Worlds of ScienceCraft

A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science sociology and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress assumptions about the categories we use to talk about minds identities and bodies are challenged through case studies from mathematics social cognition and medical ethics. Offering innovative approaches to these issues such as an integrated social brain-mind-body model and a critique of divisions between the natural and technological this book provides novel conceptions of self society and an emerging ’cyborg’ generation. From the micro level of brains and expanding all the way out to biopolitical civics disciplinary boundaries are made permeable emphasizing the increased need for interdisciplinary scholarship. By rejecting outdated and restrictive categories and classifications new horizons in studies of science technology and medicine can be explored through the incorporation of feminist international and postmodern perspectives. A truly interdisciplinary examination of science and technology as cultural phenomena Worlds of ScienceCraft will appeal to scholars and students of science and technology studies as well as philosophers historians and sociologists of science technology and medicine.