{"title":"Lewontin Richard C","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"biology-as-ideology-book-richard-lewontin-9780887845185","title":"Biology As Ideology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eR. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive structure, and they view nature through a lens that has been molded by their social experience... . Science, like the Church before it, is a supremely social institution, reflecting and reinforcing the dominant values and vices of society at each historical epoch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Biology as Ideology Lewontin examines the false paths down which modern scientific ideology has led us. By admitting science's limitations, he helps us rediscover the richness of nature -- and appreciate the real value of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenowned geneticist R. C. Lewontin argues that science is a social institution and only by admitting its limitations we can appreciate its real value.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909025866001,"sku":"CIN0887845185G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50430950736145,"sku":"CIN0887845185VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009554284817,"sku":"NIN9780887845185","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52656507519249,"sku":"NLS9780887845185","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0887845185.jpg?v=1750705094"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-lewontin-richard-c.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}