An edition of Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins
(2010)
Biology and ideology from Descartes to Dawkins
by Denis R Alexander, Denis Alexander, Ronald L. Numbers, and Denis R. Alexander
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Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology has been used to justify eugenic programs, forced sterilization, human experimentation, and death camps—all in an attempt to support notions of racial superiority. By investigating the past, the contributors to Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins hope to better prepare us to discern ideological abuse of science when it occurs in the future.
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Table of Contents
The cultural authority of natural history in early modern europe / Peter Harrison
Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France / Shirley A. Roe
Eighteenth-century uses of vitalism in constructing the human sciences / Peter Hanns Reill
Biology in the service of natural theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises / Jonathan R. Topham
Race, empire, and biology before Darwinism / Sujit Sivasundaram
Darwin's choice / Nicolaas Rupke
Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement / Edward J. Larson
Genetics, eugenics, and the holocaust / Paul Weindling
Darwinism, Marxism, and genetics in the Soviet Union: the dialectics of co-evolution / Nikolai Krementsov
Evolution and the idea of social progress / Michael Ruse
Beauty and the beast? : conceptualizing sex in evolutionary narratives / Erika Lorraine Milam
Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology / Ronald L. Numbers
The ideological uses of evolutionary biology in recent atheist apologetics / Alister E. Mcgrath.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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