Sacred bovines : the ironies of misplaced assumptions in biology / Douglas Allchin.
This book is a collection of short essays, each challenging a commonplace assumption about biology - playfully dubbed ""Sacred Bovines.""
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions
- Part 1. The Way of Science. Monsters and Marvels ; Ahead of the Curve ; Marxism and Cell Biology ; The Messy Story behind the Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology ; The Dogma of "the" Scientific Method
- Part 2.Darwin, Evolution, and Society. Was Darwin a Social Darwinist? ; Social Un-Darwinism ; A More Fitting Analogy ; The Domesticated Gene
- Part 3. Making Mistakes. A Comedy of Scientific Errors ; Nobel Ideals and Noble Errors ; Celebrating Darwin's Errors
- Part 4. What Counts as Science. Science beyond Scientists ; Skepticism and the Architecture of Trust ; Science Con Artists
- Part 5. Naturalizing Cultural Values. Male, Female, and/or -? ; Monsters and the Tyranny of Normality ; To Be Human ; Genes R Us ; The Peppered Moths, A Study in Black and White
- Part 6. Myth-Conceptions. Alexander Fleming's "Eureka" Moment ; Round versus Wrinkled: Gregor Mendel as Icon ; William Harvey and Capillaries ; The Tragic Hero of Childbed Fever
- Part 7. Values and Biology Education. Respect for Life ; Hands-Off Dissection? ; Organisms, Modified, Genetically ; Close to Nature
- Epilogue: Challenging Sacred Bovines, Fostering Creativity
- Afterword for Educators: Sacred Bovines in the Classroom.