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Science Cultures in a Diverse World: Knowing, Sharing, Caring
Science and technology culture is now more than ever at the very heart of the social project, and all countries, to varying degrees, participate in it: raising scientific literacy, improving the image of the sciences, involving the public in debates and encouraging the young to pursue careers in the sciences. Thus, the very destiny of any society is now entwined with its ability to develop a genuine science and technology culture, accessible for participation not only to the few who, by virtue of their training or trade, work in the science and technology fields, but to all, thereby creating occasions for society to debate and to foster a positive dialogue about the directions of change and ...
EBOOK: Science, Technology and Culture
Lifestyle media – books, magazines, websites, radio andtelevision shows that focus on topics such as cookery,gardening, travel and home improvement – have witnessed anexplosion in recent years. Ordinary Lifestyles explores how popular media texts bring ideasabout taste and fashion to consumers, helping audiences tofashion their lifestyles as well as defining what constitutes anappropriate lifestyle for particular social groups. Contemporaryexamples are used throughout, including Martha Stewart, HouseDoctor, What Not to Wear, You Are What You Eat, CountryLiving and brochures for gay and lesbian holiday promotions. The contributors show that watching make-over television orcooking from a c...
Visual Cultures in Science and Technology
This book aims to provide a synthesis of the history, generation, use, and transfer of images in scientific practice. It delves into the rich reservoir of case studies on visual representations in scientific and technological practice that have accumulated over the past couple of decades by historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science. The main aim is thus located on the meta-level. It adopts an integrative view of recurrently noted general features of visual cultures in science and technology, something hitherto unachieved and believed by many to be a mission impossible. By systematic comparison of numerous case studies, the purview broadens away from myopic microanalysis in search...
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-western Cultures
Offer more than six hundred entries on developments in Asia, Africa, the Islamic world, Native America, and the Pacific
Science, Technology and Culture
"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Articles" -- "INTRODUCTION" -- "TOWARDS A CRITICAL CULTURAL STUDIES OF COLONIAL SCIENCE" -- "REPRODUCING YOSEMITE: OLMSTED, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND THE NATURE OF AESTHETIC AGENCY" -- "INTERSPECIES REPRODUCTION: XENOGENIC DESIRE AND THE FEMINIST IMPLICATIONS OF HYBRIDS" -- "CYBERNETICS AND AMERICAN YOUTH SUBCULTURE" -- "INTELLIGENT AGENCY" -- "IMAX TECHNOLOGY AND THE TOURIST GAZE
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.
Science, Technologies and Material Culture in the History of Education
This book explores the interconnections between the histories of science, technologies and material culture, and the history of education, expressing concern over the extent to which the history of science and technology and the history of education are too frequently written about separately, despite their connections. The contributions to this
Living in a Technological Culture
Challenging traditionally held assumptions about the relationship between "man and machine" this book opens up wider debate on the shape of things to come and whether we should be trying to change them now.
