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The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
by Nancy Leys Stepan
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This book addresses the scientific and social movement known as eugenics, a word invented in 1883 (from the Greek eugenes, meaning 'wellborn') by the British scientist Francis Galton to encompass the social uses to which knowledge of heredity could be... (read more)

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The Reenchantment of the World
The Reenchantment of the World
by Morris Berman
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A perspective study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from it, Berman shows how science... (read more)

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Machines As the Measure of Men : Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (89 Edition)
Machines As the Measure of Men : Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (89 Edition)
by Michael Adas
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Adas (history, Rutgers) examines the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority have since the 16th century shaped their interactions with non-Western peoples and cultures--cultures that they judge to... (read more)

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The Maxwellians (Cornell History of Science Series)
The Maxwellians (Cornell History of Science Series)
by Bruce J. Hunt
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