton
advertising agent. 124
Illustration 5.2. Physicist - the usual suspects. Photo
by Robin Chandra. © Institute of Physics 2003.
Reproduced with permission. 137
L Oreal advertisement, 2002. Image courtesy of The
Advertising Archives. 145
Illustration 7.1. The Bull Ring shopping centre, Birmingham,
2004. Photo by Bee Chalkley. 173
Illustration 8.1. ETC Group. © Reymond Page. 215
ILLUSTRATIONS ix
Figures
Fig. 2.1. Schematic stages in protein production 33
Fig. 4.1. Asimov s chronology of science and discovery 90
Fig. 4.2. The progressive growth of knowledge 103
Fig. 4.3. Discontinuous history of knowledge 106
Fig. 4.4. Discontinuous theories of how the Sun shines 112
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