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008			970728s1997 mnu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 97036033
020			_a0816631247 (alk. paper)
020			_a0816631255 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)37499917
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm37499917
035			_a(NNC)2237432
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC _dOrLoB-B
050	0	0	_aQ175.5 _b.F85 1997
082	0	0	_a306.4/5 _221
100	1		_aFuller, Steve, _d1959- _914246
245	1	0	_aScience _cSteve Fuller.
260			_aMinneapolis : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c1997.
300			_aviii, 159 p. ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aConcepts in social thought
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-155) and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tThe Public Understanding of Science: Our Latest Moral Panic -- _g2. _tThe Sociological Peculiarity of the Natural Sciences -- _g3. _t'Science', 'Scientific', 'Scientist': Some Exercises in Conceptual Analysis -- _g4. _tScience as Superstition: A Lost Martian Chronicle -- _g5. _tThe Secret of Science's Success: Convenient Forgetfulness -- _g6. _tWestern Science from the Outside In: The View from Islam and Japan -- _g7. _tScience as the Standard of Civilization: Does it have a Future?
520			_aWhat qualifies such seemingly disparate disciplines as paleontology, high-energy physics, industrial chemistry and genetic engineering as "sciences," and hence worthy of sustained public interest and support? In this innovative and controversial introduction to the social character of scientific knowledge, Steve Fuller argues that if these disciplines share anything at all, it is more likely to be the way they strategically misinterpret their own history than any privileged access to the nature of reality.
520	8		_aThe book features a report written in the persons of a Martian anthropologist who systematically compares religious and scientific institutions on earth, only to find that science does not necessarily live up to its own ideals of rationality. In addition, Fuller highlights science's multicultural nature through a discussion of episodes in which the West's own understanding of science has been decisively affected by its encounters with Islam and Japan.
520	8		_aAn important theme of the book is that science's most attractive feature - its openness to criticism - is threatened by the role it increasingly plays in the maintenance of social and economic order.
650		0	_aScience _xSocial aspects. _99989
830		0	_aConcepts in social thought. _914247
900			_bTOC
942			_2lcc _cMONOGRAPH
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