Galileo's middle finger - heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science
Häftad bok. 2016. 349 sidor.
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- ISBN
- 9780143108115
- Titel
- Galileo's middle finger - heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science
- Författare
- Dreger, Alice Domurat
- Utgivningsår
- 2016
- Omfång
- 349 sidor
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- An investigation of some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo's Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger's experiences on the front lines of scientific controversy, where for two decades she has worked as an advocate for victims of unethical research while also defending the right of scientists to pursue challenging research into human identities. Dreger's own attempts to reconcile academic freedom with the pursuit of justice grew out of her research into the treatment of people born intersex (formerly called hermaphrodites). Among the subjects she covers in the book are the anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, falsely accused in a bestselling book of committing genocide against a South American tribe; the psychologist Michael Bailey, accused of abusing transgender women; and the evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, accused of fomenting rightwing ideas about human nature. Galileo's Middle Finger describes Dreger's long and harrowing journey back and forth between the two camps for which she felt equal empathy: social justice warriors and researchers determined to put truth before politics.
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