Scientific Process: Case Studies on Science in Social Context

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. Evolution and Intelligent Design

1. First word (Alex Levine)

2. Natural Theology, Ch. 1–3 (William Paley)

3. “Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication” (From Origin of Species, Ch. 6, by Charles Darwin)

4. Living with Darwin, Ch. 1 (Philip Kitcher)

III. Spontaneous Generation and the Germ Theory

1. First word (Alex Levine)

2. “On Spontaneous Generation” (Louis Pasteur)

3. “The Germs of Dissent: Louis Pasteur and the Origin of Life” (Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch)

IV. X-rays and N-Rays

1. First word (Alex Levine)

2. “On a New Kind of Rays” (W. C. Röntgen)

3. “Professor Röntgen’s Discovery” (A. A. C. Swinton)

4. “N”-Rays (René Blondlot)

5. “New Light on Old Rays: N Rays” (Robert T. Lagemann)

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