Science as Culture

Volume 8  Number 4  December 1999

‘In recent times, the social effects of scientific discoveries and inventions have been so earth-shaking that a large number of journals has arisen, occupied by the social consequences of the natural sciences. Among the very best of these journals, in my opinion, is Science as Culture, and it has all my blessings.’—the late Joseph Needham, FRS, FBA

CONTENTS

IS SCIENCE STUDIES LOST IN THE KUHNIAN PLOT?: On The Way Back From Paradigms to Movements 405
Steve Fuller

GLOBAL CLIMATE SCIENCE, UNCERTAINTY AND POLITICS:
Data-laden Models, Model-filtered Data 437
Paul N. Edwards

THE SPECTRE OF COLOUR: A Sociobiological Paradigm 473
Barbara Saunders

FROM WEST TO NON-WEST? Basalla’s Three-stage Model Revisited 497
Dhruv Raina

REVIEWS
Anti-Sweat Politics 517
Norm Diamond

Is Psychoanalysis a Science? 525
Jeffrey S. Librett

Reflexive Reflections 535
Nick Crossley

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 541

Science as Culture

Volume 8  Number 3  September 1999

‘In recent times, the social effects of scientific discoveries and inventions have been so earth-shaking that a large number of journals has arisen, occupied by the social consequences of the natural sciences. Among the very best of these journals, in my opinion, is Science as Culture, and it has all my blessings.’—the late Joseph Needham, FRS, FBA

CONTENTS
Rubbish Values: Reflections on the Political Economy of Waste 269
Martin O’Brien

SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN MEXICO: From the Experiment of
National Capitalism to the Crisis of Globalization 297
Hugo Aboites

XENOTRANSPLANTATION: Normalizing Disgust 327
Nik Brown

TEACHING SCIENCE FROM A WORLD-CULTURAL VIEW POINT 357
Alok Kumar and Ronald A. Brown

THE SCIENTIST AS PIONEER HERO: Hollywood’s Mythological

Reconciliations in Twister and Contact 371
Geoff King

REVIEWS
Herpes Hype 381
Nicki Thorogood

CyberMaterial 389
Tiziana Terranova

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 395

Science as Culture

Volume 8  Number 2  June 1999

‘In recent times, the social effects of scientific discoveries and inventions have been so earth-shaking that a large number of journals has arisen, occupied by the social consequences of the natural sciences. Among the very best of these journals, in my opinion, is Science as Culture, and it has all my blessings.’—the late Joseph Needham, FRS, FBA

CONTENTS

Special Issue: BIOLOGISTIC METAPHORS, THEN AND NOW

EDITORIAL 125

SOCIOBIOLOGY SANITIZED: Evolutionary Psychology and Gene
Selectionism 129
Val Dusek

ON DARWINIAN DISCOURSE, PART II: Re-anthropologizing Nature
by Naturalizing Competitive Man 171
Julio Muñoz-Rubio

‘MALTHUS ON MAN: In Animals No Moral Restraint’ 189
Robert M. Young

TRANSFORMINGGENES: Metaphors of Information and Language
in Modern Genetics 209
Adam M. Hedgecoe

REVIEWS
Western Civilization Invented, Constructed, and Desecrated 231
Monty Neill

Modernization in East Asia: Alternate Theories of Science 239
Dhruv Raina

Whose Misunderstanding? 251
Les Levidow

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 257

Science as Culture

Volume 8  Number 1  March 1999

‘In recent times, the social effects of scientific discoveries and inventions have been so earth-shaking that a large number of journals has arisen, occupied by the social consequences of the natural sciences. Among the very best of these journals, in my opinion, is Science as Culture, and it has all my blessings.’—the late Joseph Needham, FRS, FBA

CONTENTS

CYBER-MONOPOLY: A Web of Techno-myths 5
Vincent Mosco

PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY VS INDUSTRIAL CONTROL? 23
Roli Varma

ON DARWINIAN DISCOURSE, PART I: Political Economy Naturalized 47
Julio Muñoz-Rubio

BIG PULP VS ZAPATISTAS: Cellulose Dreams in Southeastern Mexico 75
John Ross

MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE IN HISTORY AND CULTURE 83
Sal Restivo

REVIEWS
Double Trouble: Social Analyses of the New Human Genetics 97
Anne Kerr

Seizing the Ecofeminist Moment 105
Caroline New

The New Face of War 113
Ronald L. Hughes

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 119

Science as Culture

Volume 7  Number 4  December 1998

‘In recent times, the social effects of scientific discoveries and inventions have been so earth-shaking that a large number of journals has arisen, occupied by the social consequences of the natural sciences. Among the very best of these journals, in my opinion, is Science as Culture, and it has all my blessings.’—the late Joseph Needham, FRS, FBA

