The Racial Economy of Science
Toward a Democratic Future
Published on 1. January 1993
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-0-253-32693-5 (ISBN)
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"Sandra Harding is an intellectually fearless scholar. She assembled a bold, impressive collection of essays to make a volume of illuminating power. This brilliantly edited book is essential reading for all who seek understanding of the multicultural debates of our age. Never has a book been more timely." - Darlene Clark Hine. Fueled by the declining legitimacy of Western authority and by critiques of Eurocentrism, a number of widely acclaimed analyses of the sciences have recently appeared. Sandra Harding draws from this body of scholarship to assemble an anthology of classic essays by Third World and Western thinkers who link the sciences to local, national, and international projects for making and remaking democracy.
In this rich, diverse collection, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, political theorists, and scientists treat a wide range of issues: revaluating the sciences in premodern high cultures of China, Africa, and the Andes; disputes over science's legitimation of culturally approved definitions of race difference, from craniology to the measurement of IQ; overcoming the dependence of Third World research on First World agendas; race, imperialism, and the application of scientific technologies in health and reproductive areas; the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiments; developmental agriculture and applied biology in the Third World; environmental racism and environmental crises in developing countries; questions of values, objectivity, method, and nature in sciences; and visions of programs that create sciences for a democratic world community.
In this rich, diverse collection, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, political theorists, and scientists treat a wide range of issues: revaluating the sciences in premodern high cultures of China, Africa, and the Andes; disputes over science's legitimation of culturally approved definitions of race difference, from craniology to the measurement of IQ; overcoming the dependence of Third World research on First World agendas; race, imperialism, and the application of scientific technologies in health and reproductive areas; the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiments; developmental agriculture and applied biology in the Third World; environmental racism and environmental crises in developing countries; questions of values, objectivity, method, and nature in sciences; and visions of programs that create sciences for a democratic world community.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 b&w photos, 2 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-32693-5 (9780253326935)
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Preface Introduction: Eurocentric Scientific Illiteracy--A Challenge for the World Community Sandra Harding I. Early Non-Western Scientific Traditions Poverties and Triumphs of the Chinese Scientific Tradition Joseph Needham Black Athena: Hostilities to Egypt in the Eighteenth Century Martin Bernal Early Andean Experimental Agriculture Jack Weatherford II. Science Constructs ORaceO American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin: Blacks and Indians as Separate, Inferior Species Stephen Jay Gould Racial Classifications: Popular and Scientific Gloria A. Marshall The Study of Race S.L. Washburn On the Nonexistence of Human Races Frank B. Livingstone IQ: The Rank Ordering of the World R.C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin The Health of Black Folk: Disease, Class, and Ideology in Science Nancy Krieger and Mary Bassett Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism Nancy Leys Stepan and Sander L. Gilman III. Who Gets to Do Science? Aesculapius Was a White Man: Race and the Cult of True Womanhood Ronald T. Takaki Co-Laborer-in the Work of the Lord: Nineteenth-century Black Women Physicians Darlene Clark Hine Ernest Everett Just: The role of Foundation Support for Black Scientists 1920-1929 Kenneth R. Manning Never Meant to Survive: A Black WomanOs Journey--An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds Aimee Sands Increasing the Participation of Black Women in Science and Technology Shirley Malcom Without More Minorities, Women, Disabled, U.S. Scientific Failure Certain, Fed Study Says Eileen M. OOBrien Modern Science and the Periphery: The Characteristics of Dependent Knowledge Susantha Goonatilake IV. ScienceOs Technologies and Applications The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: OA Moral AstigmatismO James Jones Calling the Shots? The International Politics of Depo-Provera Phillida Bunkle Colonialism and the Evolution of Masculinist Forestry Vandana Shiva Applied Biology in the Third World: The Struggle for Revolutionary Science Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin Environmental Racism Karl Grossman V. Objectivity, Method, and Nature: Value Neutral? Methods and Values in Science National Academy of Sciences Nazi Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge Robert Proctor Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science Nancy Leys Stepan The Bio-politics of a Multicultural Field Donna Haraway Cultural Differences in High-Energy Physics: Contrasts between Japan and the United States Sharon Traweek The ORelevanceO of Anthropology to Colonialism and Imperialism Jack Stauder VI. The Future: Toward a Democratic Strategy For World Sciences Science and Democracy: A Fundamental Correlation Joseph Needham PeopleOs Science Bill Zimmerman et al. Science and Black People Editorial, The Black Scholar Science, Technology and Black Community Development Robert C. Johnson Towards a Democratic Strategy for Science: The New Politics of Science David Dickson Modern Science in Crisis: A Third World Response Third World Network Name Index