I checked out the web site (http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/); something you will
probably want to do prior to forking out the bucks. I wonder why they've
entitled the periodical Science AS Culture, rather than Science IN Culture or
Science AND Culture?
The list of future articles toward the bottom of the post is quite amusing.
S. Larsen
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'Ecologists as Environmental Consultants' by Richard Emery
'Male Infertility' by Kirsten Dwight
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'The Californian Ideology' by Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron
'The Good, the Bad and the Transgenic' by eather Dietrich
'Psychiatry as Social Control'by Richard Gosden
'The Chances of Losing Your Baby' by Birenbaum-Carmeli & Carmeli
'Reading Biosphere 2' by Megan Stern
'The Social Construction of Farm Pollution' by Philip Lowe and Neil Ward
'Laughing Gas: Democracy without Feeling' by Santiago Colas
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