Science and Technology in a Multicultural World : The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts / David J. Hess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hess, David J., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at what researchers of science and technology, principally anthropologists, historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists have to say about ethical dilemmas, political conflicts, and economic impacts associated with innovations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Cultural Construction of Science and Technology

3. The Origins of Western Science: Technototems in the Scientific Revolution

4. Temporal Cultures and Technoscience

5. The Social Relations and Structures of Scientific and Technical Communities

6. Science and Technology at Large: Cultural Reconstruction in Broader Society

7. Other Ways of Knowing and Doing: The Ethnoknowledges and Non-Western Medicines

8. Cosmopolitan Technologies, Native Peoples, and Resistance Struggles

9. Conclusions: Science, Technology, and the Multicultural Education

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89016-8

OCLC:

1100440545