Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins

Informationen zum Autor Denis R. Alexander is director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion! St Edmund's College! University of Cambridge! and has worked in the biological research community for the past forty years. Ronald L. Numbers is the Hilldale Professor of History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and coeditor of When Science and Christianity Meet! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Over the course of human history! the sciences! and biology in particular! have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. By investigating the past! this book features contributors who hope to better prepare us to discern ideological abuse of science when it occurs in the future. Zusammenfassung Over the course of human history! the sciences! and biology in particular! have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. By investigating the past! this book features contributors who hope to better prepare us to discern ideological abuse of science when it occurs in the future.

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• Authors: Denis R. Alexander, Denis R. (EDT)/ Numbers Alexander, ALEXANDER DENIS R NUMBERS RONAL, Alexander Denis R., Ronald L Numbers, Ronald L. Numbers, Numbers Ronald L.
• Assisted by: Denis R. Alexander (Editor), Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2010
• EAN: 9780226608419
• ISBN: 978-0-226-60841-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, History of Science, Biology, life sciences