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LEADER: 02497cam a2200313 a 4500
001 2009044582
003 DLC
005 20110424080646.0
008 091102s2010 nyua b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009044582
020 $a9781433105159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1433105152 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn463454363
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dC#P$dYDXCP$dBWX$dCDX$dUBY$dDLC
050 00 $aQ223$b.W45 2010
082 00 $a500.71$222
100 1 $aWeinstein, Matthew,$d1959-
245 10 $aBodies out of control :$brethinking science texts /$cMatthew Weinstein with contributions by Nidda Makki.
260 $aNew York :$bPeter Lang,$cc2010.
300 $a144 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aComplicated conversation,$x1534-2816 ;$vv. 30
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aScience texts -- Gnotobiology : utopias of science and adolescence -- Disease, textbooks, and identity -- Cancer and bodies out of control -- Anthrax and a public pedagogy of science -- Anthrax and a public pedagogy of the nation -- Guinea pig resistance -- Love and range.
520 $a"What is the cultural politics of science, health, and disease in the U.S.? Bodies Out of Control explores this question through a series of case studies. From its in-depth examination of the discussions of sickle-cell anemia, schistosomiasis, and cancer in middle school and high school textbooks to its analysis of the news coverage of the anthrax attacks of 2001, the book reveals the entanglements of science, colonialism, nationalism, and identity. The book also explores how the meaning of science itself is worked through in public discourses, offering alternatively medical salvation, confusion, and a vision of a world without pleasure. Finally, to explore what agency and a critical practice of engaging science in classrooms and elsewhere might look like, the book turns to the writings of politicized human research subjects, which demonstrate a spectrum of possibilities for more democratic engagements with science. As a whole, the book emphasizes the importance of engaging texts critically in science education and the ways that the cultural politics of science works through images of human and institutional bodies in and out of control."--Publisher's description.
650 0 $aCommunication in science$xMethodology.
650 0 $aScience$xTextbooks.
650 0 $aTextbooks$xReadability.
650 0 $aScience news.
830 0 $aComplicated conversation ;$vv. 30.