- Bib ID:
- 2976619
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lacey, Hugh
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999
- xiv, 285 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0415208203 (hardback)
- Summary:
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In this book, Hugh Lacey explicates and appraises the view that science is value free. Lacey discusses how science and values interact, with a focus on a discussion of development, and science's place in development - particularly in third-world countries.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: the idea that science is value free
- 2. Values
- 3. Cognitive values
- 4. Science as value free: provisional theses
- 5. Scientific understanding
- 6. The control of nature
- 7. Kuhn: scientific activity in different 'worlds'
- 8. A "grassroots empowerment" approach
- 9. A feminist approach
- 10. Science as value free: revised theses
- 11. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-280) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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