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Amy Gilligan: Review: Science and industry
International Socialism Journal nr. 131, jul 11 – side 221
Note: David Knight, The Making of Modern Science (Polity, 2009), £17.99
There prevails in society the notion that the practice of science is somehow objective and neutral. However, when we look at the way funding is allocated and what research is undertaken it quickly becomes clear that this is not the case. By looking at the history of science we can see this is not a new development.
 

Penny Howard: Book review: Sharing history
International Socialism Journal nr. 127, jul 10 – side 202
Note: Thomas C Patterson, Karl Marx, Anthropologist (Berg, 2009), £19.99
Karl Marx, Anthropologist is a fascinating and very wide ranging book, which draws on Patterson’s almost 50 years of study of both Marxism and anthropology.
 

John Parrington: How to make learning science fun
Socialist Worker nr. 2183, jan 10 – side 12
Note: A recent report condemning British schools for damaging learning reminded me of a great educational project I took part in at a comprehensive in Bradford last year, writes John Parrington
 

David Seddon: Book review: Starting at the bottom
International Socialism Journal nr. 123, jul 09 – side 207
Note: Heidi Armbruster and Anna Laerke (eds), Taking Sides: Ethics, Politics and Fieldwork in Anthropology (Berghahn Books, 2008), £45
I enjoyed reading this collection—in part because it reminded me of when I was at the London School of Economics as a graduate student in social anthropology. This was in 1968, when there was a good deal of discussion about the politics of anthropology—mainly coming across the Atlantic from the US and exemplified most memorably by Current Anthropology’s “symposium on social responsibilities”.
 

John Baxter: Book review: “We can always shoot them later”
International Socialism Journal nr. 122, apr 09 – side 201
Note: The post-war period was a time of rapid reconstruction and modernisation in the Soviet Union, and science and technology were expected to play a huge part in the process. As such, the rewards and prestige for those working in Soviet science were particularly high. But the risks were great too. Whole academic disciplines could find themselves out of favour—academics might be arrested or killed if their ideas were deemed unpatriotic or “anti-Soviet”.
 

John Parrington: Book review: Bad Science
Socialist Review nr. 329, okt 08 – side 27
Note: by Ben Goldacre, Fourth Estate, £12.99
Under modern capitalism our lives are increasingly dependent on scientific and technological advances, from mobile phones and MP3 players to the latest drug or surgical treatment. Yet at the same time there is also much public fear and misunderstanding about science. In Bad Science Ben Goldacre, most widely known for his Guardian column of the same name, investigates the consequences of such fear and ignorance, specifically in relation to the biomedical sciences and the various alternative health movements that have sprung up in opposition to them.
 

Neil Faulkner: Gordon Childe and Marxist archaeology
International Socialism Journal nr. 116, okt 07 – side 81
Note: It may not be an accident that Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957), perhaps the greatest archaeologist of the 20th century, committed suicide within a year of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. For Childe was not just a leading academic, prehistorian and social theorist; he was also, throughout his adult life, an active and deeply committed socialist, but one who retained illusions in Stalinism to the end.
 

Chris Harman: Book reviews: Empty method man (Kieran Allen: "Max Weber: A Critical Introduction")
International Socialism Journal nr. 105, dec 04 – side 171
Note: This is a very critical introduction to the theorist who is still being presented to generations of sociology students as the ‘liberal’, ‘value free’ and ‘sophisticated’ alternative to the supposed ‘economic reductionism’ of Karl Marx. As such it will be extremely useful to teachers and students alike.
 

Jan Hoby: Social-Darwinismens forklaringsproblem
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 217, aug 03 – side 9
Note: Social-Darwinisterne er under voldsomt pres. De forsøger på stadigt mere raffinerede måder at bevise, at der er naturlige forklaringer på, hvorfor magtfordelingen i samfundet er som den er.
 

Rob Hoveman: History of theory (Alex Callinicos: "Social Theory: A Historical Introduction")
International Socialism Journal nr. 85, dec 99 – side 145
 

Margit Johansen: Niels Bohr på Betty Nansen-teatret: Forskning, etik og magtpolitik
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 176, okt 99 – side 8
Note: Da videnskabsmanden Niels Bohr i 1943 flygtede fra Danmark, blev han fløjet til USA og blev et centralt medlem af Los Alamos temaet, der under 2. verdenskrig udviklede atombomben i USA.
 

Phil Gasper: Bookwatch: Marxism and science
International Socialism Journal nr. 79, jun 98 – side 137
Note: A comprehensive survey of classic and contemporary books on the subject.
 

John Parrington: It's life Jim, but not as we know it (Steven Rose: "Lifelines")
International Socialism Journal nr. 78, mar 98 – side 105
Note: John Parrington also looks at dialectics in his review of Steven Rose's new book 'Lifelines'.
 

John Baxter: The return of political science (Margaret C Jacob (ed.): "The Politics of Western Science, 1640-1990" + Robert B Silvers (ed.): "Hidden Histories of Science")
International Socialism Journal nr. 77, dec 97 – side 111
Note: John Baxter looks at the politics of science.
 

Frank Antonsen: Hvad er intelligens?
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 164, aug 97 – side 6
Note: 1997 er udnævnt til “Hjerneår” – året hvor udforskningen af intelligensen skal styrkes. Men begrebet intelligens bliver ofte brugt til at forsvare og undskylde samfundets uretfærdigheder.
 

Richard Levins: When science fails us
International Socialism Journal nr. 72, sep 96 – side 59
Note: RICHARD LEVINS is a biologist best known for co-authoring the highly praised book, The Dialectical Biologist. He founded Science for Vietnam and Science for the People in the United States. He refused nomination to the National Academy of Science in the early 1970s because of that organisation's role as an adviser to the government's war effort in Vietnam. This year he was awarded the 1996 Edinburgh Medal at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. His address to the festival, 'When science fails us', is a critique of establishment science and a vindication of a dialectical approach to science.
 

Chris Harman: Blood simple (Chris Knight: "Blood relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture")
International Socialism Journal nr. 54, mar 92 – side 169
 

Per Jensen: Anmeldelse: Mærk verden – en reaktionær bog (Tor Nørretranders: "Mærk verden")
International Socialisme nr. 1, feb 92 – side 36
Note: ÅRETS SÆLLERT i 1991 på det danske bogmarked var Tor Nørretranders' bog Mærk Verden. Den gennemgår forskningsresultater fra fysikere, matematikere, hjerneforskere, psykologer, astronomer, filosoffer og andre videnskabsgrene – og som gennemgang af enkelte fremmedord er bogen interessant nok. Men der er ikke kun tale om populær fremstilling af videnskabens resultater, for det er ikke en lærebog eller et videnskabeligt værk, men fordummelseslitteratur.
 

Duncan Blackie: Revolution in science (Stephen Hawking: "A Brief History of Time, from the big bang to black holes")
International Socialism Journal nr. 42, mar 89 – side 115
Note: Many on the left, especially those associated with the Greens, are, at best, suspicious of and, at worst, hostile to science. This has never been an attitude shared by Marxists. In his review of Stephen Hawking's bestseller A Brief History of Time Duncan Blackie explains Hawking's place in the 20th Century revolution in physics and opens a discussion of the relationship between Marxism and modern science.
 

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