Ideology of/in the Natural Sciences

Edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose,
with an Introductory Essay by Ruth Hubbard

Contents

Introductory Essay: The Many Faces of Ideology                     ix

RUTH HUBBARD

 

Acknowledgements                                                                 xxvii

 

Editors’ Introduction                                                              xxxi


Errata                                                                                     xliv

 

Part 1—The Political Economy of Science                             1

 

1       The Problematic Inheritance: Marx and Engels                    3

         on the Natural Sciences

         HILARY ROSE and STEVEN ROSE

 

2       The Incorporation of Science                                           16

         HILARY ROSE and STEVEN ROSE

 

3       On the Class Character of Science and Scientists             34

         ANDRÉ GORZ

 

4       Contradictions of Science and Technology in the              47

         Productive Process

         MIKE COOLEY

 

5       The Politics of Neurobiology: Biologism in the                  71

         Service of the State

         STEVEN ROSE and HILARY ROSE

 

6       Scientific Racism and Ideology: The IQ Racket                 87

         from Galton to Jensen

         STEVEN ROSE

 

7       Women's Liberation: Reproduction and the                    117

         Technological Fix

         HILARY ROSE and JALNA HANMER

 

8       A Critique of Political Ecology                                       136

         HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER

 

Part 2—The Radicalisation of Science                               171

 

9       The Problem of Lysenkoism                                           173

         RICHARD LEWONTIN and RICHARD LEVINS

 

10      Women in Physics                                                         206

          MONIQUE COUTURE‑CHERKI

 

11      Sciences, Women and Ideology                                    217

          LILIANE STEHELIN

 

12      History and Human Values: A Chinese Perspective        231

          for World Science and Technology

         JOSEPH NEEDHAM

 

13      Science, Technology and Black Liberation                     259

          SAM ANDERSON

 

14      Ideology of/in Contemporary Physics                            277

          JEAN‑MARC LÉVY‑LEBLOND

 

Notes and References                                                            317

 

Index                                                                                     353



SOURCE: Rose, Steven; Rose, Hilary; eds. 1980. Ideology of/in the Natural Sciences, with an introductory essay by Ruth Hubbard. Cambridge, MA: Shenkman Publishing Co., 1980. xxix, 363 pp. Contents, pp. vii-viii.


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