CONTENTS

Special Issue: NATURAL CONTRADICTIONS

GUEST EDITORS: Peter Taylor and Yrjö Haila

GUEST EDITORIAL: NATURAL CONTRADICTIONS: Links between
Ecological Science and Environmental Politics 445
Peter Taylor and Yrjö Haila

HOW DOES THE COMMONS BECOME TRAGIC? Simple Models as
Complex Socio-political Constructions 449
Peter Taylor

POLITICAL UNDERCURRENTS OF MODERN ECOLOGY 465
Yrjö Haila

NEWTONIAN ECOLOGY AND BEYOND 493
Douglas H. Boucher

THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF DEFORESTATION IN CENTRAL
AMERICA 519
John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto

THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL IN EXPLANATORY THEORIES 557
Richard Levins

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 583

TITLE PAGE AND CONTENTS, VOLUME 7 585

Science as Culture

Volume 7  Number 3  September 1998

‘In recent times, the social effects of scientific discoveries and inventions have been so earth-shaking that a large number of journals has arisen, occupied by the social consequences of the natural sciences. Among the very best of these journals, in my opinion, is Science as Culture, and it has all my blessings.’—the late Joseph Needham, FRS, FBA

CONTENTS

LEVERAGING OUR SOULS? Psychology in the Era of Health Care Reform 317
David Pingitore

AESTHETICS VS ANAESTHETIC: How Laughing Gas got Serious 335
Santiago Colás

DIGITAL DIPLOMA MILLS: The Automation of Higher Education 355
David F. Noble

REPORT FROM THE DIGITAL DIPLOMA MILLS CONFERENCE 369
Langdon Winner

SICKLE CELL TRAIT, POLICY AND RESEARCH PARADIGMS 379
Carol I. Barash

REVIEWS
Saving Whose Planet? 393
Sarah Sexton

Pouring Warm Milk on Troubled Waters 403
Anthony Arundel

Fordism in Mexico: Globalization vs Ethnoscience 413
Don Parson

Country Ways 419
Stephen Fineman

Enduring Self-Health 423
Rosi Braidotti

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 431

Science as Culture

Volume 7  Number 2  June 1998

‘In recent times, the social effects of scientific discoveries and inventions have been so earth-shaking that a large number of journals has arisen, occupied by the social consequences of the natural sciences. Among the very best of these journals, in my opinion, is Science as Culture, and it has all my blessings.’—the late Joseph Needham, FRS, FBA

CONTENTS

Special Issue: STRATEGIZING COUNTER-EXPERTISE

Guest Editors: Kim Fortun and Todd Cherkasky

GUEST EDITORIAL: Strategizing Counter-expertise 141

COUNTER-EXPERTISE AND THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION 145
Kim Fortun and Todd Cherkasky

INSTITUTIONALIZING INDIRECTION: Science at the Crossroads of
Scholarship and Politics 173
Michael Fortun

THE BHOPAL DISASTER: Advocacy and Expertise 193
Kim Fortun

NEW DEMOCRACY AND OLD SOCIETY: A Personal Journey through
Student and Grassroots Activism in Taiwan 217
Hsin-Hsing Chen

LABOUR–MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIPS: Interpretive Strategies in
Workplace Change 243
Todd Cherkasky

INFERTILITY AS A MEDICAL PROBLEM: Recasting Feminist
Accounts of Nature, Science, and the Law 265
Elizabeth C. Britt

RACE, VIOLENCE, AND PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY: The Politics of
Research at the OTA
Gerard Fergerson 285

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 311

Science as Culture

Volume 7  Number 1  March 1998

‘In recent times, the social effects of scientific discoveries and inventions have been so earth-shaking that a large number of journals has arisen, occupied by the social consequences of the natural sciences. Among the very best of these journals, in my opinion, is Science as Culture, and it has all my blessings.’
--the late Joseph Needham, FRS, FBA

CONTENTS

NATURAL SELECTION: A Heavy Hand in Biological and Social
Thought 5
Peter Taylor

BIOCOLONIALISM AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE 33
Laurie Anne Whitt

BIOMEDICAL CONTROL AND DIABETES CARE 69
Matthew R. Davis

WHEN HARRY MET SANDRA: An Alternative Engagement after
the Science Wars 95
Mark Elam and Oskar Juhlin

REVIEWS
The Gendered Politics of Disembodied Space 111
Tiziana Terranova

Provincial History of Science 117
David Mercer

Scientific Learnings 123
Daniel Dunlap

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 129