Scientific Process and Social Issues in Biology Education 1st Edition by Garland E Allen, Jeffrey J W Bake ISBN 331944378X 978-3319443782

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ISBN 10: 331944378X

ISBN 13: 978-3319443782

Author:  Garland E. Allen, Jeffrey J.W. Bake
This book complements fact-drive textbooks in introductory biology courses, or courses in biology and society, by focusing on several important points: (1) Biology as a process of doing science, emphasizing how we know what we know. (2) It stresses the role of science as a social as well as intellectual process, one that is always embedded in its time and place in history.
In dealing with the issue of science as a process, the book introduces students to the elements of inductive and deductive logic, hypothesis formulation and testing, the design of experiments and the interpretation of data. An appendix presents the basics of statistical analysis for students with no background in statistical reasoning and manipulation. Reasoning processes are always illustrated with specific examples from both the past (eighteenth and nineteenth century) as well as the present.
In dealing with science and social issues, this book introduces students to historical, sociological and philosophical issues such as Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigms and paradigm shifts, the social-constructions view of the history of science, as well as political and ethical issues such human experimentation, the eugenics movement and compulsory sterilization, and religious arguments against stem cell research and the teaching of evolution in schools.

Table of contents:

1. Biology as a Process of Inquiry
2. The Nature and Logic of Science
3. The Nature and Logic of Science: Testing Hypotheses
4. Doing Biology: Three Case Studies
5. The Social Context of Science: The Interaction of Science and Society

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