Bodies Out of Control : Rethinking Science Texts

Matthew Weinstein

ISBN 10: 1433105152 / ISBN 13: 9781433105159

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2009

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bodies Out of Control : Rethinking Science Texts
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433105152
• ISBN 13: 9781433105159
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 9D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 235 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

The Author: Matthew Weinstein is Associate Professor of science education at the University of Washington-Tacoma. He is the author of Robot World: Education, Popular Culture, Science (Lang, 1998) as well as numerous articles about the cultural politics of science education.