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The Politics of Western Science Science has never been conducted with quite the cold objectivity of popular imagination. On the contrary, as the authors in The Politics of Western Science set out to show, science has always been carried out within a relationship which maintains a dialogue with the political issues of its particular time. The collection provides an overview for the nonspecialist showing just how political choices... Full description
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These essays interpret the political meaning and uses of science from the onset of the scientific revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union. They ratify the point that we now see science as a human artifact capable of being implicated in our political ideologies and social values.
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- PublisherHumanities Press International Inc
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0391038346
- ISBN 13 9780391038349
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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