"Examines the medical discourse on abortion in the United States from the 1800s to the 1960s. Demonstrates that abortion was seen as a sign of social pathology indicating undoing of civilization" ... Provided by publisher.
Towards more progressive views of scientific literacy in science museums -- Science communication, public engagement and science museums -- Generations of science museums : changing roles, changing goals -- Engaging controversy -- Deconstructing science : A question of truth -- …
Wittgenstein's May-June 1913 critique of Russell's multiple-relation theory of judgement (or MRTJ) marked a crucial turning point in the lives of two great twentieth-century thinkers. It was also a watershed moment within the history of analytic philosophy itself. Yet scholarly …
The Christological Controversy describes the turmoil of fifth-century Christianity seeking to articulate its beliefs on the person of Christ. The policies of the Theodosian dynasty and the conflicting interests of the patriarchal sees are the context of the controversy between N…
"The Orce Man controversy is a very long, complicated and harsh dispute among scientific colleagues (often from the same institution) over the taxonomic classification of a cranial fragment. The fossil was found in 1982 by three palaeontologists from the Institut de Paleontologi…
Shelby Hunt analyses the major controversies in the philosophical debates currently raging in marketing theory. Using an historical approach, he argues against relativism and for scientific realism as a philosophy for guiding marketing research and theory.