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• 1. Introduction: Evidence in Action Part I: Establishing Evidence: The Formation of Disciplinary Cultures
• 2. War, Wheat, and Crop Diseases of the Late Enlightenment: Contesting and Producing Evidence in Agriculture in Great Britain
• 3. Presenting Chemical Practice in Court: Forensic Toxicology in Nineteenth-Century German States
• 4. No "Mere Accumulation of Material": Fieldwork Practices and Embedded Evidence in Early (Latin) Americanist Anthropology Part II: Innovating Evidence: Contemporary Technoscientific Approaches
• 5. Prototyping Evidence: How Artifacts Demonstrate Technological Futures
• 6. On Top of the Hierarchy: How Guidelines Shape Systematic Reviewing in Biomedicine
• 7. On the (Im)possibility of Identifying the Evidence Base of the Impact of Star Architecture Projects Part III: Governing Evidence: Evidence-Based Practice and Politics
• 8. The Thing We Call Evidence: Toward a Situated Ontology of Evidence in Policy
• 9. "Drawing Thresholds That Make Sense": Diagrammatic Evidence and Urgency in Automatic Outbreak Detection
• 10. Producing Migration Knowledge: From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy? Part IV: Contesting Evidence: The Politics of Heterodox Evidence
• 11. Fearful Narratives: Evidence Production in the Visual Rhetoric of the Historic Anti-vaccine Movement in the German States
• 12. The Politics of Evidence: State Secrecy, Ambiguity, and Counterforensic Practice in "Missing Persons" Cases in Pakistan
• 13. Digital Ethnographic Art(i)Facts as Evidence: Anthropological Entanglements between Techne and Episteme.
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This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge. The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the relative hierarchies between them are a crucial element of the historical and contemporary dynamics of scientific knowledge production. The negotiation of evidence is at the heart of this process. Starting from the premise that evidence constitutes a central, but also essentially contested concept in contemporary knowledge-based societies, this volume focuses on how evidence is generated and applied in practice-in other words, on "evidence in action." The contributions analyze and compare different evidence practices within the field of science and technology, how they interlink with different forms of power, their interaction with and impact on the legal and political domain, and their relationship to other, more heterodox forms of evidence that challenge traditional notions of evidence. In doing so, this volume provides much-needed context and historical background to contemporary debates on the so-called "post-truth" society. Evidence in Action is the perfect resource for all those interested in the relationship between science, technology, and the role of knowledge in society.
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• A new variety : science and technology in the first half of the nineteenth century
• From medicine to chemistry : Wilson's early years
• Unity in variety : Wilson's theology of nature
• Wilson's methodology of science
• The eye and the hand : Wilson's biological view of technology
• Wilson's Industrial Museum
• Epilogue : Victorian science and technology after George Wilson

"This volume is a comprehensive study of George Wilson, a leading advocate for evangelical science and for the role of biology in technology, it examines his work to develop a unitary vision of Victorian science and technology by drawing upon religion, transcendental natural history and Baconian philosophy. George Wilson was the first Professor of Technology at the University of Edinburgh and the founding Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland (now the National Museum of Scotland). Throughout his career he lectured and published on a wide range of topics, including the prospect of life on other planets, the history of science, natural theology, chemistry and poetry. His works were very popular, he was praised by Charles Dickens and his lectures drew large audiences, particularly women. Wilson sought to educate people about the significant scientific and technological developments taking place during the first half of the nineteenth century and create a unitary vision of science and technology"-- Provided by publisher

• Section 1. Policies and approaches of interdisciplinarity between science and mathematics. Chapter 1. Problematising integration in policy and practice ; Chapter 2. Connections between nature and mathematics: the Fibonacci's sequence in the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto ; Chapter 3. An examination of the interdisciplinary connections between physics and mathematics according to secondary education physics curriculum: the case of Turkey ; Chapter 4. Cross-curricular nature of evolutionary biology: a call, perceptions, and teaching approaches
• Section 2. Connections between science and mathematics on educational practices. Chapter 5. Views from Singapore students towards the use of a mathematics-based STEM project to demonstrate their creativity using scientific principles ; Chapter 6. Design and implementation of practical workshops for teaching STEM content: analysis of cognitive and emotional variables ; Chapter 7. Different teaching methods: a step for student motivation ; Chapter 8. Integrated physics learning using an interdisciplinary inquiry learning space: an exploratory study using computer programming ; Chapter 9. Science and mathematics teacher collaboration in higher education: a pedagogical experience using inquiry learning spaces ; Chapter 10. Malthus' principle in the teaching of evolution as an integrative context of science and mathematics in elementary education
