Scientific Process and Social Issues in Biology Education 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Allen, Garland E. (Author), Baker, Jeffrey J. W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 331944378X ISBN-13: 9783319443782 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Study & Teaching - Science | History - Philosophy | Reference |
Dewey: 507.1 |
Series: Springer Texts in Education |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.77 lbs) 232 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book complements fact-drive textbooks in introductory biology courses, or courses in biology and society, by focusing on several important points: (1) Biology as a process of doing science, emphasizing how we know what we know. (2) It stresses the role of science as a social as well as intellectual process, one that is always embedded in its time and place in history. In addition to specific examples illustrating one point or another about the process of biology or social-political context, a number of in-depth case studies are used to show how scientific investigations are originated, designed, carried out in particular social/cultural contexts. Among those included are: Migration of monarch butterflies, John Snow's investigations on the cause of cholera, Louis Pasteur's controversy over spontaneous generation, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. |