Science and narratives of nature : east and west /: east and west. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jobin M. Kanjirakkat, Gordon McOuat and Sundar Sarukkai.
• Editors: Kanjirakkat, Jobin M; McOuat, Gordon; Sarukkai, Sundar
• Contents: 1.Post-humanist `narratives of (non-)nature' and the sciences / Stephen Healy -- 2.Nature, body and woman: an Indian perspective on value dualisms / Meera Baindur -- 3.Revealed truth and homosexuality in the West: Christianity and science in Foucaultian perspective / Yiftach Fehige -- 4.Feminist epistemology and postcolonial science studies / Kathleen Okruhlik -- 5.Is food natural or cultural? Food, body and the mind in Indian medical traditions / V. Sujatha -- 6.Placing and moving knowledge: East and West, North and South / Stephen Bocking -- 7.`Why did exchange of knowledge across Eurasia generate a Scientific Revolution in the West?' / Arun Bala -- 8.Nineteenth-century science and Western materialisms / Bernard Lightman -- 9.Eastern mathematics, Western mathematics: shall the Twain ever meet? / George Gheverghese Joseph -- 10.On the nature of mathematics and scientific knowledge in Indian tradition / M. D. Srinivas -- 11.See what I mean? On developing norms for the production and publication of scientific images / Letitia Meynell -- 12.The `relocation' of technology between East and West: stationary steam engines and steamboats in India in the early nineteenth century / David Philip Miller -- 13.The production and distribution of pharmaceutical clinical trial knowledge: case studies in the political economy of scientific knowledge / Sergio Sismondo.
• Publisher Details: New Delhi, India : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 501; Science -- Philosphy; Nature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351549851; 1351549855
• Related ISBNs: 1138900893; 9781138900899
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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