Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. By investigating the past, this book features contributors who hope to better prepare us to discern ideological abuse of science when it occurs in the future.
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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. By investigating the past, this book features contributors who hope to better prepare us to discern ideological abuse of science when it occurs in the future. Read more...
Author(s): Numbers, Ronald L.; Alexander, Denis (eds.)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 453
City: Chicago, London
Tags: Biologie -- Philosophie.;Biologie -- Aspect religieux.;Évolution (Biologie) -- Philosophie.;Génétique -- Philosophie.;Eugénisme -- Philosophie.;Évolution (biologie);Biology -- Philosophy.;Biology -- Religious aspects.;Eugenics -- Philosophy.;Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.;Genetics -- Philosophy.;Biologie.;Génétique.;Eugénisme.;Philosophie.;17e siècle-21e siècle (début)
Content: The cultural authority of natural history in early modern europe / Peter Harrison --
Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France / Shirley A. Roe --
Eighteenth-century uses of vitalism in constructing the human sciences / Peter Hanns Reill --
Biology in the service of natural theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises / Jonathan R. Topham --
Race, empire, and biology before Darwinism / Sujit Sivasundaram --
Darwin's choice / Nicolaas Rupke --
Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement / Edward J. Larson --
Genetics, eugenics, and the holocaust / Paul Weindling --
Darwinism, Marxism, and genetics in the Soviet Union: the dialectics of co-evolution / Nikolai Krementsov --
Evolution and the idea of social progress / Michael Ruse --
Beauty and the beast? : conceptualizing sex in evolutionary narratives / Erika Lorraine Milam --
Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology / Ronald L. Numbers --
The ideological uses of evolutionary biology in recent atheist apologetics / Alister E. Mcgrath.
