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Wild science

Janine Marchessault

2000259 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2000
first published
  • 2000Routledge · 259 pages · ENGISBN 9780415204316
  • 2013Taylor & Francis Group · ENGISBN 9781136294501
  • 2013Taylor & Francis Group · ENGISBN 9781136294587
  • 2013Routledge · ENGISBN 9781306047067
  • 2013Taylor & Francis Group · 276 pages · ENGISBN 9781315008851
  • 2013Taylor & Francis Group · 276 pages · ENGISBN 9781136294655

"Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in "health culture." While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with news reports and images of DNA and cloning, the fight against AIDS, cancer and depression. With popular culture the principal means by which the non-scientific community understands illness, health and science, what are the implications of this for national health policies and for what gets funding for research?". "Wild Science argues that science is an everyday practice bound in values and institutions, and calls for a responsible engagement with the public cultures of science and health."--BOOK JACKET.

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