INTRODUCTION
Defining Frontiers in the History and Philosophy of Science ... vii
William H. Krieger
SECTION 1: ACTUALLY LEARNING FROM HISTORY ....................... 1
1 Rhetoric and Faith in the Hippocratic Philosophy of
Medicine ..................................................... 3
Adam D. Roth
2 The Wisdom in Wood Rot: Finding God in Early-Modern
Scientific Explanation ...................................... 17
Eric Palmer
3 In Defense of "Rationalist" Science ......................... 35
Anya Plutynski
4 Lost Science, Deepwater Shipwrecks, and the Wheelbarrow of
Archimedes .................................................. 51
Bridget Buxton
5 Removing the "Grand" from Grand Unified Theories: An
Archaeological Case for Epistemological and Methodological
Disunity .................................................... 73
William H. Krieger
6 The Virus As Metaphor In American Popular Culture,
1967-2010 ................................................... 89
Steven C. Hatch
7 Gender, Germs, and Dirt ..................................... 99
Sharyn Clough
SECTION 2: THE OTHER SIDE(S) OF SCIENCE ....................... 111
8 The Agnostic Scientist: The Supernatural and the Open-
Ended Nature of Science .................................... 113
Brian L. Keeley
9 Participating in a Contentious Natural Resource Debate as
a Scientist: For Better or For Worse ....................... 123
Yuri Yamamoto
10 Conflicting Values in Post-publication Disputes: The Case
of Transgenic DNA in Mexican Maize ......................... 147
Lawrence Souder
11 On Scientific Advocacy: Putting Values and Interests
in Their Place ............................................. 157
Evelyn Brister
12 Bias, Impartiality, and Conflicts of Interest in
Biomedical Sciences ........................................ 175
Kristen Intemann and Inmaculada de Melo-Martin
13 Science, Religion, and Duty in Parenting Choices ........... 195
Glenn Sanford
Bibliography .................................................. 205
Index ......................................................... 225
About the Contributors ........................................ 229
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