Science, Hegemony and Violence (UNU, 1988, 301 p.): 7. Reductionist science as epistemological violence: Notes

Science, Hegemony and Violence (UNU, 1988, 301 p.)

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Preface

1. Introduction: Science as a reason of state

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2. Francis Bacon, the first philosopher of modern science: A non-western view

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3. Science, colonialism and violence: A luddite view

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4. Atomic physics: The career of an imagination

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5. Violence in modern medicine

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6. Science and violence in popular fiction: Four novels of Ira Levin

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7. Reductionist science as epistemological violence

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8. On the annals of the laboratory state

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Contributors

Notes

1. Paul Feyerabend, Science in a Free Society (London: New Left Books, 1978), p. 98

2. David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981), p. 4.

3. R. Descartes, A Discourse on Method (London: Everyman, 1981), p. xv.

4. Feyerabend, Science in a Free Society, p. 183.

5. Garrett Hardin, 'The Tragedy of the Commons', Science, 13 December 1968, 162, pp. 1243 8.

6. Daniel Fife, 'Killing the Goose', Environment, April 1971, pp. 20-2.

7. Vandana Shiva and J. Bandyopadhyay, Ecological Audit of Eucalyptus Cultivation (Dehra Dun: English Book Depot, 1984).

8. N. S. Kaikini, Proceedings of the Eleventh Silvicultural Conference (Dehra Dun: Forest Research Institute and Colleges, 1967), vol. 1, p. 93.

9. Mahashweta Devi, 'Why Eucalyptus?', Economic and Political Weekly, 6 August 1983, 78, pp. 1379-81.

10. Panduranga Ummaya and Bharat Dogra, 'Planning Trees: Indian Villagers Take the Decision into Their Own Hands', The Ecologist, 1983, 13, p. 186.

11. K. M. Tewari and R. S. Mathur, 'Water Consumption and Nutrient Uptake by Eucalyptus', Indian Forester, 1983, log, p. 851.

12. A. N. Chaturvedi, Eucalyptus for Farming (Lucknow: U.P. Forest Department, 1983), p. 48.

13. Summary Record of the Workshop on Social and Economic Aspects of Eucalyptus (New Delhi: MLP Unit, Planning Commission, 1984), No. p 09/39/84 MLP, dated 22.6.1984, p. 8.

14. Darrell A. Posey, 'Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Development of the Amazon', in Emilio F. Moran (ed.), The Dilemma of Amazonian Developrnent (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1983), p. 234.

15. Paul De Bach, Biological Control by Natural Enemies (London: Cambridge University Press, 1974), p. I.

16. David Bull, Pesticides: A Growing Problem (Oxford: Oxfam, 1982), p. 68.

17. Robert C. Oelhaf, Organic Agriculture (New York: John Wiley, 1978), p. 60.

18. Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975).

19. Stephen Fulder, The Tao of Medicine (New York: Destiny Books, 1982), p. 43

20. Personal Communication from Mira Shiva.

21. Proceedings of Geneva Press Conference on SMON, April 28, 1980 (Tokyo: Organizing Committee of the Geneva Press Conference, 1980), p. 8.

22. Ibid., p. 23.

23. Fulder, The Tao of Medicine, p. 285.