Morals, Materials, and Technoscience

Probing technoscience

In the last three decades, the attention of sociologists, historians and philosophers of science was more and more attracted by the concept ‘‘technoscience.’’ It emphasizes an entanglement of science and technology and it was mainly raised to distinguish a ‘‘new’’ type of scientific activities from ‘‘traditional’’ ones with a different epistemic interest producing different objects with a diffe...

Reflections on science and technoscience

Technoscientific research, a kind of scientific research conducted within the decontextualized approach (DA), uses advanced technology to produce instruments, experimental objects, and new objects and structures, that enable us to gain knowledge of states of affairs of novel domains, especially knowledge about new possibilities of what we can do and make, with the horizons of practical, industr...

Morals and Medicine

pared to normal synovial cells. This little book reviews these and other measurements in plasma, urine, synovial fluid, tissue extracts and synovial cell culture. The chapter on hormones is notable for its statement that prednisolone is the only drug which can halt the erosive progress of rheumatoid arthritis. This is certainly not the orthodox view of most rheumatologists, and its emphasis cas...

Law, Language and Morals

Meat, morals, and masculinity.

Much research has demonstrated that people perceive consumers of "good," low-fat foods as more moral, intelligent, and attractive, and perceive consumers of "bad," high-fat foods as less intelligent, less moral, and less attractive. Little research has contrasted perceptions of omnivores and vegetarians, particularly with respect to morality and gender characteristics. In two between-subject st...