Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Science and Culture

by Keller,Evelyn Fox

• ISBN13: 9780415905251
• ISBN10: 0415905257
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317857204
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

The essays included here represent Fox Keller's attempts to integrate the insights of feminist theory with those of her contemporaries in the history and philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Gender and Science: An Update	p. 15
From Secrets of Life to Secrets of Death	p. 39
Secrets of God, Nature, and Life	p. 56
Critical Silences in Scientific Discourse: Problems of Form and Re-Form	p. 73
Fractured Images of Science, Language, and Power	p. 93
Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory: Part I	p. 113
Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory: Part II	p. 128
Demarcating Public from Private Values in Evolutionary Discourse	p. 144
Between Language and Science: The Question of Directed Mutation in Molecular Genetics	p. 161
Epilogue	p. 179
References	p. 183
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