• Section 3. Integration of science and mathematics in teacher education. Chapter 11. Integrating science and mathematics in teacher education programs ; Chapter 12. Mathematics in environmental issues: research-based interdisciplinary practices in preservice teacher education ; Chapter 13. Adaptation of the math-biology values instrument to preservice teachers: German, Portuguese, and Spanish versions ; Chapter 14. Primary pre-service teacher changing perspectives about integrated STEAM approach ; Chapter 15. How did the Egyptians transport the stone blocks of the pyramids?: Design of a STEM practice to address the simple machines in initial teacher training

Working in an interdisciplinary manner is long pursued but a difficult goal of science and mathematics education. The interdisciplinarity of science and mathematics can occur when connections between those disciplines are identified and developed. These connections could be expressed in the educational policies, curriculum, or in the science and mathematics teachers' educational practices. Sometimes those connections are scarce, but in other moments, full integration is achieved. The Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinarity Between Science and Mathematics in Education presents results of good practices and interdisciplinary educational approaches in science and mathematics. It presents a broad range of approaches for all educational levels, from kindergarten to university. Covering topics such as computer programming, mathematics in environmental issues, and simple machines, this major reference work is an excellent resource for administrators and educators of both K-12 and higher education, government officials, pre-service teachers, teacher educators, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
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• History of science : a brief overview / Samir K. Saha
• Science, society and governance in colonial India / Deepak Kumar
• Evolution of ideas from Aristotle to Newton : a journey towards the unification of the earth and the heavens / Bichitra Kumar Guha
• History of ancient Indian mathematics / Manjusha Majumdar (Tarafdar)
• Surgery in ancient India and Suśruta-Samhitā / Sudipa Bandyopadhyay
• Dr M.J. Bramley (1803
• 1837) : the first principal of Calcutta Medical College / Sankar Kumar Nath
• The philosophy of science- a brief understanding / Pradip Kumar Ghosh
• Written on the body : agency, representation, deviance / Samantak Das
• A rationale of Aryabhata I's method for solving ax c=by / Pradip Kumar Majumdar
• Death instinct in psychoanalysis / Santanu Biswas
• Origin of life on Earth / Bijan Das
• Unraveling the fascinating world of RNA interference / Akash Mallick and Deepika Pamarthy
• Role of additives and nutrient supplementation for enhancement of somatic embryogenesis in Momordica Charantia L. / Subhasree Das, Anwesh Roy, Sarmistha Sen Raychaudhuri
• Application of cognitive ergonomics in communication : a social perspective / Somnath Gangopadhyay
• Evolutionary trend of ecological concepts, hypothesis and theories : perspectives on biodiversity / Sushanta Kumar Chakraborty.

"This book provides an in-depth analysis of the history and evolution of the major disciplines of science, which include the basic sciences, bioscience, natural sciences and medical science, with special emphasis on the Indian perspective. While academic interest shown in the history and philosophy of science dates back several centuries, serious scholarship on how the sciences and the society interact and influence each other can only be dated back to the 20th Century. This volume explores the ethical and moral issues related to social values, along with the controversies that arise in relation to the discourse of science from the philosophical perspectives. The book sheds light on themes that have proved to have a significant and overwhelming influence on present day civilization. It takes the reader through a journey on how the sciences have developed and have been discussed, to explore key themes like the colonial influences on science; how key scientific ideas have from Aristotle to Newton; history of ancient Indian mathematics; agency, representation, deviance with regards to the human body in science; bioethics; mental health, psychology, and the sciences; setting up of the first teaching departments for subjects such as medicine, ecology and physiology in India; recent research in chemical technology; and even legacy of ancient Indian scientific discoveries. Part of the Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research series, this interdisciplinary work will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, modern history, sociology of medicine, physical sciences, bioscience, chemistry, and medical sciences. It will also be of interest to the general reader"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Method-o-logical Diversity: Seeking Disciplinary Narrations Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas Part I: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: HUMANITIES Introduction to Part I
• 1. Methods in Substantivist Linguistics Probal Dasgupta
• 2. 'If Not Precisely a Science': The Provocations of Literary Studies Sharmila Sreekumar
• 3. Philosophy and Method Sundar Sarukkai Part II: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: NATURAL SCIENCES Introduction to Part II
• 4. The Methods of Mathematics Amber Habib
• 5. Questions of Method: The Philosophy and Practice of Modern Human Genetics Chitra Kannabiran
• 6. Chemistry, Method, Science, and Society: A Conversation Gita Chadha, Ram Ramaswamy and Renny Thomas
• 7. 'Between Clearing and Concealment': Knowledge-making in Physics K. Sridhar Part III: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: SOCIAL SCIENCES Introduction to Part III
• 8. Decolonising Method: Where Do We Stand in Political Studies? Aditya Nigam
• 9. Betwixt And Between?: Anthropology's Engagement with the Sciences and Humanities Kamala Ganesh
• 10. Economics, Feminist Economics, and Women's Studies: Methodological Orientations and Disciplinary Boundaries Neetha N.
