Sacred bovines : the ironies of misplaced assumptions in biology /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Sacred Bovines; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Prologue: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions; Part I The Way of Science; 1 Monsters and Marvels; 2 Ahead of the Curve; 3 Marxism and Cell Biology; 4 The Messy Story behind the Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology; 5 The Dogma of "the" Scientific Method; Part II Darwin, Evolution, and Society; 6 Was Darwin a Social Darwinist?; 7 Social Un-Darwinism; 8 A More Fitting Analogy; 9 The Domesticated Gene; Part III Making Mistakes; 10 A Comedy of Scientific Errors; 11 Nobel Ideals and Noble Errors; 12 Celebrating Darwin's Errors
- Part IV What Counts as Science13 Science beyond Scientists; 14 Skepticism and the Architecture of Trust; 15 Science Con Artists; Part V Naturalizing Cultural Values; 16 Male, Female, and/or -?; 17 Monsters and the Tyranny of Normality; 18 To Be Human; 19 Genes R Us; 20 The Peppered Moths, A Study in Black and White; Part VI Myth-Conceptions; 21 Alexander Fleming's "Eureka" Moment; 22 Round versus Wrinkled: Gregor Mendel as Icon; 23 William Harvey and Capillaries; 24 The Tragic Hero of Childbed Fever; Part VII Values and Biology Education; 25 Respect for Life; 26 Hands-Off Dissection?
- 27 Organisms, Modified, Genetically28 Close to Nature; Epilogue: Challenging Sacred Bovines, Fostering Creativity; Afterword for Educators: Sacred Bovines in the Classroom; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Image Credits; Index