{"product_id":"biology-as-ideology-richard-lewontin-9780887845185","title":"Biology As Ideology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eR. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: \"Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive structure, and they view nature through a lens that has been molded by their social experience... . Science, like the Church before it, is a supremely social institution, reflecting and reinforcing the dominant values and vices of society at each historical epoch.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Biology as Ideology Lewontin examines the false paths down which modern scientific ideology has led us. By admitting science's limitations, he helps us rediscover the richness of nature -- and appreciate the real value of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenowned geneticist R. C. Lewontin argues that science is a social institution and only by admitting its limitations we can appreciate its real value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Lewontin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0887845185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887845185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e House of Anansi Press Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Richard Lewontin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46401633255679,"sku":"9780887845185","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_849d099b-7b07-484d-98e2-09088c061dcb.jpg?v=1733888181","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/biology-as-ideology-richard-lewontin-9780887845185","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}