| 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 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 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 Mu oz-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 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 Mu oz-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 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 Yrj Haila GUEST EDITORIAL: NATURAL CONTRADICTIONS: Links between Ecological Science and Environmental Politics 445 Peter Taylor and Yrj Haila HOW DOES THE COMMONS BECOME TRAGIC? Simple Models as Complex Socio-political Constructions 449 Peter Taylor POLITICAL UNDERCURRENTS OF MODERN ECOLOGY 465 Yrj 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 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 Col s 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 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 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 |