Science, Politics and the Production of Biological Knowledge: New Trends and Old ChallengesJonathan Marks: Is Science Racist? Polity Press, Cambridge, 2017, 142 pp, Hardcover €44.74, ISBN: 9780745689210 Maurizio Meloni: Political Biology. Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016, 284 pp, Hardcover $150.00, ISBN: 9780199692026

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作者：
Abigail Nieves Delgado
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[1] Ruhr-University Bochum,Centre for Anthropological Knowledge in Scientific and Technological Cultures
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Journal for General Philosophy of Science | 2018年 / 49卷 / 3期
关键词：
Jonathan Marks; Maurizio Meloni; Anthropology; Race; Soft-hard heredity; Politics;
D O I：
10.1007/s10838-018-9406-3
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摘要：
In the history of biology, knowledge about human differences often has been produced through an interaction with politics and values assumed to be external to science. Two recent books—Jonathan Marks’ Is Science Racist? and Maurizio Meloni’s Political Biology—shed new light on this interplay. While Marks looks into the field of anthropology, Meloni offers a historiographical view on the soft-hard heredity debate. Based on these new contributions, this essay addresses a number of current ways in which society and science conceptualize human differences through categories like race, gender, and class. Especially, this refers to the separation of what is taken as natural and purportedly fixed, from what is cultural and changeable.
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