Contributions

  • Marchessault, Janine - Contributor
  • Sawchuk, Kim - Contributor

Publication

2000 - Routledge, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

64,750 words, Guess

Page Count

259 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCRA418.5.M4 W54 2000

Description

"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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Writing corporealities

Other Editions

  • Wild science: reading feminism, medicine, and the mediaRoutledge2000-01-01

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