• 11. Method, Object, and Praxis: Marx and the Historians of Science Rahul Govind
• 12. Psychology in India: Knowledge, Method, Nation Sabah Siddiqui
• 13. Geography in India: Gendered Concerns and Methodological Issues Saraswati Raju
• 14. Beyond the Postcolonial: Speculations on the Indian Contemporary Yasmeen Arif
• 15. Towards New Ecologies of Method: A Speculative Afterword Sasheej Hegde.
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This volume explores how the scientific method enters and determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic disciplines. It highlights the ways in which practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds -- the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences -- engage with the scientific method in their own disciplines. The book maps the discourse (within each of the disciplines) that critiques the scientific method, from different social locations, in order to argue for more complex and nuanced approaches in methodology. It also investigates the connections between the method and the structures of power and domination which exist within these disciplines. In the process, it offers a new way of thinking about the philosophy of the scientific method. Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this volume is the first of its kind in the South Asian context to debate scientific methods and address questions by scholars based in the global south. It will be useful to students and practitioners of science, humanities, social sciences, philosophy of science, and philosophy of social science. Research scholars from these disciplines, especially those engaging in interdisciplinary research, will also benefit from this volume.
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Histories you can trust. The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient China; from the exchanges between Islamic and Christian scholars in the Middle Ages to the Chinese invention of gunpowder, paper, and the printing press; from the Scientific Revolution of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century. The chapters that follow focus on the increasingly specialized story of science since end of the eighteenth century, covering experimental science in the laboratory from Michael Faraday to CERN; the exploration of nature, from intrepid Victorian explorers to twentieth century primatologists; the mapping of the universe, from the discovery of Uranus to Big Bang theory; the impact of evolutionary ideas, from Lamarck, Darwin, and Wallace to DNA; and the story of theoretical physics, from James Clark Maxwell to Quantum Theory and beyond. A concluding chapter reflects on how scientists have communicated their work to a wider public, from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the internet in the early twenty-first century.
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An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds This book studies later eighteenth-century medicine, aesthetics, and poetics as overlapping forms of knowledge increasingly concerned about the relationship between the geographical movements of persons displaced from home and the physiological or nervous "motions" within their bodies and minds. Looking beyond familiar narratives about medicine and art's shared therapeutic and harmonizing ideals, this book explores Enlightenment and Romantic-era aesthetics and poetics in relation to a central but less well known area of eighteenth-century environmental medicine: pathology. No mere system of diagnosis or classification, philosophical pathology was an art of interpretation, offering sophisticated ways of reading the multiple conditions and causes of disease, however absent from perception, in their palpable, embodied effects. For medical, anthropological, environmental, and literary authors alike, it helped to locate the dislocations of modern mobility when a full view of their causes and conditions remained imperfectly understood or still unfolding. Goodman traces the surprising afterlife of the period's exemplary but unexplained pathology of motion, medical nostalgia, within aesthetic theory and poetics, arguing that nostalgia persisted there not as a named condition but as a set of formal principles and practices, perturbing claims about the harmony, freedom, and free play of the mind.
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